Edward Fritzberg Legacy

Have you ever eaten cherrios and wondered why they are in the shape of a doughnut? My Great Grandfather was part of the team that invented the cheerio and he determined the shape. Edward L. Fritzberg, was born in 1908, in Pittsburgh, PA. He died in 1999 at the age of 98. Sadly, I never got the chance to meet him, however his legacy lives on today. After Edward graduated high school he went to college at the University of Minnesota and graduated with a degree in chemical engineering. During his career he worked in three major companies in the food industry. He started at Pillsbury, then went to Sunkist and ended up at General Mills. He was an inventor and was responsible for many patents. The technology that Edward used was to increase the efficiency for the company’s he worked for. The machines he invented would allow the companies to make more of the material the correct way that they needed to make certain products like

Edward helped the food industry by being able to make more of the products they wanted to sell without spending a lot of money. This is important to companies to help them survive and stay in business. Edward Fritzberg’s legacy is affecting the world every day. He was a part of creating a major well known cereal that everyone knows and still eats today. He helped create machines and inventions that were more efficient for the food industry. Those companies have taken what he made and are either still using it today, or have made improvements over time. Edward would bring home food that didn’t make it through the process from factory to grocery store shelves. Edward thought that all of the food that the grocery stores didn’t want should not go to waste because normally it would be thrown away. The food was not bad it just was that the grocery stores didn’t want to buy and sell it because they thought people coming to their stores would not buy