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 natural crossing of "Muscat blanc à Petits Grains" and a black-skinned table grape variety from the Greek islands known as "Axina de Tres Bias". Rarely seen outside of Greece, "Axina de Tres Bias" (also known as ""Heftakilo"") is also grown in Malta and Sardinia. "Muscat blanc à Petits Grains" and Muscat of Alexandria, themselves, have crossed and have produced at least 14 different grape varieties, 5 of which are mostly cultivated in South America and 9 still found in Italy though none are of major use in wine production. More notable and widely planted offspring have come from "Muscat