
Corn flakes, also known as cornflakes, are a breakfast cereal made from toasting corn flakes (maize). Will Kellogg invented the cereal, which was originally made with wheat, in 1894 for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where he worked alongside his brother John Kellogg, the superintendent.
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