no more marmite...

::BLM:: · Post by **::BLM::** » Tue May 24, 2011 7:31 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ma ... ns-marmite

Ingemar · Post by **Ingemar** » Wed May 25, 2011 11:00 am

why do they ban vegemite and marmite?

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Wed May 25, 2011 11:58 am

Ingemar wrote:why do they ban vegemite and marmite?

because we have a stupid government.

simonb · Post by **simonb** » Wed May 25, 2011 12:09 pm

Isn't it Denmark who're continuing to threaten to tax saturated fat? Facepalm...

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Wed May 25, 2011 12:29 pm

simonb wrote:Isn't it Denmark who're continuing to threaten to tax saturated fat? Facepalm...

it's already in effect, but of course it's been made very badly, so again stupid rules not working as they should.

ChrisCV · Post by **ChrisCV** » Wed May 25, 2011 12:40 pm

Ingemar wrote:why do they ban vegemite and marmite?

it said on the news this morning that they banned because of a food scare with foods fortified with nutrients.

too much vitamin A causes various problems, especially for those who are preggers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A

so the Danish governemtn just banned everythign with additional nutrients.

ironically marmite has B-12 and folic acid which is advantagous through pregnancy to prevent anemia...

dyte · Post by **dyte** » Wed May 25, 2011 1:08 pm

I'd always thought that added vitamins (or vitamin tablets etc.) aren't absorbed as well as when they naturally occur in foods, due to their reliance on other molecules to get absorbed, so generally thought it was quite pointless in processed food (never eat anything like that anyway).

Though could be wrong, standard grade biology was a long time ago!

stevësto · Post by **stevësto** » Wed May 25, 2011 9:06 pm

that's mostly correct. most vitamin or nutrient deficiency is because of unbalanced intestinal flora preventing absorption. fortified foods and supplements rely on synthetic analogs, they dont have the perfect symbiotic balance nature provides in, you know, actual real food. whatever vitamin or nutrient its attempting to supplement mostly does not get absorbed and creates an imbalance to your bacteria in your intestine. all they do is make your pee look pretty and make your intestine work more like a sewer than a digestive system. this is all from studies recent (past ten years or so) because of improvements in technology we're able to accurately measure things we werent able to before. denmark is smart.