Comment by hilbert42
21 days ago
Presumably, if you're in the US or any of those countries that mandate folate then you don't eat bread or anything containing flour—or you have to get special flour without it.
I'd imagine that must be very difficult for you.
BTW, that fluoride reference refers to excessive fluoride in water whether natural or added. I've not entered the fluoride debate here except to ask a question. I'd certainly object if fluoride levels were excessive in my water supply.
It is difficult, but not impossible. Many bakeries do not add them to their dough and Whole Foods has some brands without them.
Do not get me started on the IMP and GMP they are adding to foods now...excitatory purine flavor enhancers in the form of things like "Malted Barely Flour"
https://www.eurofins.com/media-centre/newsletters/food-newsl...
https://www.cspinet.org/article/guanosine-monophosphate-gmp-...
https://www.cspinet.org/article/inosine-monophosphate-imp-di...
"Folate is an essential water-soluble B vitamin found in foods, including dark-green leafy vegetables and legumes."
The above quote from that Springer reference reminds me of plant toxins in common foods especially in dark-green leafy ones, spinach, rhubarb, etc. Oxalic acid is one of the main ones but there are many others.
If you worry about what you eat you ought to be concerned about these. It's understandable that these toxins exist in these plants as they use them as protection against insects etc. Incidentally, I use oxalic acid industrially and I'm very careful how I handle it.