I have just done this test in Australia ! Kellogg's Fruity loops ! Same thing ! What I intend to do however is confirm if the loop is becoming magnetized due to the metals in the water!
Reduced iron: (Chem.) metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen.
I have hemochromatosis, I have the genes that make me store iron, this cereal would definitely build up in my liver,heart, thyroid, pancreas or pituitary. The serum ferritin levels was taken out of cbc many years ago. People just get sicker. Hemachromatosis is not so rare. one in two hundred have it. you could have it.
I haven't heard of that one before, and I'm surprised that it is so common :-O As I understand it, this form of iron is more difficult to break down and absorb than other dietary types, but if one is particularly sensitive to iron it would probably be best to avoid it at all... Thanks for watching and commenting!
@jcmegabyte Oh, And I don't dare eat a big bowl of bran flakes before a MRI, therein I could realy screw up my body. MRI machines heat up metal in your body. Your fried basically. I might be overthinking this, but thanks for you video on the subject. Stay safe.
Actually, the iron used in most supplements is chemically combined with other elements to help make it more digestable. This type of iron is more like the type you would find in ordinary soil, although it is a bit more coarse than the tiny colloidal particles plants can normally absorb. The whole science or iron absorbption is quite fascinating :-)
Damn, I used to eat bran flakes, I think it's to blame for occasional heart palpitations I had. I will conduct and record this for myself and if my results are the same, I'll use it for presentation
When "Scientists" want to know what's in the food they break it down first then study it. Big mistake. Plants take Iron atoms and structure it into a bio-grade molecule. Ground Iron or reduced Iron is not the same thing as Iron based nutrients. You HAVE to eat whole foods if you want to be healthy.
It is interesting that I couldn't find much in the way dissolution and absorbption info for this (or any other) type of iron... They do seem to think that a certain amount of it does dissolve in the stomach's hydrochloric acid, and once dissolved, should be usable by the body. It does make one wonder just how much, though. Coloidal iron (as found in plants) is best, followed more easily absorbed iron compounds (which aren't used due to food spoilage issues). It's fascinating stuff... :-/
So far as I know, all of the "authorities" know about and have approved this additive for foods, even in this large particle size... It's been around for at least 30-40 years, and as weird as it seems, I haven't heard of anyone ever having a problem related to it. I think that the reality of it is just that this (and many of the other natural and man-made things we eat) is just kind of strange when you really think about it. XD Thanks for stopping by! =)
"Our fore fathers never had the diseases that exist in todays society . CANCER , DIABITIES & MANY OTHERS"
** WRONG **
These issues have always been with us, even in the days of our "fore fathers". It's just that we didn't know what it was so it was treated and classified as either unknown or something other than what it was.
These issues have ALWAYS been a part of humanity, although there are *some* exceptions. Of course, eating right is always good for better health.
I have to agree. In spite of all the food additives, pollution, and diseases in our lives, humans are living longer now than ever in the past (except for rare populations in isolated, pristine places) =) Granted, healthier lifestyles, less processed foods, and less food in general would further improve life quality/span, but in the past most people died-off pretty young, long before all these later-aged diseases ever got the chance to rear their ugly heads. Interesting stuff!
@jcmegabyte thats bullshit,back in the 1400a when supposedly the average age was 35 less people made it past the birth process, but if you made it you would most likely live just as long back then as we do now!simple what has improved is lifestyle related death (malnutrition etc), infant mortality, death due to dangerous work conditions, by infectious disease, by war etc. Abraham of the Bible was 175 yrs old, Li Ching-Yun a Chinese herbalist, lived from 1736 to 1933.
thanks to: Dr. Levy shows how eating enriched foods aren't the best choice. Im so glad he was the first person who posted this information on youtube.
It was an interesting and inspirational vid - as noted in the vid description... I understand that Mr. Wizard was doing this demonstration on national TV back in the 70s, as well. =)
I still eat these and other iron-fortified cereals too, even after doing this experiment. Though iron bits large enough to see and stick to a magnet seems a bit odd for a food, I figure that by comparison to many other food ingredients, plain old elemental iron is likely one of the safest and necessary ones! XD It's also one of the few minerals one might find embedded naturally in a root pulled from the ground (potato, carrot, etc.) Not so much bad, just a little weird is all =) Cheers!
@jcmegabyte The iron added to cereal is not the same as the naturally embedded iron in spinach, for example (yeah, that stuff that makes Popeye strong). Try to do the same with spinach, and then come back.
I agree - colloidal elemental iron which plants absorb from soil is the best iron source. It's microscopic and can't be collected/attracted with magnets. However, iron particles in the soil exist in many sizes and are very similar to elemental iron added to cereal. No doubt plants can't circulate larger bits of iron from the soil, but they could become lodged in edible roots and eaten, especially if unpeeled. Could make for some more interesting experiments... Cheers! :-)
@jcmegabyte You should do a calculation, The RDA of 100% is only 8 milligrams I think that is per serving of 100 grams or more.
How many grams is one cereal? How much of that 8 milligrams will be in one cereal will it be enough to respond to a magnet.
Did you know in India Iron fillings were mixed with mustard seeds to increase weight. I think these companies are "over puffing" their cereals and adding iron to increase weight , and make more profits.
That would be an interesting experiment too. It seemed like I got quite a bit of iron from the small amount of cereal I tested, and I'm sure I didn't get it all. For a weight test to be accurate, one would have to get ALL of the iron out of the test sample, which might be difficult. I also suspect that much of this iron passes through the body, being so large it's probably not dissolved completely. The actual amount absorbed would be quite variable and hard to measure. Strange stuff. :-/
@jcmegabyte I don't understand how it can NOT be harmful. I don't think we can consume iron that way. I aing consuming it anyways
Those are too large, its seems to be adultration using junk iron as "iron" who believe the FDA they have allowed so many poisonous chemicals as food additives.
@MoreAnonymous It's part of the deception/lies of companies. Added iron sounds like it's healthy (marketing) but in reality the human does not absorb the iron that they add. It's like the calcium in dairy products, the body is incapable of aborbing the calcium in milk. The government won't tell you tha because of all the subsidies and politics involved. It's all about profit, not the health of the consumer. "Drink Milk..." is a massive deception just like these "healthy" breakfast cereals.
