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Corn flakes are a popular breakfast cereal
Breakfast cereal

A breakfast cereal is a Fast moving consumer goods food product intended to be consumed as part of a breakfast. It is usually eaten cold as a ready-to-eat meal and mixed with a liquid, such as milk or water, though occasionally Nut and fruit are also added....
 originally manufactured by Kellogg's through the treatment of corn
Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
.

Cereals derived from cornflakes
A former patient of the Battle Creek Sanitarium named C. W. Post
C. W. Post

Charles William Post also known as C.W. Post, was an United States breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry....
 started a rival company, as well as the major other brand of corn flakes in the United States, called Post Toasties
Post Toasties

Post Toasties is an United States breakfast cereal that is made by Post Cereals. It is named for its originator C. W. Post. It is the Post version of corn flakes, popularized by Kellogg Company....
. In the UK, the main brand rival is Sunblest Cornflakes. Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
's Sanitarium
Sanitarium Health Food Company

The Sanitarium Health Food Company is a food company in Australia and New Zealand that produces a large range of Breakfast cereal as well as a range of vegetarian products....
 also manufactures their own brand of corn flakes called Skippy corn flakes.






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Corn flakes are a popular breakfast cereal
Breakfast cereal

A breakfast cereal is a Fast moving consumer goods food product intended to be consumed as part of a breakfast. It is usually eaten cold as a ready-to-eat meal and mixed with a liquid, such as milk or water, though occasionally Nut and fruit are also added....
 originally manufactured by Kellogg's through the treatment of corn
Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
.

Cereals derived from cornflakes


A former patient of the Battle Creek Sanitarium named C. W. Post
C. W. Post

Charles William Post also known as C.W. Post, was an United States breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry....
 started a rival company, as well as the major other brand of corn flakes in the United States, called Post Toasties
Post Toasties

Post Toasties is an United States breakfast cereal that is made by Post Cereals. It is named for its originator C. W. Post. It is the Post version of corn flakes, popularized by Kellogg Company....
. In the UK, the main brand rival is Sunblest Cornflakes. Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
's Sanitarium
Sanitarium Health Food Company

The Sanitarium Health Food Company is a food company in Australia and New Zealand that produces a large range of Breakfast cereal as well as a range of vegetarian products....
 also manufactures their own brand of corn flakes called Skippy corn flakes. In addition there are many generic brands of corn flakes produced by various manufacturers.

Variations

Frosted Flakes
Frosted Flakes

Frosted Flakes is a breakfast cereal first introduced by Kellogg Company. consisting of corn flakes "frosted" or coated with sugar. The "Frosted Flakes" name is used by Kellogg's in United States and Canada; elsewhere, it known by the following names:...
 (or Frosties in the UK, Commonwealth of Nations and EU countries) were introduced by Kelloggs in 1952 with Tony the Tiger
Tony the Tiger

Tony the Tiger is the advertising cartoon mascot for Kellogg Company's Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal, appearing on its packaging and advertising....
 as a mascot. These are essentially corn flakes with a sugar coating.

In 1983, Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes were introduced, the base flakes being the same, but coated with honey and peanut pieces.

In the 2000s some variations on "plain" Corn flakes were introduced, such as Corn Flakes with chocolate, berries, Honey Oat Corn Flakes and Wholewheat Corn Flakes.

Ingredients


Kellogg's Corn Flakes
  • Milled Corn
    Maize

    Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
  • Sugar
    Sugar

    Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
  • Malt
    Malt

    Malting is a process applied to cereal grains, in which the grains are made to germinate by soaking in water and are then quickly halted from germinating further by drying/heating with hot air....
     flavor
    Flavor

    Flavor or flavour is the sensory impression of a food or other chemical substance, and is determined mainly by the chemical senses of taste and olfaction....
    ing
  • High fructose corn syrup
    High fructose corn syrup

    High-fructose corn syrup ? called isoglucose in Europe and glucose-fructose in Canada ? comprises any of a group of corn syrups that has undergone enzymatic processing to increase its fructose content, and then been mixed with pure corn syrup ....
  • Salt
    Salt

    A salt, in chemistry, is defined as the product formed from the neutralisation reaction of acids and base . Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically electric charge ....
  • Iron
    Iron

    Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
  • Niacinamide
    Nicotinamide

    Nicotinamide, also known as niacinamide and nicotinic acid amide, is the amide of nicotinic acid . Nicotinamide is a water-soluble vitamin and is part of the B vitamins group....
  • Sodium ascorbate and ascorbic acid
    Ascorbic acid

    Ascorbic acid is a sugar acid with antioxidant properties. Its appearance is white to light-yellow crystals or powder. It is water-soluble. The L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid is commonly known as vitamin C....
     (vitamin C
    Vitamin C

    Vitamin C or ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient for humans, a large number of simian species, a small number of other mammalian species , a few species of birds, and some fish....
    )
  • Pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6
    Vitamin B6

    Vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin and is part of the vitamin B complex group. Pyridoxal phosphate is the active form and is a cofactor in many reactions of amino acid metabolism, including transamination, deamination, and decarboxylation....
    )
  • Riboflavin
    Riboflavin

    Riboflavin , also known as vitamin B2, is an easily absorbed micronutrient with a key role in maintaining health in humans and animals....
     (vitamin B2)
  • Thiamin hydrochloride
    Thiamine

    'Thiamine', or 'thiamin', sometimes called aneurin, is a water-soluble vitamin of the B complex , whose phosphate derivatives are involved in many cellular processes....
     (vitamin B1)
  • Vitamin A palmitate
  • Folic acid
    Folic acid

    Folic acid and Folate are forms of the water-soluble B vitamins. Vitamin B9 is essential to numerous bodily functions ranging from nucleotide synthesis to the remethylation of homocysteine....
  • Vitamin B12
    Vitamin B12

    Vitamin B12 is a water soluble vitamin with a key role in the normal functioning of the brain and nervous system, and for the formation of blood....
  • Vitamin D
    Vitamin D

    Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble prohormones, the two major forms of which are vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 . The term vitamin D also refers to metabolites and other analogues of these substances....
  • Vitamin B


See also


  • Kelloggs
  • Will Keith Kellogg
    Will Keith Kellogg

    Will Keith Kellogg, usually referred to as W.K. Kellogg was an United States industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company, which to this day produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals....
  • John Harvey Kellogg
    John Harvey Kellogg

    John Harvey Kellogg was an United States medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan, who ran a Sanatorium using holistic medicine methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise....
  • Corn
    Maize

    Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....