How many licks would it take? Can the iron in bars even be processed by the body? Can you do this for other minerals?

  • Davel23
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    I saw someone do a demonstration once, they took a box of “iron-fortified” breakfast cereal, dumped it into a bowl, then ran a magnet through it. The magnet picked up some of the dust from the bottom of the bowl, that dust being the tiny iron particles that were added to the cereal to “fortify” it.

    • Ech
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure why you’re putting those words in quotes as if they’re incorrect.

      • Davel23
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        11 year ago

        I put them in quotes as the word has no objective meaning as applied to a breakfast cereal, it’s simply a marketing term. I did not intend to imply that ingested iron particles are not a valid source of iron for human biology.

        • Ech
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          Fair enough. Personally I don’t think the words are an issue. It’s not medically applicable, but it’s just cereal, so *shrug*