granola
n.n. a healthy breakfast food made from rolled oats, nuts, and seeds that are baked with oil and sugar. It is usually eaten with milk or yogurt.
n. a breakfast food consisting of rolled oats, nuts, and seeds mixed with oil and sugar, then baked until crisp. Often associated with health-conscious or organic lifestyles.
I usually eat a bowl of granola with yogurt for breakfast.
The local health store sells a variety of organic granola made with honey and flax seeds.
While traditional granola is a staple of the modern health food movement, its origins trace back to the early 20th century when it was marketed as a nutritious alternative to processed breakfast cereals.
Genericized trademark from Granola, a brand of breakfast cereal registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient. The food and name were revived in the 1960s. By 1967, it appears in American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular + the commercial suffix -ola.