Grape-Nuts

Grape-Nuts

Grape-Nuts is a breakfast cereal developed by C. W. Post in 1897. Post was a patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Neither grapes nor nuts have ever been ingredients in the cereal. The original formula for Grape-Nuts called for grape sugar, which is composed mostly of glucose unlike most other sugar sources and food sweeteners which are principally sucrose. This, combined with the "nutty" flavor of the cereal inspired its name. Another explanation originates from employees at Post who claim that the cereal got its name due to the cereal's resemblance to grape seeds or grape "nuts".

Marketing

Grape-Nuts was initially marketed as a natural cereal that could enhance health and vitality, and also as a "brain food." Its lightweight and compact nature, nutritional value, and resistance to spoilage made it a popular food for exploration and expedition groups in the 1920s and 1930s. Just before World War II, Grapenuts were included as a component of the lightweight Jungle ration used by some U.S. and Allied forces in wartime operations before 1944. [Kearny, Cresson H. (Major), "Jungle Snafus...And Remedies", Oregon Institute (1996), pp. 290-291]

During the 1960s, advertising for the brand promoted Grape-Nuts as the cereal that "fills you up, not out." Brand users, particularly "mother/daughter look-alikes," were shown engaged in fitness activities such as tennis, horseback riding, skiing, and swimming.

This ad campaign produced at least one television commercial featuring a "catch-phrase" that became a target for numerous sketches, comics, riffs, and take-offs in other media. Spanning the ensuing two decades, "Oh no, Mrs. Burke! I thought you were Dale!" was parodied in the film The Kentucky Fried Movie and continued to appear in comedy. This line is remembered today by most who saw the 1968 through 1970 commercial, while it is also familiar to many people too young to have seen the original TV spots.

An ad campaign following the above utilized a similarly catchy phrase, as Euell Gibbons became the spokesperson for the brand, promoting Grape-Nuts as the "Back to Nature Cereal." The line, "Ever eat a pine tree?", proved to draw increased attention to the product from consumers, as well as from comedians of all sorts.

Grape-Nuts is credited with being the first widespread product to use a coupon in sales promotion when C.W. Post Company offered a penny-off coupon to get people to try their cereal in the late 1890s.

Ingredients

Whole Grain Wheat Flour, Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Salt, Dried Yeast.

ee also

* Granula

References

Bibliography

* Jones, Evan (1981) "American Food: The Gastronomic Story", Random House, Inc. ISBN 0-394-74646-5

External links

* [http://www.nograpesnonuts.com No Grapes No Nuts site]
* [http://www.grapenuts.com Grape-Nuts site]
* [http://www.kraftfoods.com Kraft Foods Inc.]
* [http://food.gusni.com/recipes/cereal/Grape_Nuts_Cereal.html How To Make Grape Nuts Cereal At Home]
* [http://graphic-design.tjs-labs.com/gallery-view?product=grape%25nuts Gallery of classic graphic design featuring Grape-Nuts cereals.]
* [http://BurkesGrapeNuts.com Burke Family Grape-Nuts TV Commercial Archives]


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