This New York Times “gotcha” is as pungent as a soggy bowl of cereal.

The Times was mercilessly mocked over the weekend for appearing to inadvertently make a point. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.His case in a recent article that tried to poke holes in his fight against processed food.

Kennedy, president-elect Election of Donald Trump to head the Department of Health and Human Serviceshas long pushed for artificial ingredients to be purged from the food supply, routinely calling such additives “poison.”

The Times published a report on Friday story Kennedy’s lineage suggests that the stance he takes while potentially running the agency could put him on a collision course with Big Food; The outlet warned that this could jeopardize Republicans’ long-standing friendly relations with the multibillion-dollar industry.

“Mr. Kennedy singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product containing too many artificial ingredients and questioned why the Canadian version contained less than the U.S. version,” Gray Lady writers wrote about the colorful Kellogg’s cereal that was often criticized by RFK Jr.

“But he was wrong,” the article continued authoritatively, before delivering the decisive fatal blow that would shatter Kennedy’s false beliefs.

“The ingredient list is roughly the same, but Canada has natural colorants made from blueberries and carrots, while the US product contains Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical used alongside red dye 40, yellow 5, and blue 1.” According to the ingredient label, it is ‘for freshness’, the report said.

Ingredients such as artificial food dyes are among the ingredients RFK Jr. frequently opposes, especially in products marketed toward children.

The unfortunate juxtaposition of Canada’s naturally derived ingredients and the USA’s artificial chemical dyes (complete with an unpronounceable, science-like additive) was mercilessly mocked in one newspaper. x post Turning Point is the work of USA founder Charlie Kirk, which has been watched more than half a million times.

“Wait, so RFK Jr. said it completely right, but they didn’t like the way he said it?” wrote an incredulous user X.

Another person joked: “They’re the same, just different right? that makes sense… Of course it does.”

Referring to Trump’s decisive election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, one X writer said: “This. That’s exactly why they lost. Everything about this particular part of this particular article is why we win and they lose.

Red 40, Yellow 5 and Blue 1 all Chopping block in CaliforniaIt mandates that food manufacturers replace artificial ingredients with naturally derived alternatives by 2027 or face being banned from vending machines and cafeterias in schools across the state.

Supporters of the ban say the dyes have been linked to developmental and behavioral problems in children.