Why is that stuff we eat for breakfast called cereal ?

Answer 1

Cereal is any type of grains (like wheat, rice, maize), and your breakfast food is made of these. Older breakfast cereals were much less sweet (think, corn flakes and oatmeal) but as times went on people added more and more sugars and flavorings to our food.

Answer 2

The Battle Creek Sanitarium in the 1860's was a getaway, for people trying to get on track with healthy living. The association wanted to promote healthier eating for it's patience, and developed oats in milk, which was later marketed by Dr. Kellogg. Who discovered that the 'cereal' would last longer if boiled and left to soften. He accidently discovered corn flakes this way.
The Term 'cereal' means, -A grass such as wheat, corn, or oat;the starch of the grain that is edible. That is scientificly known as cereal. Cereal is a marketable term used to get people to buy the product.

Answer 3

cereal
Origin: 1899

If it comes in a colorful cardboard box, if it is poured into a bowl and doused with milk, if it snaps, crackles, and pops, if it provides fiber and a substantial part of the day's nutritional needs, and if it is advertised all over the Saturday morning cartoons, it must be cereal. Or so we think nowadays, thanks to the work of America's nutritional pioneers a century ago.

The word for today's divine breakfast treat has a divine origin: Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture. Her name was invoked by English scientists and officials in the nineteenth century when they wanted a dignified, poetic word for "grain." So when Charles Darwin in 1868 wrote about "the slow and gradual improvement of our cereals," he was referring not to the development of breakfast food but to the development of domesticated grain.

It was Americans, however, who transformed plain grain into the modern miracle breakfast cereal. During the nineteenth century, the American aspiration for moral perfection and scientific improvement began to include the food we ate. The whole country seemed to suffer from dyspepsia (1706), and dietary as well as spiritual reformers gathered in the little city of Battle Creek, Michigan, hoping to cure the problem. Notable among them was Dr. J. H. Kellogg, who founded a Health Reform Institute there in 1866, and his son W. K. Kellogg, who developed methods of preparing grain that became cereal as we know it today. The plain cereals were wholesome food, but not particularly appetizing to meat-eating Americans. So to make them more digestible and tasty, W. K. rolled out the grains and toasted them.

By 1899 Americans were using cereal to refer to these processed and packaged grains. An advertisement in the Chicago Daily News in May of that year offered "Free with 6 packages of Hazel Cereals, any assortment, a handsomely decorated tea canister." Later inventors added milk and sugar to the cereals, fortified cereals with vitamins (1912), gave them new shapes, textures, and colors, put premiums in their packages, and topped them off with celebrity testimonials.

Answer 4

Grain foods (wheat, oats etc.) are called "cereal" after the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres. It was hard to explain the discovery that seeds from these crops, harder than wood, could be boiled to make porridge and fermented to make beer or bread, so they said that knowledge was a gift from Ceres.
In many cultures, the cereal crops are the most important because they could be grown in fairly dry soil and could be stored for years.

Answer 5

Cereal.

Answer 6

Well, it was once predominantly composed of barley, maize, oats or wheat. Some brands still are. These crops are collectively known as cereals.

Answer 7

It's a lot of sugar, with a little bit of some kind of grain. It's called that by it's name, ce real? Means it's not real nutritious. It's not a real meal fit for anyone.

Answer 8

it's yummy!