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# The Magic of Grape Nuts
- URL: https://bklyner.com/the-magic-of-grape-nuts-southslope/
- Published: 2012-12-05T14:38:31.000Z
- Updated: 2012-12-05T14:38:31.000Z
- Author: Christine Bush
- Tags: 1902, ads, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Cereal, Cure, Grape Nuts, #API-Imported

![via Mr. Breakfast](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Grape-Nuts.jpg)

Ah, [Grape Nuts](http://www.postfoods.com/cereals/grape-nuts/?ref=bklyner.com). You can eat them cold, hot, dry, in a smoothie….it’s quite the Renaissance cereal. Did you know, though, that the tiny whole-grain nuggets also have mystical healing powers?

According to an ad published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on this day in 1902, the cereal is a [miracle cure](http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=BEagle&BaseHref=BEG/1902/12/05&PageLabelPrint=&EntityId=Ar00208&ViewMode=GIF&GZ=T&ref=bklyner.com) for whooping cough.

> I shall always believe that divine inspiration whispered ‘Grape Nuts.’ At first I did not give the solid part: I poured boiling water on it and let it stand until the water had drawn out some of the strength, added some rich, sweet cream, and gave the little one a few spoonfuls at a time. She kept it down and it nourished her, so that after a while I could feed her the Grape Nuts themselves until she got strong and she is to-day as rugged as I could wish.

Who needs doctors? The world has Grape Nuts.

Photo via [Mr. Breakfast](http://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal%5Fucp%5Fslideshow.asp?id=175&picid=979&ref=bklyner.com)