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Why do they put iron your cereal?

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to make you Strong and healthy

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Iron is found in many foods such as dark green veggies and red meat. It is essential to have iron in your bloodstream to carry oxygen to your different body parts. Cereal companies add iron and other vitamins and minerals to their products because most breakfast cereals contain very little nutrients besides carbohydrates.

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Some cereals are fortified with iron because they want to make sure kids have enough iron. It is crucial when growing up to make sure you have enough vitamins and minerals to be healthy and stay healthy.

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It is essential to have iron in your bloodstream to carry oxygen to your different body parts.

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Is Eggo cereal an high in iron cereal?

Eggo cereal is about 25% Iron in the 12 servings.


Are the minerals found in cereal the same as minerals that naturally occur?

Yes. Cereal companies put iron and copper and magnesium and etc. etc. etc. for your blood benifets


Is iron listed as a compound or an element in Total cereal?

The iron in total cereal is elemental iron shavings which can be extracted from the cereal with a strong magnet after it has been ground to a powder and mixed with water.


How do you extract iron from cereal with a magnet?

MaterialsA piece of paperMortar & pestleMagnetic stirrerA magnetSome tap waterPlastic bagProcedure:1) Obtain as close to exactly one serving cereal as possible (by mass). Write down its mass.2) Crush the cereal to a fine powder in the mortar and pestle, you may have to do it a little at a time. The more finely ground the cereal is, the easier it will be to get the iron.3) Put the crushed cereal on a piece of paper. Run the magnet over crushed cereal several times, shaking the cereal around so you don't miss any particles.4) Look for the black in iron on the magnet.5) Collected the crushed cereal from the pieces of paper and put it on the plastic bag.6) Cover the crushed cereal in your plastic bags with tap water.7) Let crushed cereal desalted into the water.8) Run the magnet inside your plastic bags several times, shaking the cereal around so you don't miss any particles.9) Remove the magnet and collect your iron on the clean pieces of paper.(but before putting the iron on the pieces of paper u should take the mass of the paper) let it the iron dry for a minutes.10) When the iron is dry find the mass of the iron alone. Put the piece of paper with the dry iron on top of the scale and subtract the number that the scales reads form the mass of the paper that was taken before.11) When subtracting the mass of paper alone and the mass of the iron with the paper will give the amount of iron.


What cereal has the least iron in it?

"Zero-Iron Crunch"


How is iron put into cereal?

in the factories were they make the cereal the machines mix the mixing liquid of the cereal and the it goes through the machine which is called the metalicial engine and then it puts tiny bits of metal through the particals and then they shape each individual bits of cereal and then get put in boxes to sell!!


Is vermicelli a cereal?

no its not a cereal but it can be put in cereal


How do you get the iron out of total cereal?

you cant


What cereal has iron fortified?

Total


How much iron is added to cereal supplements?

It really depends on the type of cereal.


What is some background information on iron in cereal?

There are many iron containment in cereal. Iron helps build red blood cells. Without Iron, we could get tired a lot, and get more diseases.


Does all cereal have the same amount of iron in it?

No, it depends on the natural and fortified ingredients of the cereal.