Puffed Wheat
Breakfast Science
 
Local inventor Alexander P. Anderson developed a process for puffing wheat grains. This process was patented and sold to what would become the Quaker Oats Company, which marketed it as a breakfast cereal. Puffed wheat and puffed rice are still sold on store shelves today.
Milestones
 



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