Exactly what I meant . What else is in our processed food & take a look back , to a farmers day on the land where all they ate - WAS FRESH FRUIT , VEGETABLES & MEAT !! ALL GROWN WITHOUT CHEMICALS & UNTOUCHED PROCESSORS . - Did they have any enviromental causing cancers or diseases . NO - NOW Enter present Day FOOD PROSSESED FOOD IS A VERY DANGEROUS CONCERN - Thanks @ jcmegabyte for backing up my claim as it was intended <3
@mofine4eva .. Der , do you think I'm a dummy , I do know we need more than just Iron to give us other nutrients , I was just taken aback at the amount of Iron pulled from that small amount of cereal which is processed food . Our fore fathers never had the diseases that exist in todays society . CANCER , DIABITIES & MANY OTHERS That we never had before food was processed . Farmers & families on the land were healthier . They ate off the land ... That's where I had meant my focused comment
That's how I saw it, too. I don't know why the bits are so large in this cereal, but I suspect that because they are, there needs to be more of them to provide the same surface area and thus the same amount of dissovled, usable iron after the stomach's hydrochloric acid has attacked them. No doubt all the aritifical ingredients in our food affects our health (or lack of it) although I'm not so sure reduced iron is much of a culprit - just kinda weird is all. =)
@veeniecase Processed food is not the (only?) cause of these diseases. Some reasons that diseases such as cancer and diabetes is more present in today's society than in previous societies are:
1. People didn't live as long, so there was a smaller chance of noticing these diseases.
2. If you had one of these diseases, you died a lot faster.
3. The technology for diagnosing these diseases was not developed.
Also, people were not necessarily healthier, as you imply, know about the bubonic plague?
I tried this on quite a few other foods with added and natural iron, and was only successful with this one cereal so far... It is indeed interesting to experiment! =)
O.M.GOSH That is disgusting , if thats what huge amounts of Iron in Breakfast cereal . What are they putting in other processed foods , no wonder CANCER is the BIGGEST KILLER IN THE WORLD .Thanks for the Sub to me too , can i share your videos & favorite some on my channel please . Hope you had an Eggcellent Hoppity Easter . What was in all those Chockies we ate all over the world then .xo
There is definitely a lot of strange stuff in our food... even if the ingredients are listed on the labels it's sometimes hard to know what they are! XD Sure, you can post, share and link to any of my vids :-) Cheers!
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Actually, that was the odd thing about this experiment... Usually, iron in foods is so fine that there's no way you can find it or otherwise get it to react with a magnet. I've tried with many other iron-enriched foods; noodles, flour, breads/pasteries... nothing else does this. I don't expect that the iron is bad for you (other than maybe wearing your teeth down a bit) but I still have no good explanation as to why the bits are so large in these cereals. Interesting stuff! =)
Actually, that was the odd thing about this experiment... Usually, iron in foods is so fine that there's no way you can find it or otherwise get it to react with a magnet. I've tried with many other iron-enriched foods; noodles, flour, breads/pasteries... nothing else does this. I don't expect that the iron is bad for you (other than maybe wearing your teeth down a bit) but I still have no good explanation as to why the bits are so large in these cereals. Interesting stuff! =)
No joke - this really works! Many other people have done it themselves, too, and it's even been done on national TV many years ago. However, the poster below says he tried it and didn't get any iron bits... Could be that manufacturers use different ingredients in different countries. Would be interesting to know if that's true, and why...
I did this experiment myself and can assure that everything you see here is very real. Lots of other people have done this experiment too. Did the cereal you tested have "Reduced iron" in the ingredients? ..and if so, what was the brand and type of cereal you used? I used generic "Great Value"-brand Bran Flakes from Wal Mart here in the US. Perhaps cereals in your region use a different formulation than those sold here...
@jcmegabyte oh believe me sir..we r in the middle east..this means we will be the first "dumpster" for bad US products..sorry but i do not mean the American people..i mean greedy people..the brand name is "Kelloge's cornflakes"..the one with a cock picture on it and yes it has reduced iron..the same they have in the video..supposing that it has these metal bits, wouldn't it simply hurt your stomach and you would feel it in your teeth?!! yes you will if it was real iron..i don't know...
Thanks for the info. I think many greedy corporations (US and elsewhere) do bad things for bigger profit, no doubt there. We have Kellogg's Corn Flakes here too, but I haven't tested them. I'm surprised you got no iron bits at all. I had to make the cereal REALLY soupy and dissolved, and used a VERY strong magnet. Maybe the bits are smaller in Corn Flakes. I'll have to try those. I don't know if the iron hurts your stomach, but I wondered about it wearing teeth down a lot. Interesting stuff.
did not believe did not lie then I decided to do the experiment myself and the result come that this product is a mixture of materials is not just mineralsbut also toxic substances appear brand after a long time on the human body and less damage is the weakness in the activity of the digestive system to humans meaning that This disease can not eat all his life only feeds on liquids
This is because food is not digesting in the stomach, even if the food was, for example, bananas are the stomach to digest MASTURBATORS after a week and result in rot in the stomach because of the survival of food which can not take it out only after two weeks and I apologize for what they will say may be a nasty little Out stool hurts the owner of this disease is blended with blood resulting from the passage in the intestine sore
Do not kill your child or your child for this product Heatunai with regret very much that humans become live as his third world in their eyes are not human beings and they have no objection to the promotion of any commodity for trade!! Islamic religion forbids it, as well as the Christian religion! So who are the owners of this company!
And I would like to add a small piece of information _ (the main company moved from New Jersey and went to Tel Aviv! and despite the presence of parent company there, but nothing in Tel Aviv this product!! and there are in America, but as a different rate to purchase the product in the United States only 4 %. As to the third world the purchase of 67%
That's a good question, and I wondered the same thing myself... So far as I can tell, there is no documented evidence that it hurts you, and it's been shown that the stomach's hydrochloric acid does break down enough of it to be successfully absorbed as usable iron in the bloodstream. This sort of iron is used because other types are known to accelerate food spoilage, but what baffles me is why they'd use such large bits. There must be a reason, I just haven't discovered it yet. :-/
There's probably not a lot of foods that don't have at least one weird or not-so-appetizing fact about them... especially man-made foods. For some REALLY scary reading, just look at the ingredients in cola or cake! XP
Any iron not used will pass harmlessly through your body.
This is not bad for you, your body uses a lot of different elements in different ways.. For example, nitrogen, hydrogen, SULFUR and phosphate are VITAL to your survival.
Mostly, its just kind of weird to actually be thinking about how we, as humans, could not survive without metal and other strange, very un "food" like chemicals/elements like magnesium.
Diverticulosis is the condition of having pockets (like little balloons) protruding out from the intestinal walls, into which passing material can become trapped. Most foods are liquified at that point in digestion. However, reduced iron is fairly heavy, and tends to settle - like the black iron dust in gold panning, and could accumulate while it dissovles slowly over time. On the bright side, I (and millions of others) eat this stuff all the time without any trouble! :-) Cheers!
