Not sure why this did not post to recent posts section when I posted it. This seems to happen a lot these days when I post a new thread...it never makes it there.


And now after i post this one it does not show up as well ???????

[edit on 6/8/2009 by CaptGizmo]

[edit on 6/8/2009 by CaptGizmo]

I just watched the videos and I never thought you could pull iron filings out of cereal heh...

My question is who decided what vitamins and minerals we needed... why is iron on there if it has to be ingested like this... or is there another form we are supposed to consume?

Wow, I always considered reduced iron as a motified iron supplement, not literally iron.

While I do not eat breakfast ceral, I do know people that enjoy a bowl every morning.

I have noticed many products that list reduced iron in their ingredients!

My eyes are now open and I will inform others, thank you!

S&F

Ciao!!!

Amazing footage!

I've seen the cornflake/magnet thing on a TV series called Brainiac (Sky1)
But to see the iron contents stripped from the cereal is a real eye opener

S&F for you!

Hey! I did this with bran flakes using a magnetic stirrer back in Science class. We let them run overnight, and an amazing amount of iron filings showed up.

Iron by itself isn't necessarily bad for you! Only the heavier metals cause poisoning 'cause they're more reactive. You could eat a penny (not that it's iron) and it wouldn't do anything (just excrete it out), kinda like corn really.

I'd like to see some evidence that there's cause for concern. I'm not saying there isn't, I just don't see anything here that gives me any reason to be upset. The guy in the second video at the end says something like "Is this something that we want to be putting into our bodies? I don't think so." But what qualifies him to come to that conclusion? He stated no credentials which means to me that it's merely opinion and quite possibly completely uninformed paranoia.

Just last night I finished off a box of Frosted Flakes. There were quite a few little black specks in it. I wondered what they were. I picked out what I saw but I imagine I ate a few too.

That's a big bowl of cereal that guy is testing.

Okay, I put the black specks in a tissue the night I ate the cereal. I found the tissue, which I folded so it still had the specks in it. I got my magnets out and the specks were not attracted to them. So the specks are not metalic. Thank goodness. I wonder what they are though?

Am I the only one who thought of X-Men, where Magneto is in the plastic prison, and pulls all of the iron out of the guard's body. It really is harmful folks!

But in all seriousness, the amounts of iron found in those videos disturbed me. I mean, you get iron in a lot of food - naturally ocurring - one example would be that it ocurrs in the soil, at a molecuar level, is taken up by plants as they do with minerals, and this is then ingested by us, where it works to fortify the blood.

With these iron filings found in food, it can only be detrimental, the pieces are too big to digest, and could accumulate in the body, causing internal damage through its toxic nature.

Bad juju I think.