A.P. Anderson | MinneHistory
6th Grade – 8th Grade
9th Grade – 12th Grade
English
Learn about AP Anderson, a Minnesota scientist who revolutionized breakfast by inventing puffed grain cereal through an unexpected “cannon” experiment. Growing up on a farm with Swedish immigrant parents, he studied agriculture and food science. His discovery of how to “puff” cereals by shooting them through a cannon revolutionized the food industry and changed breakfast in America forever.
