granola

Noun

cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar
A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
Ellipsis of crunchy granola.

Adj

Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.

Examples

"You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days."

Origin / Etymology

Earlier, with a capital g, it was a proprietary name for a kind of breakfast cereal, registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient. The food and name were revived in the 1960s. By 1967, it appears in American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular, with the commercial suffix -ola.

Scrabble Score: 8

granola is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
granola is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
granola is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

granola is a valid Words With Friends word