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Food Fortification
We've all seen how manufacturers proudly adorn their packaged products
with claims such as "Now enriched with extra this, that and the other
thing". The irony is that the manufacturers only bother to "enrich"
foods because they have removed or destroyed many vitamins and other nutrients
in the course of manufacturing the food. Breakfast cereals are a common
example of this.
The plus side of the coin is that manufacturers sometimes put back more
vitamin content than they removed from the food when they processed it.
The negative side is that not all the lost vitamins are replaced.
Perhaps the most common added vitamin seen on supermarket shelves is
vitamin C. There is a very logical reason for this in that C is the most
unstable of all the vitamins and very easily lost in food processing.
C is at its most stable form in fruit juices.
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