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Story: Food and beverage manufacturing

Weet-Bix breakfast

These women are enjoying Weet-Bix on a camping trip around 1939. From the mid-1920s cereals such as Kornies, Kelloggs Cornflakes, Rice Bubbles, Puffed Wheat and Weet-Bix were listed in a monthly price survey published in the New Zealand Grocers’ Review. These types of breakfast cereals originated as purified vegetarian foods.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Thelma Kent Collection (PAColl-3052)

Reference: 1/2-010114; F

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Sarah Wilcox, Food and beverage manufacturing – Spreads and breakfast cereals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/22991/weet-bix-breakfast (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 3 March 2010.