Most any big-name cereal is "fortified with vitamins and minerals", including "reduced Iron". You might find ingredient lists online - try Googling it. Reduced iron is also used in many other products like bread, muffins, cake, noodles... anything made with "enriched" flour commonly has it. Fortunately, it's not known to be bad for us, it's just kind of weird to think of eating metal. Oddly, we also eat copper, zinc, magnesium and other metals (in trace amounts) in our everyday foods. :-]
Damd. No wonder why i get that metallic taste in my mouth, especially interacting with my dental fillings. However, I probably got more toxic posioning from chewing on lead based paint chips and sticking chinese lead based toys on my mouth as a child, lol. Hell, the pen top i'm nervously gnawing on right now is probably killin me, hah.
I was surprised by how much of the flavor of Bran flakes is made by the metallic taste of the iron bits, but I think you're right - there are far more scary sources of other (toxic) metals in other everyday products we come in contact with :-/
"May represent a toxic form of iron." This is not a toxic form of iron. Progressive liberals are constantly creating hysteria because they lack the basic fundamentals of science and chemistry. Of course it's not bio-available when it's in the container/box. The addition of iron filings to food is a common method of iron enrichment. The iron filings are not bio-available until they reach the stomach where they are oxidized to Fe3+. The oxidized form of Fe3+ is easily absorbed. Grow up!
From everything I've read (and there is some fascinating reading out there in medical land) there doesn't seem to be any problem with eating this type iron, only questions about its bio-availability... Most sources seem to agree that metallic iron is less bio-available than other types, but this depends on the size of the particles as well as stomach's PH level. I still haven't found a good reason why they make the bits so large in cereals, although there probably IS one somewhere :-)
Ironically (hahaha) THIS metal you NEED to eat to stay alive... although maybe in not such large bits. Normally, the iron found naturally in food is so fine that it's invisible. Even added iron is extremely small - usually. I'm still not sure why they make the bits so large in these cereals...
I'm glad I could clarify that for you - A little weirdness in videos makes them fun and interesting, but I wouldn't want to be the cause freaking everyone out too much or ruining people's lives! XD Cheers! =)
@wwemickieandme listen, don't listen to the troll (jcmegabyte) he's talking utter nonsense, this is something you SHOULD be alarmed about because as ALL doctors will tell you : even to patients with iron deficiency, iron supplementing from such sources is not helpful and is in fact very dangerous cleading to many health problems, plus it will make you electromagnetically HYPER-sensitive when these metal pieces, some of which can get stuck inside your body, build up. Stick to organic wholefoods.
@JBofBrisbane only a shill like you could think telling someone to go ask their doctor if iron filinmgs are a bioavailable source of iron or a poison, is somehow underhanded.
Green leafy veggies are clearly better for us, but the world seems to run on sugar-coated foods which can be produced cheaply and stored long-term. Elemental (reduced) iron definitely isn't a great source. One study I read found that reduced iron in cereal is only about 27% soluable in the stomach's hydrochloric acid (PH=2) in 30 minutes. Soluability improves with smaller particles, and I have yet to find an answer as to why the iron bits in cereals are so large. Interesting research, though...
Iron is absolutely necessary for human life - it's the reason our blood is red :-) Iron comes is all kinds of forms - this kind is a basic elemental type, like one might find in the ground. The odd thing about the iron in the cereal isn't so much that it's there, but rather how large the bits are. One would think that it should be ground-up much finer than this. Chances are good there's a reason for the large particle size, I just haven't run across a good explanation yet...
It's surprising how hard we humans work to "purify" foods and water, only to add the same stuff back after the fact... Drinking water from a rusty iron pipe is essentially the same thing as eating these little iron particles, and may even provide more usable iron in the long run! XD
Just the big chunks will stick to the magent like this.. Normally, the iron in foods can't be extracted with a magnet, or even seen with the naked eye due to its extremely small size.
Instead of eating nasty adult cereal,why cant we just bite off a piece of an iron pole or somethhing? I bet it would taste better! (just kidding i'd rather eat tasteless adult cereal rather than swallowing a chunk of the american flag pole.)
Actually, I think just licking an unpainted (and maybe slightly rusty) flagpole would suffice - no need to wreck your teeth! XD You could also eat a spoonful of dirt (don't chew, just swallow) since this type of iron is a lot like the natural elemental kind you can find in ordinary soil, perhaps embedded in a potato skin, carrot or other underground-growing food, but I think I prefer cereal too!
@jcmegabyte it looks so fascinating as well as fun!! i use to eat cereal.. lots of it.. is it harmful? i guess i never really thought that iron in food actually was magnetic.
I guess iron is iron, although it takes pieces large enough to generate a sufficient counterfield to be picked-up with a magnet and seen with the naked eye. The best info I could find on reduced iron is that it's a lot like natural elemental iron you would get from garden/farm soil, or more obviously, that black dust you can find in dry river beds. It shouldn't be dangerous but it is odd that the chunks are so big in cereal, unlike the tiny invisible forms used in other foods/vitamins. :-)
@jcmegabyte it's all so interesting !! and yr right why are they such large chunks of it in cereal. thank you for posting this vid jcmegabyte ! food for thought, pardon the pun..
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Thanks for sharing.... For those of u that thinks added metal to your daily breakfast is ok-u are surely mistaken... Trace amounts of this stuff will build up over time... Look how over weight America is- the food supply is trash... Eat organic whenever u can
LMFAO! You people are retarded! Iron is a necessary to keep you healthy, all mammals need to inject small trace amounts of iron in food, it's natural and perfectly normal.
Indeed - iron is a critical mineral in human diets, but I still haven't found an answer as to why such large bits of reduced iron are used in cereal, while the reduced iron is virtually invisible (ground much finer) in other foods, like enriched flour, noodles, etc.
Yea, the percentage of iron-to-food seems reasonable, it was the actual particle size I was curious about. I tried this same experiment with other foods containing "reduced iron" (as opposed to "chelated" iron types used in vitamins and such), and could not find particles this large in any other foods, leading me to think that for some reason the reduced iron in cereal is intentionally not ground as finely for some reason. Maybe cost, maybe reactivity with milk... dunno...
@jcmegabyte That's most likely because cereal is somewhat artificially put together by humans instead of grown in the wild What do you mean by the particle size? All particles that constitute iron are the same size. Different foods have different trace amounts of iron in them so even if you take an equal amount of some other food and extract the iron content it might yield as much as you got from the cereal, but it's not any type of government conspiracy or anything.
