Fortified flour is GOOD for you 🍞 a quick history lesson 📚 time for school

[gjg]

This is why I make my own bread. I can add all the ground up bones I want.

[BrideMcMason]

I'm glad the Riddler cleared this up for us

[colorfulmoth]

I dislike the amount of disinformation that is around in social media. Thanks for doing this!

[georgelane]

Fortified bread is bad for you, but not because it has been fortified. It's bad for you relative to wholegrain bread because fortification doesn't co.pensate fully for the damage done making flour white.

[ICatheraTashaI]

Technically the dodgy bakers who used powdered bone in their bread WERE adding calcium to it.

[epikmantherd]

A bit late to the party, but chalk, sawdust, and bone are not even close to the worst things bakers at the time put in bread. And to put an american context in, enroched flour contains niacin, which if you dont have in sifficient quantitities will give you pellagra. Pellagra was particulatly prevalent in the American south with some nasty complications.

[clubley]

I saw that guy's videos pop up from time to time. He always felt like the kind of person that thinks anything with chemicals is bad, not knowing that everything is chemicals. "Sodium chloride? Must be bad for you."
He's ill informed but acts like he's an expert. Unfortunately it means people trust his ideas.

[HumorDash]

No one here gonna talk about how for 40 years they have been spraying our food with glycosate which is a cancer causing ingredient found in roundup.

[peepiepo]

It's incredibly ironic that both chalk and bonemeal are high sources of calcium.

[cowgoRAWR]

In case you didn't know Henry III also became King at 9 years old. He was led into power by a knight who was in his 70s and defended the kings power against rebels and the French. King Henry III also was the first king to follow and recognize the Magna Carta's legitimacy.

[melly]

My grandad used to talk about this all of the time! It’s crazy how little people understand about the history of food and food safety, and how easy it is for people to jump on to a trend

[sulski]

The issue isn't that it's fortified. The issue is that it needs to be fortified

[hughjass]

The standards for bread are also what birthed the baker's dozen, where bakers included an extra loaf with an order of a dozen, to make sure he didn't accidentally sell bread underweight, as the punishment was severe

[zareien]

"processing" is an incredibly broad term ffs!!! Almost all food has to be processed in one way or another.
We have to end the trend of demonising particular terms or foods, because nothing in nutrition and health is that simple

[serenitysealed]

My nutrition professor worked with the bread companies to fortify bread to treat rickets. Years later when I had children, they had to research what I thought was basics and discovered that even the local universities did not have the information that had been disseminated decades earlier in my nutrition class. Thank you professor McGinty.

[cnitevedi]

enriched flour is a good thing in the sense that nutrients are added back, but also an indicator that it isn't whole grain bread, which has natural fiber that helps in digestion & avoids constipation

[dannywhite]

99% of food conspiracy theories can be countered by saying "no these things were done to stop horrible things happening, and the reason you say we don't need it now is because it worked so well"

[omaimaf]

It’s like how in many countries salt has iode in it to prevent iodine deficiency which is common in landlocked areas since the main source of iode is seafood.

[themagicpickle]

Im convinced that "fitness" grifters just grab random products and see a random ingredient and think "i gotta make a tiktok"

[dubya]

If ONLY calcium, iron, thiamine and niacin were removed during the milling of white flour, and ONLY those substanced define the health differences, then adding them back _should_ do the trick.

If not, then consider that the first guy _might_ have a point.

Do we have even a murine study that shows that there is no difference in health outcome, all other things being common?

I am not so sure.