Heavy Metal Cereal

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A few weeks ago, a friend informed me that many of our everyday breakfast cereals contain so much physical iron—in other words, actual metal—that the individual flakes could be magnetized. Refusing to believe this could be correct, I did a little research and found quite a few heated discussions on the topic online. As an uneducated consumer, I’d always assumed iron, which helps create oxygen-carrying red blood cells, was a naturally occurring protein that shared the same name as a rock-hard mineral purely by coincidence. Curiosity piqued, I conducted an experiment on my own using cereals found at my local supermarket.
While iron occurs naturally in various edibles—red meat, spinach, dried fruits, etc—it can also be added to food products artificially. As it turns out, iron-fortified cereals are exactly that: cereal whose iron content is enhanced with the addition of actual iron filings. Whether this is a reliable method of attaining iron is up for debate—this consumer health advocate, for example, claims that metal fragments are not “nutritionally equivalent to nutritive minerals formed during the growth of grain-producing plants,” and that the addition of metal to cereal is merely to boost numbers on the Nutrition Facts label. What is commonly agreed upon, however, is that metal consumed in such small, easy-to-process quantities does not pose a health risk.

Nonetheless, I’ve decided I’ll meet my daily iron requirements the old-fashioned way and leave the fortified stuff on the shelf. (Luckily for many manufacturers, spoilage shouldn’t be an issue—another reason for the addition of metal, I learned, is the added benefit of an increased shelf life.)

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this is the wrong type of iron for humans. shame on cereal companies and anyone "fortifying".

alison

In fact, these days, in addition to scraping iron from metals, Bill Gates has introduced Graphene Oxide 😢

grecolcheco

The sick thing is many cold cereals have pesticides in them. Pesticides have lots of mercury in them. 😔

cindykammerzell

Iron as iron is toxic. If this is okay and a food standard pass, then when else are they doing

matthewjogden

You make a dangerous truth sound so fanciful 😂 “like a little speedboat!” “They’re dancing together.” 😆

PCKA

The iron you recovered there is in _much_ smaller form than what I'd call "filings" or "fragments": it is much finer-grained than that. It is also not pure, but bound in complex molecules as fumarate or sulphate.

As a follow-up, it would be interesting to see you do the same blender experiment with spinach and such. (Though in the case of spinach sadly, most of the iron gets bound as an oxalate, which isn't absorbed at all in digestion.)

Great video, we are being targeted. "As Above, , , So Below.."
Nothing is safe to eat, never has. Never is. Were only learning about it nie, some of us sre. 🙏💙🙏

georgiecane

I actually sprinkle extra iron filings on my cereal. My doctor says it's the cause of my pulverised anus, but I don't buy it.

GreggyAck

Lo que muchos no saben es que es agregado intencionalmente para bien, es hierro y los cereales lo tienen y es para combatir la anemia

cucucukis

Then surely the question is.. is it good or harmful? I cant seem to get a definative answer

proutcat

What is the "fortifying" ingredient i should be looking for to avoid metal fragments???

dt

I used to had iron deficits when I was a kid and my parents mad me drink some weird radish with iron stuff. It tasted like licking a rusty metal plate XD

thecommenter

Crush your daily vitamin, you will find the same thing. It's in the vitamin mix not "metal" being added to the cereal. He called it out and showed the iron daily value % listing on the box.

danielkorpi

Has anyone else attempted finding iron in cereal by conducting an experiment like Henry's? I'm kind of skeptical about this. Guess the only way to find out is if I do it myself?

Lergan