The New York Times surprisingly confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that a popular breakfast cereal in the United States contains many artificial ingredients.

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

Kennedy promised Combating the chronic health problems faced by Americans and combating “corruption” within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an effort to “Make America Healthy Again.”

In an interview on MSNBC following Trump’s victory earlier this month, Kennedy suggested The second Trump administration may eliminate entire departments at the FDA: “In some categories, entire departments need to go, like the nutrition department at the FDA. They’re not doing their job. They’re not protecting our children. Why do we have 18 or 19-ingredient Froot Loops in this country, and when you go to Canada you get two or Are there three?”

President-elect Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head HHS. (Getty Images)

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New York Times On Friday, he released a report analyzing Kennedy’s views on artificial food ingredients, specifically fact-checking the Trump candidate’s claims about Froot Loops, which use different ingredients in U.S. products compared to Canadian ones.

“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,” the Times report said. “But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, but Canada’s has natural colorants made from blueberries and carrots, while the US product contains red dye 40, yellow 5, and blue 1, as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a laboratory product,” according to the ingredient label. A chemical used ‘for freshness’.”

The bizarre fact-check, which proved rather than disproved Kennedy’s claim that artificial ingredients were included in the US version of the cereal, caused critics to mock the paper.

Former President Trump meets Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23, 2024. While shaking hands with. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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X user Brad Cohn wrote: “I’m spitting out my coffee after reading this ‘fact check’ by RFK Jr. in the NYT.” A post that received over 4 million views on the social media platform.

He added sarcastically: “‘As you can see, the ingredient list is exactly the same, except the US 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 healthcare institutions,” said REACH digital CEO Jason Howerton. sent to x.

“This is what passes for a ‘reality check’ in The New York Times,” Turning Points USA founder Charlie Kirk said wrote to x. “The media lies a lot, but fortunately for us, they are also VERY stupid.”

“This has to be the dumbest ‘Fact Check’ the New York Times has ever done on RFK Jr….who approved this?” podcast host Jay Anderson sent to x.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waves to the crowd during a campaign rally for former President Trump on August 23, 2024 in Glendale. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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

Kennedy’s candidacy sparked a wave of reaction media reports Democrats and medical experts say Kennedy a threat to public health and “will cost lives” because of his skepticism of vaccines.

Fox News’ Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.