Since 2007, all Shredded Wheat is made at Staverton, Wiltshire, [8] and the Welwyn Garden City site was shut in 2008. Since January 2008, Canadian-produced (plant in Belleville, Ontario) Mini-Wheats are available in Canada and are imported into the US.

Despite being listed in the National Historic Register in 1974, the Buffalo Avenue plant was demolished in 1976. In 1993, Nabisco sold the brand to Kraft General Foods, but it was still under the Nabisco name until 1999, whereupon it was sold under the slogan "Nabisco brought to you by Post. The tall concrete cereal silos that formed part of the factory are a local landmark and are listed structures. This may affect nutrition and allergen information therefore you should always check product labels and not rely solely on the information presented here. Add Kellogg's Wheats to your morning routine and try our line of Kellogg's Wheats flavours: Wheats Apricot Cereal, Wheats Blueberry Cereal, and Plain Wheats cereal.You’ll receive our weekly news round-up and be the first to hear about, product launches, exclusive offers and more! Food giant Kellogg’s has been slammed after vegans discover its frosted wheat cereals contain beef gelatin.

However, on a day-to-day basis, cereals are one of the most popular breakfast options because of their nutritional benefits and ease of preparation. In 2011, Kelloggs introduced Frosted Mini-Wheats with Fruit in the Middle, which features strawberries and blueberries in the center. In the United Kingdom, the Shredded Wheat brand is owned by Cereal Partners, a Nestlé/ General Mills company, although there are many generic versions and variants by different names. Food and Drink in American History: A "Full Course" Encyclopedia [3 Volumes]: A "Full Course" Encyclopedia.Butterfield, Richard J: The Industrial Archaeology of the Twentieth Century: The Shredded Wheat Factory at Welwyn Garden City in Industrial Archaeology Review: Volume 16 (1994), page 196 ff. Perky first sold his shredded wheat cereal to vegetarian restaurants in 1892, distributing it from a factory in Niagara Falls, New York. United States production of Shredded Wheat moved to Naperville, Illinois, in 1954, where it is still made. Alternatively, if your Frosted Mini-Wheats come from a different manufacturer, or you use a different type of milk, you can find the nutritional information for them on the United States Department of Agriculture food database. The Supreme Court ruled that shredded wheat was generic and not trademarkable; and that in any case, when the first patent for shredded wheat machinery expired in 1912, the right to apply the name "shredded wheat" to the product passed into the public domain along with that patent.

The problem, as journalist Michael Moss recounts in his book Salt Sugar Fat, was that the clinical study the ads referenced — a study paid for by Kellogg, by the way — didn't actually support that claim. Premiering to the public at Chicago's World Columbian Exposition in 1893, [4] shredded wheat cereal was then manufactured by The Natural Food Company in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1901. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article.Not only do they taste great, Kellogg's Frosted Wheats are low in saturated fat and sodium making this a breakfast cereal you can feel good about. Instead, it will be limited to statements such as, "Clinical studies have shown that kids who eat a filling breakfast like Frosted Mini-Wheats have an 11 percent better attentiveness in school than kids who skip breakfast. We adjust the recipe for our products from time to time; and therefore we recommend that you always check the ingredient lists and nutrition declarations on the packs of all our products prior to purchase to determine product information. Henry Perky invented shredded wheat cereal in Denver, Colorado, in 1890, as well as founding the "Cereal Machine Company". These are similar to the original Strawberry Mini-Wheats that Kellogg's sold in the 1990s which contained strawberry filling in the middle, as well as Raisin Squares and its successor Mini-Wheats Raisin, and Fruit Wheats, a variant of Nabisco Shredded Wheat made in the 1980s.