Ryvita is a brand of

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crispbread Crispbread is a flat and dry type of bread, containing mostly rye flour. Crispbreads are lightweight and keep fresh for a very long time due to their lack of water. Crispbread is a staple food and was for a long time considered a poor man's diet ...

from Great Britain. The brand started in the 1920s and has been owned by

Associated British Foods Associated British Foods plc (ABF) is a British multinational food processing and retailing company headquartered in London, England. Its ingredients division is the world's second-largest producer of both sugar and baker's yeast and a major pr ...

(ABF) since 1949. Today Ryvita products are manufactured and sold by Jordans Dorset Ryvita, a subsidiary of ABF.

Products

The Ryvita range includes varieties of baked products that the company calls crispbreads, crackerbreads and thins, some with adjuncts such as dried fruit and seeds and some using other grain flours, such as wheat.

History

The Ryvita company was founded in 1925 by John Edwin Garratt. It initially imported rye crispbreads from Scandinavia but in 1932 started production in

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in England. The Ryvita factory was destroyed during the

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and replaced in 1949 by a new production facility in

Poole Poole () is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England. The town is east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east ...

in Dorset, a port on the south coast of England. The site is an old one with most equipment dating from just after the Second World War when the factory opened. In 1949, the company was acquired by

(ABF). It is currently part of ABF subsidiary Jordans Dorset Ryvita, that also produces cereal-based foods under the Jordans and Dorset Cereals brand names. The company held royal warrants as manufacturers of crispbreads, granted by

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and by

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References

External links

Ryvita website

Jordans Dorset Ryvita
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Products

History

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