Particle size is the physical size of each individual spec of iron that you can see in this video. Iron found naturally in food is normally colloidal, so microscopic that it's nearly molecular in size. Plant's root/vien structures can easily absorb/move it as needed. Minerals added to "fortified" foods are usually ground up very fine and become invisible when mixed into the food. The iron particles shown here are huge by comparison, can be seen with the naked eye and even stick a magnet...
I have just done this test in Australia ! Kellogg's Fruity loops ! Same thing ! What I intend to do however is confirm if the loop is becoming magnetized due to the metals in the water!
ozcabal 1 week ago
I confirmed this test is VALID
I tested Honey Buzzers by Malt-O-Meal and ferrous iron was inside.
SADNESS as I ate this cereal often before I knew better :(
spystyle 1 week ago
I WANT CEREAL!
Theguido177 3 weeks ago
Our body uses iron but doesn't destroy it, we need it to live. So why make a big deal about it this way?
LtBartram 3 weeks ago
@veeniecase except the life expectancy was at least a third of what it is today.
Makileesmommy 3 weeks ago
Thumbs up if your eating cereal while watching this video :)
Scoobydoo1193 1 month ago
iron makes our blood red...color of the devil
circusoflife 1 month ago
gosh..thought id seen it all...thxs!
circusoflife 1 month ago
I prefer to get my iron from organic sources. Thank you.
alph8c 1 month ago
Alot of the world has iron deficiency, it would be good for them.
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PIN25DF3FD9 2 months ago
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JcmdiStockFootage 2 months ago
Well, as ChurchLady would say. "Isn't THAT special?!"
cakesdusoleil 3 months ago
@cakesdusoleil Indeed... Thanks for checking it out!
JcmdiStockFootage 3 months ago
That's what you call a cereal killer :0
rcorporationtm 4 months ago
Reduced iron: (Chem.) metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen.
ge0metr1xx 4 months ago
Interesting - Thanks for the info! =)
JcmdiStockFootage 4 months ago
I have hemochromatosis, I have the genes that make me store iron, this cereal would definitely build up in my liver,heart, thyroid, pancreas or pituitary. The serum ferritin levels was taken out of cbc many years ago. People just get sicker. Hemachromatosis is not so rare. one in two hundred have it. you could have it.
fructmals 4 months ago
I haven't heard of that one before, and I'm surprised that it is so common :-O As I understand it, this form of iron is more difficult to break down and absorb than other dietary types, but if one is particularly sensitive to iron it would probably be best to avoid it at all... Thanks for watching and commenting!
jcmegabyte 4 months ago
@jcmegabyte Oh, And I don't dare eat a big bowl of bran flakes before a MRI, therein I could realy screw up my body. MRI machines heat up metal in your body. Your fried basically. I might be overthinking this, but thanks for you video on the subject. Stay safe.
fructmals 4 months ago
Isn't this due to the iron in the cereal, similar to iron supplements.
PtAltmVansanTarr 4 months ago
Actually, the iron used in most supplements is chemically combined with other elements to help make it more digestable. This type of iron is more like the type you would find in ordinary soil, although it is a bit more coarse than the tiny colloidal particles plants can normally absorb. The whole science or iron absorbption is quite fascinating :-)
jcmegabyte 4 months ago
Damn, I used to eat bran flakes, I think it's to blame for occasional heart palpitations I had. I will conduct and record this for myself and if my results are the same, I'll use it for presentation
plcollins1987 4 months ago
Wtf
crapmovies123 4 months ago
When "Scientists" want to know what's in the food they break it down first then study it. Big mistake. Plants take Iron atoms and structure it into a bio-grade molecule. Ground Iron or reduced Iron is not the same thing as Iron based nutrients. You HAVE to eat whole foods if you want to be healthy.
wavepsychic 5 months ago
It is interesting that I couldn't find much in the way dissolution and absorbption info for this (or any other) type of iron... They do seem to think that a certain amount of it does dissolve in the stomach's hydrochloric acid, and once dissolved, should be usable by the body. It does make one wonder just how much, though. Coloidal iron (as found in plants) is best, followed more easily absorbed iron compounds (which aren't used due to food spoilage issues). It's fascinating stuff... :-/
jcmegabyte 5 months ago
All I have to say is HOLY SHIT.
TezukaKohei 5 months ago
Eat a bowl of Total and set off metal detectors everywhere. haha
giantsammich 6 months ago
...and definitely avoid large magnets, too! XD
JCMDIweirdStuff 6 months ago
isn't too much for one serving?
soerism 6 months ago 2
I wondered about that too... seems a lot of iron, and pretty big particle sizes, as well. :-/
jcmegabyte 6 months ago
@jcmegabyte do you think you should report this to the authority? (yes, the particles are rough)
soerism 6 months ago
So far as I know, all of the "authorities" know about and have approved this additive for foods, even in this large particle size... It's been around for at least 30-40 years, and as weird as it seems, I haven't heard of anyone ever having a problem related to it. I think that the reality of it is just that this (and many of the other natural and man-made things we eat) is just kind of strange when you really think about it. XD Thanks for stopping by! =)
jcmegabyte 6 months ago
Someone wrote:
"Our fore fathers never had the diseases that exist in todays society . CANCER , DIABITIES & MANY OTHERS"
** WRONG **
These issues have always been with us, even in the days of our "fore fathers". It's just that we didn't know what it was so it was treated and classified as either unknown or something other than what it was.
These issues have ALWAYS been a part of humanity, although there are *some* exceptions. Of course, eating right is always good for better health.
thebakerman1 6 months ago 2
I have to agree. In spite of all the food additives, pollution, and diseases in our lives, humans are living longer now than ever in the past (except for rare populations in isolated, pristine places) =) Granted, healthier lifestyles, less processed foods, and less food in general would further improve life quality/span, but in the past most people died-off pretty young, long before all these later-aged diseases ever got the chance to rear their ugly heads. Interesting stuff!
jcmegabyte 6 months ago
@jcmegabyte thats bullshit,back in the 1400a when supposedly the average age was 35 less people made it past the birth process, but if you made it you would most likely live just as long back then as we do now!simple what has improved is lifestyle related death (malnutrition etc), infant mortality, death due to dangerous work conditions, by infectious disease, by war etc. Abraham of the Bible was 175 yrs old, Li Ching-Yun a Chinese herbalist, lived from 1736 to 1933.
tfrenn 3 months ago
NEEDS MORE SUGAR....
liljjisback 6 months ago
I'm sure there are some "frosted" bran flakes out there somewhere, too! XD Thanks for checking it out!
jcmegabyte 6 months ago
thanks to: Dr. Levy shows how eating enriched foods aren't the best choice. Im so glad he was the first person who posted this information on youtube.
cladgo45 7 months ago
It was an interesting and inspirational vid - as noted in the vid description... I understand that Mr. Wizard was doing this demonstration on national TV back in the 70s, as well. =)
jcmegabyte 7 months ago
I still eat these and other iron-fortified cereals too, even after doing this experiment. Though iron bits large enough to see and stick to a magnet seems a bit odd for a food, I figure that by comparison to many other food ingredients, plain old elemental iron is likely one of the safest and necessary ones! XD It's also one of the few minerals one might find embedded naturally in a root pulled from the ground (potato, carrot, etc.) Not so much bad, just a little weird is all =) Cheers!
jcmegabyte 7 months ago
@jcmegabyte The iron added to cereal is not the same as the naturally embedded iron in spinach, for example (yeah, that stuff that makes Popeye strong). Try to do the same with spinach, and then come back.
