The New York Times has provided stunning verification of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that a popular breakfast cereal in the United States contains several artificial ingredients.

The former Democratic presidential candidate-turned-independent endorsed President-elect Donald Trump after suspending his 2024 campaign in August. On Thursday, Trump announced that he had named Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in his new administration.

Kennedy promised to address the chronic health problems facing Americans and to tackle “corruption” within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “make America healthy again.”

In an interview on MSNBC after Trump’s victory earlier this month, suggested Kennedy the second Trump administration could eliminate entire departments within the FDA: “In some categories, all their departments, like the nutrition department in the FDA, have to go. They are not doing their job. They are not protecting our children. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, and you go to Canada and it has two or three?”

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The New York Times released a report on Friday examining Kennedy’s views on artificial food ingredients, which specifically probed candidate Trump for his claims about Froot Loops using different ingredients in their American versus Canadian product.

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“Mr. Kennedy singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version,” the Times report said. “But he was wrong. The ingredient list is about the same, although the Canadian one has natural dyes from blueberries and carrots, while the American product contains red 40, yellow 5, and blue 1 dye, as well as butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab. chemical that is used “for freshness,” according to the ingredient label.”

The odd fact-check, which seemed to prove rather than disprove Kennedy’s point about the inclusion of artificial ingredients in the American version of the cereal, drew critics to mock the paper.

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“Spit out my coffee after reading this NYT ‘fact check’ of RFK Jr.,” X user Brad Cohn wrote in a post that has attracted over 4 million views on the social media platform.

He mockingly added: “As you can see, the ingredient list is completely identical, except that the American product contains formaldehyde, cyanide and almost undetectable levels of saxitoxin.”

“Read this ‘fact check’ on @RobertFKennedyJr from the NYT and tell me with a straight face that we don’t need a radical transformation of our media and health agencies,” Jason Howerton, CEO of digital REACH, posted on X.

“This is what passes for a ‘fact check’ at the New York Times,” said Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Points USA. wrote on X. “The media lie a lot, but luckily for us, they’re also VERY stupid.”

“This has got to be the stupidest ‘Fact Check’ on RFK Jr. at the New York Times…who approved this?” podcaster Jay Anderson posted on X.

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The New York Times did not immediately return a request for comment.

Kennedy’s appointment caused a wave of media reports with warnings from Democrats and medical professionals that Kennedy is a threat to public health and will “cost lives” because of his skepticism about vaccines.

Fox News’ Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.

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