Thanks,

Bruce

On Sat 19 Feb 2005 06:21:19a, Bruce K. wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
>

"Muesli" was developed in the late 19th century by Dr. Bircher-Benner, a
Swiss doctor and nutritionist.

"Granola" is an American invention that has its roots in cereal products like
Grape Nuts. The modern version was developed in the 1960s during the health
food movement of the "hippies".

Muesli generally has less sugar than granola, but many variations of both
exist, almost of all which contain whole grains, dried fruit, and nuts.

Wayne

"Bruce K." > wrote in message
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In my experience, muesli isn't toasted and granola generally is.
Muesli also tends to retain most of its health benefits; granola is so
sugar- and fat-saturated (in one form or another) that it's no longer
healthy.
-j

Bruce K. wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> Bruce


Meusli is Swiss so therefore is very xenophobic and inward - looking.

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Greg

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:21:19 -0500, Bruce K.
> wrote:

>Thanks,
>
>Bruce

Muesli is a loose mixture of uncooked healthy stuff meant to be eaten
as a cereal with milk, whereas granola is usually held together with a
binding agent and baked, forming clusters.

Hey, I just found this...
The history of granola
http://www.foodreference.com/html/artgranola.html

A snippet:
>So, to sum up. Sylvester Graham develops Graham
> flour and Graham Crackers; later, Dr. James C.
>Jackson uses sheets of baked Graham flour, broken
> up, rebaked and broken up again to create "Granula".
>Then Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a Seventh Day
>Adventist and director of their Battle Creek Sanitarium,
> develops a mix of baked and rebaked whole grains,
> and also calls it "Granula"; is sued by Dr. Jackson,
> renames it Granola, but fails to market it and it never
> becomes a success. Along comes Charles W. Post,
> a patient at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, leaves uncured,
> gets cured by a rival religious system follower, opens
>his own health retreat, and makes his own Granola recipe,
> but calls it Grape Nuts and makes it commercially
>successful. The Granola name is revived by the modern
> health food movement, it becomes a "hippie" health food
> in the 1960's and finally, today granola has gone mainstream.



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Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Thanks for the info everyone.

I was in Trader Joes yesterday and picked up their Museli with
Blueberries to mix with my homemade yogurt. I guess I made the right
selection.

Bet to all.

Bruce K.

"Bruce K." wrote:
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce

The main difference is that granola sounds more appetizing.
Muesli sounds too much like mucus for me to ever want to
eat it under that name. ;-)
Kate
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