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
Muscat (grape) a crossing between one Muscat variety, ""Muscat d'Eisenstadt"" (also known as ""Muscat de Saumur""), with the Swiss wine grape "Chasselas" "Muscat blanc à Petits Grains" has been identified as one of the parent grapes of several varieties, though with which crossing partner is currently unknown. These include the Italian wine grapes "Aleatico", "Moscato Giallo" (Yellow Moscato), "Moscato rosa del Trentino" (Pink Moscato of Trentino) and "Moscato di Scanzo". DNA analysis was able to identify the Tuscan wine grape "Mammolo" as the second parent variety that crossed with "Muscat blanc à Petits Grains" to produce "Muscat rouge de Madère" (Red Muscat