Are Grape nuts actually nuts?

Or am I?

they are grapes

DUH :eyes:

http://www.kraft.com/100/innovations/grapenuts.html

"... Post® Grape-Nuts®, the cereal that is neither a grape nor a nut"
"Made of wheat and malted barley"

From straightdope.com:

Dear Cecil:

I was idly reading a Grape-Nuts package the other day and was struck by the fact that the ingredients seem to have nothing to do with either grapes or nuts. Reading the fine print, I see that it's really "grape nuts brand natural wheat & barley cereal," etc., but the type sizes jump around madly and any normally myopic person would just see the "grape nuts." So here are my questions: (1) Can I market my "100% Lean Beef brand desiccated corn husks" without getting in trouble with the consumer protection people, the FTC, et. al.? (I assume anything I do will get me in trouble with Ralph Nader.) (2) If I can't, how can the Post division of General Foods? (3) In any case, how did they come to call them Grape-Nuts? -- Winfield S., Chicago

The answer here: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_147.html

Both Grape Nuts and Kix are the most aweful bland disgusting
cereals out there