no more marmite...
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it said on the news this morning that they banned because of a food scare with foods fortified with nutrients.Ingemar wrote:why do they ban vegemite and marmite?
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...
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!
Though could be wrong, standard grade biology was a long time ago!
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.