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Grape-Nuts is a brand of breakfast cereal made from flour, salt and dried yeast, developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Post's original product was baked as a rigid sheet, then broken into pieces and run through a coffee grinder.
A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured him asking viewers, "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." While he recommended Grape Nuts over pine trees (including the oft-repeated quote that Grape Nuts' taste reminded him "of wild hickory nuts"), the commercials gained attention and fueled Gibbons's celebrity status.
Year Introduced: 1897 Once a patient of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s — one of the brothers behind cereal behemoth Kellogg’s — C.W. Post became a competitor, developing Grape-Nuts cereal.
Still, cereal is actually losing ground to other breakfast options such as smoothies and bars that are healthier and contain more protein, food industry analyst Phil Lempert told TODAY in 2023.
According to the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, no more than 10 percent of your daily caloric intake should come from added sugars (so, 200 calories or 50 grams of sugar per day on a ...
Little Mikey in the original 1972 Life cereal ad. Little Mikey is a fictional boy played by John Gilchrist (born February 2, 1968) in an American television commercial promoting Quaker Oats' breakfast cereal Life. The ad was created by art director Bob Gage, who also directed the commercial. [1] It first aired in 1972. The popular ad campaign ...
The actor, 73, recently joined ... specifically Product 19 cereal. “I was in a commercial in the backyard eating cereal, which, that never happened,” he joked with Ripa, 54, and Consuelos, 53 ...
Colon Blow — In a parody of high-fiber cereal ads (notably Total and its "how many bowls" campaign), an off-screen voice tells cereal eater Phil Hartman he will need 30,000 bowls of his usual cereal to equal the fiber content in a single bowl of Colon Blow (2.5 million to equal Super Colon Blow, which is also promoted here). When the large ...