Grape-Nuts Grape-Nuts Grape-Nuts is a breakfast cereal developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. The cereal originally prepared by C. W. Post when developing the product was a batter that came from the oven as a rigid sheet. He then broke the sheet into pieces and ran them through a coffee grinder to produce the "nut"-sized kernels. Despite the name, the cereal contains neither grapes nor nuts; it is made with wheat and barley. Post believed that glucose (which he called "grape sugar") formed in
Bronner (grape) of "Vitis amurensis" in its pedigree, but despite this, Bronner is usually not considered to be a hybrid grape. In 1983, Bronner was crossed with Cabernet Sauvignon to create the white wine grape Souvignier gris. In 1996 the red wine grape Divico was obtained through a natural cross of Gamaret with Bronner. The only synonyms of Bronner are FR 250-75 or Freiburg 250-75. Confusingly, Bronner is also used as the name of an open pollination variant of Pinot blanc. The Pinot blanc-related Bronner, which is not the same variety as the 1975 German crossing, is known under the synonyms Weiße