Breakfast cereal history: Identify who first made corn flakes. Full question: CORN FLAKES — Who made them first? Choose the correct option.

Difficulty: Easy

The Kellogg brothers (John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg)
C. W. Post
Henry Nestlé
Marjorie Merriweather Post

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).

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