Granola
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Granola is a food consisting of
Granola is sometimes taken when
History
The names Granula and Granola were registered trademarks in the late 19th century United States for foods consisting of sweetened whole grain products crumbled and then baked until crisp. The name is now a trademark only in Australia and New Zealand. However, the use of the term granola in Australia was clarified in 2012 when Sanitarium Health foods alleged trade mark infringement by Irrewarra sourdough when using the word granola on their product labels. It was concluded by the Federal Court of Australia that the word granola had become common place and could not infringe Sanitarium's right to the term when used to describe the product itself, rather than as a trade mark.[1]
Granula was invented in Dansville, New York by Dr. James Caleb Jackson at the Jackson Sanitarium in 1863.[2] The Jackson Sanitarium was a prominent health spa that operated into the early 20th century on the hillside overlooking Dansville. It was also known as Our Home on the Hillside; thus the company formed to sell Jackson's cereal was known as the Our Home Granula Company. Granula was composed of Graham flour and was similar to an oversized form of Grape-Nuts. A similar cereal was developed by John Harvey Kellogg. It too was initially known as Granula, but the name was changed to Granola to avoid legal problems with Jackson.[3]
The food and name were revived in the 1960s, and fruits and nuts were added to it to make it a
Another major promoter was Layton Gentry, profiled in Time as "Johnny Granola-Seed".[5] In 1964, Gentry sold the rights to a granola recipe using oats, which he claimed to have invented himself, to Sovex Natural Foods for $3,000. The company was founded in 1953 in Holly, Michigan by the Hurlinger family with the main purpose of producing a concentrated paste of brewers yeast and soy sauce known as "Sovex". Earlier in 1964, it had been bought by John Goodbrad and moved to Collegedale, Tennessee. In 1967, Gentry bought back the rights for west of the Rockies for $1,500 and then sold the west coast rights to Wayne Schlotthauer of Lassen Foods in Chico, California, for $18,000.[5] Lassen was founded from a health food bakery run by Schlotthauer's father-in-law.[6]
In 1969, during
In 1972, an executive at
Granola bar
Granola bars (or muesli bars) have become popular as a snack, similar to the traditional flapjack familiar in the British Isles and Newfoundland. Granola bars consist of granola mixed with honey or other sweetened syrup, pressed and baked into a bar shape, resulting in the production of a more convenient snack. The product is most popular in the United States,[17] Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, parts of southern Europe, Brazil, Israel, South Africa, and Japan.
Matzo granola
Matzo granola is a breakfast food eaten by some
Notes
- ^ Australian Health & Nutrition Association Limited trading as Sanitarium Health Food Company v Irrewarra Estate Pty Ltd trading as Irrewarra Sourdough [2012] FCA 592; 292 ALR 101
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- ^ a b Time 1972
- ^ a b Klein 1978
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- ^ Recipe for Passover matzo granola Archived 2018-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, Boston Globe, 18 April 2016
References
- Klein, Joe (February 23, 1978). "A Social History of Granola". Rolling Stone. No. 259. pp. 40–44.
- Bruce, Scott; Crawford, Bill (1995). Cerealizing America: The Unsweetened Story of American Breakfast Cereal. pp. 8, 21, 243–246.