INTRODUCTION:
For my Heritage Fair project I picked Shredded Wheat because it’s one of my favorite cereals. Did you know that Shredded Wheat was made in Canada? It was manufactured by a food company called National Food Company (NFC) in Niagara Falls Ontario. The cereal is branded with Post Brand.
ABOUT THE PLANT:
The plant like building is five stories tall and the locals called it “a Palace of Light”. The building has many windows to let light into the plant, this is why the locals gave the building that name. According to Niagara Falls and Shredded Wheat website it says the plant was cleaned more than 1,000 times and workers were treated very well. The plant produced free lunch for the workers, and had a great air conditioning system, and the workers got an hour a week to have a shower in the work rest rooms. That’s why this slogan was on every box produced said “The Cleanest, Finest, Most Hygienic Food factory in the World.”
HISTORY: …show more content…
Henry Perky and William Henry Ford made a device that pressed the wheat into little shredded like pieces. Perky and his brother created a machine company to make small hand-operated machines that could be used to make wheat biscuits at home. Henry Perky decided to open a restaurant where he would promote the shredded wheat in everything including potatoes and coffee. After Perky realized that he had an opportunity in not just to make the handheld machines but his own “Shredded Wheat/ Wheat biscuit.” In 1904, he established three plants in the USA but Perky owned the one in Niagara Falls, Ontario called the Canadian Shredded Wheat Company. After 100 years, Original Shredded Wheat still has only ONE ingredient, whole-grain Canadian
For my Heritage Fair project I picked Shredded Wheat because it’s one of my favorite cereals. Did you know that Shredded Wheat was made in Canada? It was manufactured by a food company called National Food Company (NFC) in Niagara Falls Ontario. The cereal is branded with Post Brand.
ABOUT THE PLANT:
The plant like building is five stories tall and the locals called it “a Palace of Light”. The building has many windows to let light into the plant, this is why the locals gave the building that name. According to Niagara Falls and Shredded Wheat website it says the plant was cleaned more than 1,000 times and workers were treated very well. The plant produced free lunch for the workers, and had a great air conditioning system, and the workers got an hour a week to have a shower in the work rest rooms. That’s why this slogan was on every box produced said “The Cleanest, Finest, Most Hygienic Food factory in the World.”
HISTORY: …show more content…
Henry Perky and William Henry Ford made a device that pressed the wheat into little shredded like pieces. Perky and his brother created a machine company to make small hand-operated machines that could be used to make wheat biscuits at home. Henry Perky decided to open a restaurant where he would promote the shredded wheat in everything including potatoes and coffee. After Perky realized that he had an opportunity in not just to make the handheld machines but his own “Shredded Wheat/ Wheat biscuit.” In 1904, he established three plants in the USA but Perky owned the one in Niagara Falls, Ontario called the Canadian Shredded Wheat Company. After 100 years, Original Shredded Wheat still has only ONE ingredient, whole-grain Canadian