Australian Health & Nutrition Association Limited trading as Sanitarium has used the word Granola in the United
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Australian Health & Nutrition Association Limited trading as Sanitarium has used the word "Granola" in the United States since 1876 as a badge of origin to refer to a wheat and oat breakfast cereal ground into granules and baked. Granola is an invented word derived from the words "grain" and "granular" which are descriptive of the constituent parts of the cereal and process. For this reason, +ola was added to gran to make an invented word. Granola is commonly understood in the United States to identify a particular Sanitarium product. Sanitarium sells a cereal in Australia under the name "Granola" at a price point of $6.00 in supermarkets for 370g. This product is shown in Picture 1.
Byron Bay Muesli (BBM) have recently produced a "Paleo Granola" shown in Picture 2 below. Their granola won the 2022 award for Best Granola in Australia with a score out of 9.3/10 in the Zotezo Live Better Awards. Sanitarium state that they have the reputation in the word "Granola" and that Byron Bay Muesli is passing-off their product as the Sanitarium product. BBM's product sells for $AU19.99 for a 400g packet.
BBM has done some research into the word Granola. They have found in Australia, granola is used as a phrase for a boutique form of muesli that has various ingredients, including whole grains of wheat, oats, nuts, honey, dried fruit, and other preserved foods. The term is associated with the category recognised as health food. This includes brands such as Carmens Granola, Jordan's Granola, Back to Nature Gluten Free Granola, Irrewarra Homemade Granola, Brook Farm Nutty Granola and others including a Coles home brand version of granola. Many supermarkets mixtures of these brands that use the word granola in their description.Many cookbooks include recipes for homemade granola, dating back to the 1995 edition of Rosemary Stanton's Complete Book of Food and Nutrition which had various recipes for granola. They identified 47 retail products, 89 recipes and 80 menu items using the term Granola to describe muesli products either produced or imported into Australia, which were not linked to Sanitarium.
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