Krommak 7 months ago
I agree - colloidal elemental iron which plants absorb from soil is the best iron source. It's microscopic and can't be collected/attracted with magnets. However, iron particles in the soil exist in many sizes and are very similar to elemental iron added to cereal. No doubt plants can't circulate larger bits of iron from the soil, but they could become lodged in edible roots and eaten, especially if unpeeled. Could make for some more interesting experiments... Cheers! :-)
jcmegabyte 7 months ago
oh well..if i ever get constipated by this cereal, i can just drag a magnet downwards and problem solved !
test123ok 7 months ago
Good thinking! I knew there had to be some use for all the excess iron! XD Cheers! =)
jcmegabyte 7 months ago
and you did an outstanding job on this video. i show it to at least 3 people everyday.
ashley5368 7 months ago
Thanks so much! I'm happy you're getting some use out of it :-)
JcmdiStockFootage 7 months ago
i put different types of cereal with different types of iron levels in them, in an MRI machine. the video is on my page.
ashley5368 7 months ago
Interesting idea! Maybe you could post your vid as a response to this one... :-)
JcmdiStockFootage 7 months ago
اف اف اثريني اكل حديد وانا مدري ..
الله ياخذكم يارب انتم وا الي تبيعونه لنا..
mgnooonh0 8 months ago
so what's the conclusion here, is these metal bits bad for you or good for you?
MoreAnonymous 8 months ago
As best I can tell there's really nothing harmful about it - it's just kinda weird is all :-)
jcmegabyte 8 months ago
@jcmegabyte You should do a calculation, The RDA of 100% is only 8 milligrams I think that is per serving of 100 grams or more.
How many grams is one cereal? How much of that 8 milligrams will be in one cereal will it be enough to respond to a magnet.
Did you know in India Iron fillings were mixed with mustard seeds to increase weight. I think these companies are "over puffing" their cereals and adding iron to increase weight , and make more profits.
maharawj 8 months ago
That would be an interesting experiment too. It seemed like I got quite a bit of iron from the small amount of cereal I tested, and I'm sure I didn't get it all. For a weight test to be accurate, one would have to get ALL of the iron out of the test sample, which might be difficult. I also suspect that much of this iron passes through the body, being so large it's probably not dissolved completely. The actual amount absorbed would be quite variable and hard to measure. Strange stuff. :-/
jcmegabyte 8 months ago
@jcmegabyte I don't understand how it can NOT be harmful. I don't think we can consume iron that way. I aing consuming it anyways
Those are too large, its seems to be adultration using junk iron as "iron" who believe the FDA they have allowed so many poisonous chemicals as food additives.
maharawj 8 months ago
@MoreAnonymous It's part of the deception/lies of companies. Added iron sounds like it's healthy (marketing) but in reality the human does not absorb the iron that they add. It's like the calcium in dairy products, the body is incapable of aborbing the calcium in milk. The government won't tell you tha because of all the subsidies and politics involved. It's all about profit, not the health of the consumer. "Drink Milk..." is a massive deception just like these "healthy" breakfast cereals.
leambambam 8 months ago
@leambambam thx
MoreAnonymous 8 months ago
الله يعافيه انا دايم عيالي ياكلون منه
995245170 8 months ago
Exactly what I meant . What else is in our processed food & take a look back , to a farmers day on the land where all they ate - WAS FRESH FRUIT , VEGETABLES & MEAT !! ALL GROWN WITHOUT CHEMICALS & UNTOUCHED PROCESSORS . - Did they have any enviromental causing cancers or diseases . NO - NOW Enter present Day FOOD PROSSESED FOOD IS A VERY DANGEROUS CONCERN - Thanks @ jcmegabyte for backing up my claim as it was intended <3
veeniecase 8 months ago
الله وكبر عليكم
hadi954 8 months ago
@mofine4eva .. Der , do you think I'm a dummy , I do know we need more than just Iron to give us other nutrients , I was just taken aback at the amount of Iron pulled from that small amount of cereal which is processed food . Our fore fathers never had the diseases that exist in todays society . CANCER , DIABITIES & MANY OTHERS That we never had before food was processed . Farmers & families on the land were healthier . They ate off the land ... That's where I had meant my focused comment
veeniecase 8 months ago 5
That's how I saw it, too. I don't know why the bits are so large in this cereal, but I suspect that because they are, there needs to be more of them to provide the same surface area and thus the same amount of dissovled, usable iron after the stomach's hydrochloric acid has attacked them. No doubt all the aritifical ingredients in our food affects our health (or lack of it) although I'm not so sure reduced iron is much of a culprit - just kinda weird is all. =)
jcmegabyte 8 months ago
@veeniecase Processed food is not the (only?) cause of these diseases. Some reasons that diseases such as cancer and diabetes is more present in today's society than in previous societies are:
1. People didn't live as long, so there was a smaller chance of noticing these diseases.
2. If you had one of these diseases, you died a lot faster.
3. The technology for diagnosing these diseases was not developed.
Also, people were not necessarily healthier, as you imply, know about the bubonic plague?
PYates77 1 month ago
Now i believe..................
redryan5048 8 months ago
oh my mf god
PICKyourSELFupTV 9 months ago
This does not work on Organic Cereals. I tried both. Very interesting!
