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Here’s a new one for the foul food files: Cap’n Crunch’s Cozmic Crunch. The fruit-flavored cereal comes with a packet of orange “space dust” inside. Instructions on the box tell diners to sprinkle the dust on top of dry cereal, pour on the milk and watch it turn green.

Confused? The side of the box has a Green-O-Meter to help make sense of it all. Apparently, the space dust helps detect whether an alien is present in your cereal bowl. (One would think aliens would pick a more exciting place to land.)

Use one-eighth teaspoon of the orange dust and the milk will turn only slightly green, which means an alien presence is suspected. But pour on a full half-teaspoon and your cereal may start to resemble an algae-filled pond. That means an alien is definitely in your midst.

Of course, the space dust also turns your mouth green. But don’t worry. There’s a note on the box for parental units: “Top researchers have come to the conclusion that this color will wear off. Eventually.”