Triticum compactum erinaceum shallow. Its cheeks are usually angular. "T. compactum erinaceum" was grown alongside other species of wheat by Jesuit Monks in Monterey County California during the late eighteenth century. "T. comactum erinaceum" was presumed extinct after 1822, but proved to exist when in the summer of 1917 when it was rediscovered by E. F. Gaines, of the Washington Agricultural Experiment Station growing in the vicinity of May View, Washington. Again In 1929 "T. compactum erinaceum" was reported to be growing, in Douglas County, Oregon, on 322 acres. Triticum compactum erinaceum Triticum compactum erinaceum, also called California Club Wheat or Mayview wheat,
Life (cereal) Original Life has been reformulated several times since its introduction, sometimes unsuccessfully. Most recently, in 1997, Quaker introduced a "New and Improved" version; consumer response was unfavorable and Quaker quickly reverted to the original formula. In 2010, Life was featured on the "Eat This, Not That" website. It was categorized as a healthy cereal but was criticized for its content of the yellow food dye "Yellow 5", or tartrazine. The original cereal also contains disodium phosphate, the preservative BHT, yellow 6, and pyridoxine hydrochloride. Life (cereal) Life, stylized as life®, is a breakfast cereal formerly made solely of whole grain