AwakingTV 9 months ago
I tried this on quite a few other foods with added and natural iron, and was only successful with this one cereal so far... It is indeed interesting to experiment! =)
jcmegabyte 9 months ago
Ironman's food
MrLiquid7 9 months ago 9
Most definitely XD Thanks for checking it out!
jcmegabyte 9 months ago
O.M.GOSH That is disgusting , if thats what huge amounts of Iron in Breakfast cereal . What are they putting in other processed foods , no wonder CANCER is the BIGGEST KILLER IN THE WORLD .Thanks for the Sub to me too , can i share your videos & favorite some on my channel please . Hope you had an Eggcellent Hoppity Easter . What was in all those Chockies we ate all over the world then .xo
veeniecase 9 months ago
There is definitely a lot of strange stuff in our food... even if the ingredients are listed on the labels it's sometimes hard to know what they are! XD Sure, you can post, share and link to any of my vids :-) Cheers!
jcmegabyte 9 months ago
@veeniecase iron is a neccessary mineral used to help blood cells transport oxygen.......... :P
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ciciliciousnyc 9 months ago
Thanks for stopping by! I'll send you a sub from one of my other channels (this one is maxed out!) =)
jcmegabyte 9 months ago
ويوم فيه ايش صار يعني فل الحجاج وخل عنك الهواجيس *** كلن يموت وحاجته ما قضاها
توكل على الله وادعي ع الظالم
hamseyes 9 months ago
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ebrahim857 9 months ago
I'm confused the contents clearly stated that there's iron in the flakes so what did u expecti to look like?
Sharoofa007 9 months ago
Actually, that was the odd thing about this experiment... Usually, iron in foods is so fine that there's no way you can find it or otherwise get it to react with a magnet. I've tried with many other iron-enriched foods; noodles, flour, breads/pasteries... nothing else does this. I don't expect that the iron is bad for you (other than maybe wearing your teeth down a bit) but I still have no good explanation as to why the bits are so large in these cereals. Interesting stuff! =)
JCMDIweirdStuff 9 months ago
Actually, that was the odd thing about this experiment... Usually, iron in foods is so fine that there's no way you can find it or otherwise get it to react with a magnet. I've tried with many other iron-enriched foods; noodles, flour, breads/pasteries... nothing else does this. I don't expect that the iron is bad for you (other than maybe wearing your teeth down a bit) but I still have no good explanation as to why the bits are so large in these cereals. Interesting stuff! =)
JCMDIweirdStuff 9 months ago
for your information guys
IRON is good for our health specially for ladies
ebrahim857 9 months ago
@ebrahim857
No.... your body requires no additional iron. Red blood cells that die recycle their iron content for the construction of new red blood cells.
rexmcnish 9 months ago
@rexmcnish so how come for some people who are using a iron drgs ? to maintain their health!!
ebrahim857 9 months ago
@ebrahim857
Some people can't recycle the iron in their blood.
Most can.
rexmcnish 9 months ago
@rexmcnish so ,, is it the same iron ?
ebrahim857 9 months ago
@ebrahim857
Iron is iron. There is only one substance called iron and that is... well, iron.
rexmcnish 9 months ago
@rexmcnish uh i see now oky thnx dude
ebrahim857 9 months ago
Thanks alot fir you experement and demo
Lots of USA companies are after the miney
They din't care how it effects people
aquasoul72 9 months ago
I will do this experiment then
i will told all of you what happened
noory106 9 months ago
Cool :-) Do let us know what type of cereal you use, too...
JcmdiStockFootage 9 months ago
yummy
DDSmohannad 9 months ago
It is terrible!!!
rscTrue 9 months ago
OMG ...I made this experiment my self ..and Surprised from the result .......!!!!!
Nooryasien 10 months ago
this realy fantastic but good advices beause I know a lot of people like it I will give them this link
qurashi1988 10 months ago
Daaaaaamn ... For reaaaaaaaaaal ????
mousa01 10 months ago
No joke - this really works! Many other people have done it themselves, too, and it's even been done on national TV many years ago. However, the poster below says he tried it and didn't get any iron bits... Could be that manufacturers use different ingredients in different countries. Would be interesting to know if that's true, and why...
jcmegabyte 10 months ago
i tried at home.. WHAT A BIG FAT LIE!!!!
كله كذب في كذب..جربتها في البيت مرتين وما حصل شي..لا برادة حديد ولا ما يحزنون!!!!
Eliaziah 10 months ago 2
I did this experiment myself and can assure that everything you see here is very real. Lots of other people have done this experiment too. Did the cereal you tested have "Reduced iron" in the ingredients? ..and if so, what was the brand and type of cereal you used? I used generic "Great Value"-brand Bran Flakes from Wal Mart here in the US. Perhaps cereals in your region use a different formulation than those sold here...
jcmegabyte 10 months ago
@jcmegabyte oh believe me sir..we r in the middle east..this means we will be the first "dumpster" for bad US products..sorry but i do not mean the American people..i mean greedy people..the brand name is "Kelloge's cornflakes"..the one with a cock picture on it and yes it has reduced iron..the same they have in the video..supposing that it has these metal bits, wouldn't it simply hurt your stomach and you would feel it in your teeth?!! yes you will if it was real iron..i don't know...
Eliaziah 10 months ago 2
Thanks for the info. I think many greedy corporations (US and elsewhere) do bad things for bigger profit, no doubt there. We have Kellogg's Corn Flakes here too, but I haven't tested them. I'm surprised you got no iron bits at all. I had to make the cereal REALLY soupy and dissolved, and used a VERY strong magnet. Maybe the bits are smaller in Corn Flakes. I'll have to try those. I don't know if the iron hurts your stomach, but I wondered about it wearing teeth down a lot. Interesting stuff.
jcmegabyte 10 months ago
@Eliaziah Arabic...why?
thecrazedgunman1 7 months ago
Unfortunately, the video is true .. At first when I saw the video I
zhrnaim 10 months ago
did not believe did not lie then I decided to do the experiment myself and the result come that this product is a mixture of materials is not just mineralsbut also toxic substances appear brand after a long time on the human body and less damage is the weakness in the activity of the digestive system to humans meaning that This disease can not eat all his life only feeds on liquids
zhrnaim 10 months ago
This is because food is not digesting in the stomach, even if the food was, for example, bananas are the stomach to digest MASTURBATORS after a week and result in rot in the stomach because of the survival of food which can not take it out only after two weeks and I apologize for what they will say may be a nasty little Out stool hurts the owner of this disease is blended with blood resulting from the passage in the intestine sore
zhrnaim 10 months ago
Do not kill your child or your child for this product Heatunai with regret very much that humans become live as his third world in their eyes are not human beings and they have no objection to the promotion of any commodity for trade!! Islamic religion forbids it, as well as the Christian religion! So who are the owners of this company!
