Lester Borchardt passed away on Sunday the 24th in Minneapolis,MN. The former General Mills Inventor was 99 years old. Borchardt will be remembered as the father of arguably the most well known cereal of them all, Cheerios.

He was an inventor that held 11 patents on inventions spanning several industries. It was in 1941 when Borchardt developed the idea for a puffed cereal like Cheerios (originally named Cheerioats). Often labeled a genius by his co-workers, he also helped create the process to fortify milk with Vitamin-D.

His daughter said he ate a bowl a Cheerios almost every single morning of his life. CerealBlogger is indeed saddened by this loss, and the fact he didn’t get to see triple digits. With his death Lester Borchardt proved one last thing, that a bowl of Cheerios in the morning can do no harm.

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