Does sugar bind iron?

Question

I did a science fair experiment where i extracted the iron from cereal. I took different kinds of cereals, put them with water in a blender, and then mixed it. This produces a kind of goop that I swirl a magnet around in. When the magnet comes up it will have a certain amount of iron on it. I then compare that iron on that magnet to the iron content the cereal is supposed to have, (I.E 25% of your daily needs) and then compare that to other cereals and what they say they have. For example, if Total has 100% of your daily iron, and Lucky Charms has 25% of your daily iron, I would expect to see ¼ of the iron on the Lucky charms magnet that I see on the Total magnet. But frosted flakes produced no iron even though it has the standard 25% iron. I was wondering if sugar somehow binds the iron to the sugar or corn mean or something else so that i cant take it out.

Answer 1

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