Breakfast cereal history: Identify who first made corn flakes. Full question: CORN FLAKES — Who made them first? Choose the correct option.
General Knowledge
Inventions
Difficulty: Easy
Choose an option
Answer
Correct Answer: The Kellogg brothers (John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg)
Explanation
Story & timeline
- In the 1890s at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, John Harvey Kellogg and his brother Will Keith Kellogg developed toasted corn flakes, which W. K. Kellogg later commercialized (Kellogg Company founded 1906).
Why others are incorrect C. W. Post made competing cereals (e.g., Grape-Nuts). Nestlé/Post family were not originators of corn flakes.
Final Answer The Kellogg brothers (John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg).