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Supermarkets carry dozens of brands in their cereal aisles, from the sugary and candy-like to high-fiber organic products. One of them has been available for 125 years, an early entrant in the cereal business.
On this date in 1893, Denver restaurant owner Henry Perky received a patent for a “Machine for the Preparation of Cereals for Food.” That food was shredded wheat. By 1901, he had set up an ultra-modern plant at Niagara Falls to make shredded wheat, and the falls became the familiar logo of the cereal, which continues as a Nabisco product.
Nationwide today, there are 87 breakfast cereal manufacturing establishments, employing over 13,000 workers in the $9.4 billion annual business.
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