• Home
• Recipes
  • By Food Item▶
    • Pancakes
    • Waffles
    • French Toast
    • Omelets
    • Scrambles
    • Eggs, Etc.
    • Oatmeal
    • Baked Goods
    • Homemade Cereals
    • Fruity
    • Crepes
    • Souffles
    • Quiche
    • Breakfast Drinks
    • Other
  • By Breakfast Concept▶
    • American
    • International
    • Healthy
    • Regional
    • Fancy
    • Experimental
  • Recipe Super Index
• Library
  • Breakfast Articles▶
    • All Articles
    • Ask Mr Breakfast
    • Breakfast Holidays
    • Research And Statistics
  • Product Reviews
  • About Mr Breakfast▶
    • About The Site
    • About The Man
  • Site Index
• Breakfast Blog
• Cereal Project
  • Cereals - Alphabetical
  • Cereals By Company
  • Cereal Timeline
  • Top 100 Cereals
  • Cereal Families
  • Video Library
  • Cereal Games
  • Message Boards
  • Buy Cereal Online
  • About The Project

From: Ralston
Introduced in 1936


A fictional working father described the cereal as follows in a 1940 advertisement:

Give me a Shredded Ralston Breakfast - I've got a job to do!

Energy... that's what I need... and that's what I get in Shredded Ralston. Whole wheat energy, and that good Shredded Ralston flavor. Doesn't matter what shift I work - Shredded Ralston is ready-to-eat when I'm ready. And man! does it give me life! No wonder Uncle Sam says - eat foods like this every day.

Get your whole wheat every day - the easy Shredded Ralston way"

Company Description: Ralston was originally part of The Ralston-Purina Company which was formed in 1902. The name Ralston stems from a minor social movement in the late 19th Century called Ralstonism - created by Webster Edgerly. Followers of the movement (about 800,000) followed the motto "Regime, Activity, Light, Strength, Temperation, Oxygen and Nature" - the first letters of which spelled out "Ralston"... Read on and see all cereals from Ralston

---

---

Overall Average Rating = 84 (out of 5)

View all 20 comments for this cereal.


By Postman

Looks like shredded wheat to me not Chex.

Comment submitted: 9/9/2019 (#24479)



By ral

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

My name is Ralston. I'm a hot Ralston. This cereal is very honored to be named after me.

Comment submitted: 9/6/2019 (#24471)



By G.P.

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

My husband who is 82 keeps referring to Chex mix as Shredded Ralston and I didn't realize that Ralston had been taken over by General Mill so now I can tell him he is correct. Thank you for the info.

Comment submitted: 12/4/2017 (#22487)



By Jebby

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

I am now 80 years old and I remember the jingle 'take a tip from Tom go and tell your mom Shredded Ralston can't be beat'. Then I thought 'what is Shredded Ralston'???? - a breakfast cereal but corn, oats, wheat, what???? Ohhh, Wheat Chex. Thanks.

Comment submitted: 12/14/2016 (#21133)



By BEAR

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

I grew up with Shredded Ralston, Wheaties, Rice Krispies, and other cereals of the '40's. Shredded Ralston was a favorite and I'm sorry to see it gone. Wheat Chex is all right, though.

Comment submitted: 9/28/2016 (#20887)



By loyaltubist (Team Breakfast Member)

Shredded Ralston was reformulated and renamed Wheat Chex sometime between the end of the Tom Mix radio show and before Space Patrol premiered.

Comment submitted: 1/22/2016 (#19879)



By Joe-7

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

It was not all that good but I would rather have it than ZO.

Comment submitted: 12/5/2015 (#19721)



By kokoze dad

I loved the ads: 'It's delicious and nutritious made with real western wheat. Take a tip from Tom go and tell your mom, shredded Ralston can't be beat.'

Comment submitted: 7/14/2015 (#19224)



By OldTimer

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

Wish they still made it!

Comment submitted: 7/29/2014 (#17429)



By Andy F.

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

After Ralston sold the Chex cereals to General Mills, they took over Post's from Kraft.

Comment submitted: 1/4/2013 (#10290)



View all 20 comments for this cereal.