Folic acid added to flour to lessen birth defects

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c206d60xe7no

by Alert-One-Two

16 comments

  1. > Folic acid is to be added to non-wholemeal wheat flour in the UK to help prevent birth defects.

    I heard it is a government conspiracy to make people gay.

  2. I thought we’d been doing this for years! Many countries do.

    Folic acid also supports other useful functions in the body

  3. The mentalists are freaking out over this as expected.

  4. So I’m not so sure that too many make their own flour based things rather than buy now… so is it going into the stuff the bread bakeries etc use too?

  5. Bread only needs a few ingrediants, idk why when you read the back of bread packets you read 30 ingrediants, most of which you cannot pronounce.

  6. I’m pretty sure other countries have been doing this for decades.

  7. What could possibly go wrong after all you can trust the government? right ?

  8. Shouldn’t women be taking folic acid when pregnant anyway though?

  9. They were on about this in the 90’s when my kids were born, now 27

  10. How much of this is due to the decrease in micronutrients in the soil? Asking as a genuine question?

  11. I took it as a supplement while pregnant with all my babies. Midwives advise it and its a few quid.

  12. I too also thought it was a thing. I think I got confused as I had read about Elsie Widdowson who campaigned for the fortifed foods including bread and cereals.

  13. Fortify pizzas with vitamins and minerals, I’m tired of meal prepping.

  14. > Prof Neena Modi, professor of neonatal medicine at Imperial College London, said: “This will disadvantage groups such as women who are sensitive to gluten, eat rice in preference to bread, and products made from wholemeal flour – excluding them and their babies from benefiting, and thus adding to the considerable health inequities that already exist in the UK.”

    How about you stop telling the British people what to adulterate their food with, dear. The UK was not created to solve ‘health inequities’ with ‘women who eat rice in preference to bread’; maybe India can spare some money from its space program to give you some folic acid in your rice.

  16. Long overdue. Next they should do iodised salt.

    (disregard this bit, its just to overcome the stupid automod min comment length)

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