Fortify Yourself With IRON
If, like many of us, you see the encouraging words ‘fortified with iron‘ or, ‘a great source of iron‘ splashed across a myriad of food labels these days you could be forgiven for thinking you are doing the right (healthy) thing by assuming that if it says that, then surely…it must be good for me – right? In most cases – No. But perhaps more to the point – do we really understand the role that iron plays in our body? FoodEssentials investigates, and discovers there’s more to Iron than science labs and iron gates!
Iron is one of the most vital minerals needed in our diet because of it’s important functions in the body. Among other things, it carries oxygen around the body, helping our bodies to grow and repair themselves, whilst keeping our immune system on top form. Read more
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Enrichment and Fortification of Processed Foods
by Shereen Jegtvig
Food manufacturers enrich their products when they replace nutrients lost during processing. For example, adding B vitamins to the white refined flour used to make bread. Enrichment doesn’t necessarily make the refined flour as healthy as whole grain flour because the fiber isn’t replaced, but adding the B vitamins back into the flour is certainly better than nothing.
Fortification is when food manufacturers add nutrients to foods that wouldn’t normally be present. This can range from the well accepted (vitamin-fortified breakfast cereals and vitamin D added to milk) to the just plain odd (Diet Coke with vitamins?). Some fortified foods are called functional foods, which mean they provide some health benefit beyond the usual nutrition profile for that food. Like margarine made with plant sterols that have been shown to reduce cholesterol levels with regular use. Read more
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