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Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - Black - 04-04-2010
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20100404/D9ESH4BO1.html
If only it had nutritional value as well, you could eat it too.
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - freeradical - 04-04-2010
This a true story about Total cereal.
In a chemistry lecture I attended , the professor put a huge beaker on of those magnetic stirring plates with a small stirring magnet inside of it.
He then placed a container of Total cereal in the beaker along with water.
At the end of the lecture, he removed the stirring magnet, and it was covered with extremely fine iron filings.
This is how the manufacturer of Total cereal is able to claim such a high iron content in their cereal.
Of course the bioavailability of iron in this form is next to nothing.
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - deckeda - 04-04-2010
reminds me of the demonstration where they put a slice of bologna in a jar filled partly with cola. the cola eats through the bologna, however I'm not sure what that "proves."
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - wickedsteve - 04-05-2010
deckeda wrote:
reminds me of the demonstration where they put a slice of bologna in a jar filled partly with cola. the cola eats through the bologna, however I'm not sure what that "proves."
Don't believe everything you hear.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp
www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - Paul F. - 04-05-2010
"Mythbusters" brand cola didn't eat a steak, either.
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - deckeda - 04-05-2010
Mine was actually a vague memory from seeing it in a school science class once, but OK.
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - freeradical - 04-05-2010
Even weak acids can "cook" protein.
This is how lime juice is used to prepare ceviche.
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - The UnDoug - 04-05-2010
When I was a kid and had lost a tooth, I put it in a glass of soda, and the soda ate away at the tooth over the course of a week or so, as I recall.
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - richorlin - 04-05-2010
On the Total cereal, here's "The Straight Dope" from twenty years ago:
Do "iron fortified" cereals really contain iron filings?
November 16, 1990
Dear Cecil:
I saw a chemist's demonstration where a bowl of Total cereal was soaked in hot water (to dissolve the cereal). Then a white magnet was placed in the solution. Upon removal, the magnet was covered with tiny specks of metal, apparently iron.
A white magnet placed into a packet of "iron fortified" instant oatmeal and shaken around will also come out covered with tiny iron filings. Are these filings actually nutritious, or is this some terrible joke so these products can claim to be "iron fortified"?
— William B. Stockton, Washington, DC
Cecil replies:
Let's think about this, William. The stuff says "iron fortified." Experiments show it IS iron fortified. You figure this is some kind of deceitful practice? Like maybe it should say, "iron fortified and WE MEAN IT"?
Get with the program. Different iron compounds are used in different products and the particles may be different sizes, all of which affects how "biologically available" the stuff is. But yes, when a product says "iron fortified," that often means they put iron filings into it.
Let me add that the filings are tiny, on the order of a few dozen microns in diameter. The particles can range from straight powdered iron ("reduced iron") to compounds such as ferrous sulfate and ferric phosphate.
The stuff is "harmless and assimilable," it says here, and your body definitely needs it. Iron deficiency is common in the U.S. At one time the Food and Drug Administration even considered asking that higher levels of iron be added to more foods. (The plan died because of fears that more iron might trigger certain rare diseases.)
So eat, William. It's good for you. Just don't try walking through a metal detector afterward. For more information on iron and other food additives, read The Complete Eater's Digest and Nutrition Scoreboard by Michael Jacobson (1985).
— Cecil Adams
Re: Use for breakfast cereal discovered by Utah High School students - mrbigstuff - 04-05-2010
I love the Straight Dope. my local paper doesn't carry it in syndication any longer.