Breakfast is a word that we all commonly use, it comes from the two words break and fast, meaning, break the fast of not eating for the longest time (overnight).  Breakfast is the first and most important meal of the day. There are lots of different foods that can be eaten for breakfast eg: Cereal, toast, bacon, eggs, crumpets and muffins. In 1894, Cornflakes were invented by Will Keith Kellogg, who was trying to improve the diet of hospital patients. He was searching for a digestible bread substitute using the process of boiling wheat. Kellogg accidentally left a pot of boiled wheat to stand and the wheat became tempered (soften). When Kellogg rolled the tempered or softened wheat and let it dry, each grain of wheat emerged as a large thin flake. The flakes turned out to be a tasty cereal.

Click on the link below to hear Rowan disspell the myths of breakfast and tell us how important this meal really is!

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• Everyone has freckles; some people have them in very odd spots like, in-between fingers, in ears and even up noses!!!
• The word “freckle” comes from the Middle English “freken,” which, in turn, came from the Old Norse “freknur,” meaning “freckled.”
• There are two basic types of freckles — both with somewhat strange names — ephelides and lentigines.
•  Freckles are mostly made by long exposure to the sun, which is known as suntaning!!!
• Freckles are rare on infants, and more common on children  before puberty; they are less common on adults!
• If you are very fair skinned or you have red hair you are likely to have a lot of freckles or ’sun kisses’ as they are sometimes called.

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