Editing Breakfast cereal (section)

===Early developments===
The first cold breakfast cereal, [[Granula]] (not to be confused with [[granola]]), was invented in the United States in 1863 by [[James Caleb Jackson]], operator of Our Home on the Hillside which was later replaced by the [[Jackson Sanatorium]] in [[Dansville, Livingston County, New York|Dansville, New York]]. The cereal never became popular, due to the inconvenient necessity of tenderizing the heavy bran and graham nuggets{{clarify|date=February 2025}} by soaking them overnight.<ref>{{cite web|title=Breakfast Cereal Beginnings|publisher=CyberPalate LLC|url=http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/breakfast/cereal.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624075408/http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/breakfast/cereal.shtml|archive-date=24 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="Food and Nutrition">{{cite book|title=Food and Nutrition / Editorial Advisers, Dayle Hayes, Rachel Laudan, Volume 2|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sIQQ6plTd6QC&pg=PA191 |isbn=9780761478218|year=2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Firsts: Origins of Everyday Things That Changed the World|publisher=Penguin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXT0MyOjhnIC&pg=PT35 |isbn=9781101159460|date=6 October 2009}}</ref>

George H. Hoyt created [[Wheatena]] circa 1879, during an era when retailers would typically buy cereal (the most popular being cracked [[wheat]], [[oatmeal]], and [[cerealine]]) in barrel lots, and scoop it out to sell by the pound to customers. Hoyt, who had found a distinctive process of preparing wheat for cereal, sold his cereal in boxes, offering consumers a more sanitary and consumer-friendly option.<ref name="century">[http://www.homestatfarm.com/MemoryLane/ACenturyofWheatena/tabid/3012/Default.aspx "A Century of Wheatena"], HomeStatFarm.com</ref><ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cool:@field(DOCID+@lit(lg0573)) "The Golden Heart of the Wheat"] chapter, [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?coolbib:1:./temp/~ammem_WqKP:: ''The Story of a Pantry Shelf: An Outline History of Grocery Specialties'' (Butterick Publishing, New York, c. 1925], pp. 219–21. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101205160541/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem%2Fcool%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28lg0573%29%29 WebCitation archive].</ref>