The over a hundered-year-old ingredient to breakfast cereal and your dad and grandparents favorite ice cream is going through a crisis. Do a huge field of produce come to mind when you think of a Grape-Nut? Well, most of the Grape-Nuts of the world come from a factory in San Joaquin Valley, a valley filled with nuts and grapes. The thing is… Neither of these ingredients enters the San Joaquin Valley factory.