From The Food Encyclopedia by Jacques Rolland and Carol Sherman
A cereal whose primary ingredients are rolled oats, oat bran, honey, dried fruit and nuts, although numerous varieties are sold on the market today. Originally developed by John Harvey Kellogg in 1876 as part of a vegetarian regime focused on whole grains, its original name was Granula, which wasn't actually original. It belonged to a whole grain product developed a decade earlier. On being sued, Kellogg changed the name to granola, but it never really caught on. Kellogg and his brother, William Keith, are best known for inventing Cornflakes in 1902, but it wasn't until the 1960s that granola reappeared, with the addition of dried fruits and nuts, responding to a burgeoning health food craze.