zhrnaim 10 months ago
And I would like to add a small piece of information _ (the main company moved from New Jersey and went to Tel Aviv! and despite the presence of parent company there, but nothing in Tel Aviv this product!! and there are in America, but as a different rate to purchase the product in the United States only 4 %. As to the third world the purchase of 67%
zhrnaim 10 months ago
موب شرط يكون المقطع حقيقي .. ممكن يكون مجرد هاله اعلاميه بغرض اطاحة المنتج
1395shmooq 10 months ago
@1395shmooq والله و أنا أخوك ما الظاهر يمكن شفته و هو يمرر المغناطيس عليها و هي جافه .. بس ليه حديد؟
khaled6100 10 months ago
I'm confused
is it a good thing or a bad thing to have all this quantity of iron in our breakfasts?
annoooosa 10 months ago
That's a good question, and I wondered the same thing myself... So far as I can tell, there is no documented evidence that it hurts you, and it's been shown that the stomach's hydrochloric acid does break down enough of it to be successfully absorbed as usable iron in the bloodstream. This sort of iron is used because other types are known to accelerate food spoilage, but what baffles me is why they'd use such large bits. There must be a reason, I just haven't discovered it yet. :-/
JcmdiStockFootage 10 months ago
I don't know what to eat anymore...
mortalm100 10 months ago 2
There's probably not a lot of foods that don't have at least one weird or not-so-appetizing fact about them... especially man-made foods. For some REALLY scary reading, just look at the ingredients in cola or cake! XP
JcmdiStockFootage 10 months ago
scarrry
AbbeyDawn1000 10 months ago
Yea, some the ingredients in our foods definitely make you wonder... :-/ Thanks for watching!
jcmegabyte 10 months ago
Any iron not used will pass harmlessly through your body.
This is not bad for you, your body uses a lot of different elements in different ways.. For example, nitrogen, hydrogen, SULFUR and phosphate are VITAL to your survival.
Mostly, its just kind of weird to actually be thinking about how we, as humans, could not survive without metal and other strange, very un "food" like chemicals/elements like magnesium.
geandily 10 months ago
That's pretty much how I viewed it too, although I did wonder about possible accumulation in people with diverticulosis :-/
jcmegabyte 10 months ago
@jcmegabyte Hm, I dunno actually! To be honest, I dont actually know what divertculosis is...
I do know though, that the average healthy person will be unharmed by this.
geandily 10 months ago
Diverticulosis is the condition of having pockets (like little balloons) protruding out from the intestinal walls, into which passing material can become trapped. Most foods are liquified at that point in digestion. However, reduced iron is fairly heavy, and tends to settle - like the black iron dust in gold panning, and could accumulate while it dissovles slowly over time. On the bright side, I (and millions of others) eat this stuff all the time without any trouble! :-) Cheers!
jcmegabyte 10 months ago
people take medicine to stop acid production eat these shards of metal and they dont dissolve. then that act as irritants and cause cancer.
datzfast 11 months ago
That could deifinitely be a problem - especially for people who already have issues with diverticulosis...
jcmegabyte 11 months ago
@jcmegabyte i smell a class action lawsuit worth billions for some lucky law firm.
datzfast 11 months ago
you need iron its a part of your body with out it you would be very sick
jaquan123ism 11 months ago
That's for sure... lots of other weird chemicals and metals as well. :-)
jcmegabyte 11 months ago
EWE! I am never eating fortifyed cereal again!!! I think I will stick to my maple brown sugar oatmeal!
BRETTSBOO69 11 months ago
Chek your oatmeal's ingredient list - if it's "fortified" or "enriched" it may have reduce iron in it too. It's surprisingly common ;-)
JcmdiStockFootage 11 months ago
does Cocoa Puffs also have iron? im too lazy to go to the store and check :D
321beth321 11 months ago
Most any big-name cereal is "fortified with vitamins and minerals", including "reduced Iron". You might find ingredient lists online - try Googling it. Reduced iron is also used in many other products like bread, muffins, cake, noodles... anything made with "enriched" flour commonly has it. Fortunately, it's not known to be bad for us, it's just kind of weird to think of eating metal. Oddly, we also eat copper, zinc, magnesium and other metals (in trace amounts) in our everyday foods. :-]
JcmdiStockFootage 11 months ago
Damd. No wonder why i get that metallic taste in my mouth, especially interacting with my dental fillings. However, I probably got more toxic posioning from chewing on lead based paint chips and sticking chinese lead based toys on my mouth as a child, lol. Hell, the pen top i'm nervously gnawing on right now is probably killin me, hah.
ricogoldstar 11 months ago 2
I was surprised by how much of the flavor of Bran flakes is made by the metallic taste of the iron bits, but I think you're right - there are far more scary sources of other (toxic) metals in other everyday products we come in contact with :-/
jcmegabyte 11 months ago
"May represent a toxic form of iron." This is not a toxic form of iron. Progressive liberals are constantly creating hysteria because they lack the basic fundamentals of science and chemistry. Of course it's not bio-available when it's in the container/box. The addition of iron filings to food is a common method of iron enrichment. The iron filings are not bio-available until they reach the stomach where they are oxidized to Fe3+. The oxidized form of Fe3+ is easily absorbed. Grow up!
demonpreyer 11 months ago
From everything I've read (and there is some fascinating reading out there in medical land) there doesn't seem to be any problem with eating this type iron, only questions about its bio-availability... Most sources seem to agree that metallic iron is less bio-available than other types, but this depends on the size of the particles as well as stomach's PH level. I still haven't found a good reason why they make the bits so large in cereals, although there probably IS one somewhere :-)
jcmegabyte 11 months ago
omg omg omg omg!!! i don't wanna eat metal!!!
wwemickieandme 1 year ago
Ironically (hahaha) THIS metal you NEED to eat to stay alive... although maybe in not such large bits. Normally, the iron found naturally in food is so fine that it's invisible. Even added iron is extremely small - usually. I'm still not sure why they make the bits so large in these cereals...
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte thank god lol i was having a panic attack lol
wwemickieandme 1 year ago
I'm glad I could clarify that for you - A little weirdness in videos makes them fun and interesting, but I wouldn't want to be the cause freaking everyone out too much or ruining people's lives! XD Cheers! =)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte i don't wanna eat cereal now lol jk XD
wwemickieandme 1 year ago
@wwemickieandme listen, don't listen to the troll (jcmegabyte) he's talking utter nonsense, this is something you SHOULD be alarmed about because as ALL doctors will tell you : even to patients with iron deficiency, iron supplementing from such sources is not helpful and is in fact very dangerous cleading to many health problems, plus it will make you electromagnetically HYPER-sensitive when these metal pieces, some of which can get stuck inside your body, build up. Stick to organic wholefoods.
allthings509 11 months ago
@allthings509 umm ummmmmm i dont kno who to believe.....
wwemickieandme 11 months ago
@wwemickieandme well, go ask your doctor if it's good to ingest iron filings.
allthings509 11 months ago
@allthings509 - shilling for organic wholefoods, are we?
