MX records exist, but are not set in DNS settings

General Email Routing
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What is the issue you’re encountering

Cloudflare is the registrar and nameservers are pointed to cloudflare. I only have one CNAME configured in the DNS settings, yet somehow when I do MX lookup, the domain has Google Workspace MX records. How is this possible?

UPDATE: The domain is fostervitality.com.

Cloudflare DNS: https://cdn.zappy.app/672bbaf37d0fe437363de6fa1c87aef6.png
MX Lookup: https://cdn.zappy.app/5ad45418844ddb1ba066595916e1255f.png

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Those are the MX records for the target of your CNAME record. As you can’t have a CNAME at the root, Cloudflare automatically flattens it and copies the records of your target directly to your domain.

taleshakim.com.         300     IN      MX      1 aspmx.l.google.com.
taleshakim.com.         300     IN      MX      10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
taleshakim.com.         300     IN      MX      10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
taleshakim.com.         300     IN      MX      15 m2233br5tirvy3w6bf7dcgkcaaq3virsfuogbgfjn2h7lxnsfu7q.mx-verification.google.com.
taleshakim.com.         300     IN      MX      5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
taleshakim.com.         300     IN      MX      5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
;; Received 243 bytes from 2606:4700:58::adf5:3b61#53(dane.ns.cloudflare.com) in 4 ms

fostervitality.com.     300     IN      MX      1 aspmx.l.google.com.
fostervitality.com.     300     IN      MX      10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
fostervitality.com.     300     IN      MX      10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
fostervitality.com.     300     IN      MX      15 m2233br5tirvy3w6bf7dcgkcaaq3virsfuogbgfjn2h7lxnsfu7q.mx-verification.google.com.
fostervitality.com.     300     IN      MX      5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
fostervitality.com.     300     IN      MX      5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
;; Received 247 bytes from 172.64.32.132#53(lola.ns.cloudflare.com) in 5 ms
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