Cereal Company Mystery Ingredients

Published 2022-10-18
Movie Guide Questions below!
Was your cereal magnetic? Learn the truth behind magnetic cereals and experiments to see just how magnetic your cereal is.

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Magnetic Cereal: Movie Guide
Premovie
1. What sorts of foods do you eat that might possibly be magnetic?

2. What do you think could make a food magnetic?

Movie
3. Of the three cereals listed, which one will likely be the MOST magnetic? Why would you think that?

4. Describe the results of putting Total cereal, Cherios, and Almond Flakes in Water with a magnet close by.

5. Based on data from the labels, which cereals should be the most magnetic?

6. Explain how to extract the magnetic substance from the cereal.

7. What is the magnetic substance used for in your body?

Post Movie
8. Continued research…Look up the two different types of Iron. Where do does each source come from?

9. What percentage of each type of iron is absorbed by the body?

10. Name 3 foods that have each type of iron.

11. Is overdosing on iron dangerous?


12. Find a disease that deals with absorbing too much iron. What is the disease and how would a person with that diseases lifestyle be altered.



Music Attribution
Elvish Presto by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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All Comments (12)
  • WOW to the scientist that discovered magnets in our cereal 😱😱 Much love to you from the East Coast, Flemdog!!! 🥰❤
  • @jesseshort8
    Big Walmart guy, huh? 😆 Wish I had a cool science teacher like you back in school. Keep it up Flemdog!
  • @edht2
    Sooo cool, never new there was that much metal in cereal! :)
  • @austinc691
    I think women need more iron due to blood loss. Another great video!
  • @Raul28153
    the interesting thing for me is that they didn't even bother to make the mineral ionic which would have made it so much more bio-available to our digestive systems
  • Iron or Chemical element ("Symbol: Fe" - "Atomic number: 26") On the periodic table of chemical elements dude! 👍
  • Women need more iron, just another excuse for me to eat more of that magnetic cereal!