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Article: Folic acid: once overlooked, now a nutrient on the brink of stardom.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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Check the fine print. The wrapper around that enriched loaf of wheat in your bread box is sporting a new label. As of January 1, manufacturers must add folic acid to all enriched products, including flour, bread, rolls, grits, corn meal, farina, rice, pasta and noodles.
Folic acid joins fellow B vitamins, thiamin, riboflavin and niacin, and the mineral iron, all of which have been enriching refined wheat products for over 50 years. (Note: Folic acid is the form of the vitamin found most often in your body and the form added to foods and supplements. Folate is the form found naturally in foods. Folacin is a collective term for these and other forms of the ...