JBofBrisbane 11 months ago
@JBofBrisbane only a shill like you could think telling someone to go ask their doctor if iron filinmgs are a bioavailable source of iron or a poison, is somehow underhanded.
allthings509 11 months ago
cool, im eating metal
rb0tr4geh4ck3r 1 year ago 2
Yep... and the really ironic thing is that if you DON'T eat this metal (in one form or another) you'll die! Go figure XD
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte the body can only make use of iron that's bio-available, would you say iron filings come under that category?
allthings509 11 months ago
Green leafy veggies are clearly better for us, but the world seems to run on sugar-coated foods which can be produced cheaply and stored long-term. Elemental (reduced) iron definitely isn't a great source. One study I read found that reduced iron in cereal is only about 27% soluable in the stomach's hydrochloric acid (PH=2) in 30 minutes. Soluability improves with smaller particles, and I have yet to find an answer as to why the iron bits in cereals are so large. Interesting research, though...
HummingBirdChannel 11 months ago
@rb0tr4geh4ck3r yes keep eating metal it's excelllent for yoiu, and if you find some rusty nails grind them down and sprinkle on your salad.
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PUEBLOPLUG13 1 year ago
is iron good or bad
zultarius 1 year ago
Iron is absolutely necessary for human life - it's the reason our blood is red :-) Iron comes is all kinds of forms - this kind is a basic elemental type, like one might find in the ground. The odd thing about the iron in the cereal isn't so much that it's there, but rather how large the bits are. One would think that it should be ground-up much finer than this. Chances are good there's a reason for the large particle size, I just haven't run across a good explanation yet...
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte oh cool, after watching this i was like there's no way I'm eating cereal ever again lol but i guess its safe. thanks for the info bro
zultarius 1 year ago
Great and intresting
Grumetkh 1 year ago
Thanks for checking it out !
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Well thats me in the work shop this afternoon, Doing some Filing.
I also have 1 or 2 old horse shoes around, I ll try & swallow those as well l o l
10/10 *
MrStablelad 1 year ago
It's surprising how hard we humans work to "purify" foods and water, only to add the same stuff back after the fact... Drinking water from a rusty iron pipe is essentially the same thing as eating these little iron particles, and may even provide more usable iron in the long run! XD
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Let us know if you find gold, then you've got something.
carlsetzer 1 year ago 5
If I DID find gold, I probably wouldn't advertise it, and I would quietly start a new hobby - "cereal panning"! XD
Cheers! =)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago 10
iron is magnetic?????
Alexmh990 1 year ago 2
Just the big chunks will stick to the magent like this.. Normally, the iron in foods can't be extracted with a magnet, or even seen with the naked eye due to its extremely small size.
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Instead of eating nasty adult cereal,why cant we just bite off a piece of an iron pole or somethhing? I bet it would taste better! (just kidding i'd rather eat tasteless adult cereal rather than swallowing a chunk of the american flag pole.)
clubpenguin580 1 year ago
Actually, I think just licking an unpainted (and maybe slightly rusty) flagpole would suffice - no need to wreck your teeth! XD You could also eat a spoonful of dirt (don't chew, just swallow) since this type of iron is a lot like the natural elemental kind you can find in ordinary soil, perhaps embedded in a potato skin, carrot or other underground-growing food, but I think I prefer cereal too!
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte i dont like carrots, dirt or unpainted flagpoles, but ill eat potato skin!!
clubpenguin580 1 year ago
whoa !!!!! amazing !
ZandriaClark 1 year ago
It's an interesting experiment - easy to do and well worth doing just to see it in person! :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte it looks so fascinating as well as fun!! i use to eat cereal.. lots of it.. is it harmful? i guess i never really thought that iron in food actually was magnetic.
ZandriaClark 1 year ago
I guess iron is iron, although it takes pieces large enough to generate a sufficient counterfield to be picked-up with a magnet and seen with the naked eye. The best info I could find on reduced iron is that it's a lot like natural elemental iron you would get from garden/farm soil, or more obviously, that black dust you can find in dry river beds. It shouldn't be dangerous but it is odd that the chunks are so big in cereal, unlike the tiny invisible forms used in other foods/vitamins. :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte it's all so interesting !! and yr right why are they such large chunks of it in cereal. thank you for posting this vid jcmegabyte ! food for thought, pardon the pun..
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RanaRene1425 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing.... For those of u that thinks added metal to your daily breakfast is ok-u are surely mistaken... Trace amounts of this stuff will build up over time... Look how over weight America is- the food supply is trash... Eat organic whenever u can
gg6394 1 year ago 2
There certainly is a lot of weird stuff in most of our foods - stuff with names I can hardly pronounce! :-O
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
LMFAO! You people are retarded! Iron is a necessary to keep you healthy, all mammals need to inject small trace amounts of iron in food, it's natural and perfectly normal.
playthefield21 1 year ago
Indeed - iron is a critical mineral in human diets, but I still haven't found an answer as to why such large bits of reduced iron are used in cereal, while the reduced iron is virtually invisible (ground much finer) in other foods, like enriched flour, noodles, etc.
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte They aren't large in comparison with the total food content. It's not like they make up even half the mass of bit of cereal.
playthefield21 1 year ago
Yea, the percentage of iron-to-food seems reasonable, it was the actual particle size I was curious about. I tried this same experiment with other foods containing "reduced iron" (as opposed to "chelated" iron types used in vitamins and such), and could not find particles this large in any other foods, leading me to think that for some reason the reduced iron in cereal is intentionally not ground as finely for some reason. Maybe cost, maybe reactivity with milk... dunno...
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte That's most likely because cereal is somewhat artificially put together by humans instead of grown in the wild What do you mean by the particle size? All particles that constitute iron are the same size. Different foods have different trace amounts of iron in them so even if you take an equal amount of some other food and extract the iron content it might yield as much as you got from the cereal, but it's not any type of government conspiracy or anything.
playthefield21 1 year ago
Particle size is the physical size of each individual spec of iron that you can see in this video. Iron found naturally in food is normally colloidal, so microscopic that it's nearly molecular in size. Plant's root/vien structures can easily absorb/move it as needed. Minerals added to "fortified" foods are usually ground up very fine and become invisible when mixed into the food. The iron particles shown here are huge by comparison, can be seen with the naked eye and even stick a magnet...
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
@jcmegabyte They're only visible because you've collected them all together, individually spread amongst the food they aren't.
playthefield21 1 year ago