Knowledge about Enriched Foods

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Do you know about  a real goldmine for the food industry. When you see the word "enriched" on the label, it makes you think of it as a healthy, healthy and nutritious. That is exactly what the food industry would like you to think, but actually it is just the opposite.

Let's use wheat as an example. Nature kernel of wheat consists of three parts: the bran, germ and endosperm. Bran tough outer shell of the nucleus. It contains plenty of fiber and certain vitamins and minerals.

Germ portion of which a new plant will grow. This is the most nutritious of the three because it contains many natural vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids. Finally, the white part of the endosperm, which contains mostly starch, plus a small amount of vitamins and minerals.

People are made of flour from whole grain kernels since biblical times. Flour, dark, rough and grainy. Bread from this flour is hard to chew and does not look as good as a fluffy white bread. Of course, it's much healthier than all of the fibers and nutrients. This kind of bread we were meant to eat.

But we have been taught, like white bread, made entirely of endosperm. In the end, it looks and feels much better, and it almost melts in your mouth. But what about nutrition? Nutritionally speaking, it is next to nothing. After the bran and germ are removed (which, incidentally, can be purchased separately at a much higher cost) more than 30 vitamins, minerals and essential oils, partially or completely lost.

You lose almost all of the vitamins B1 and B6, about 80 percent potassium, iron and magnesium, more than 50 percent of other B vitamins, 50 percent linoleic acid (fatty acids), more than 25 percent of high quality protein and significant amounts of zinc, boron, manganese, iodine, sulfur, phosphorus, folic acid, vitamin E and choline.

To make it look white flour is processed chemical called benzoyl peroxide. The name may be familiar, because it is the main ingredient in acne creams.

Bleached white flour so nutritionally poor, that around World War II the U.S. government got involved and forced millers to fortify it with some synthetic vitamins. Since 1941, white flour is "enriched" with synthetic vitamins B1, B2, B3 and iron. In 1998, the synthetic folic acid was added as well.

Thus, about 30 natural nutrients have been removed and 5 synthetic chemicals have been added. If the robber took all the money, jewelry, watches and all other values, and then gave you $ 1.00 for bus fare, would you feel enriched?

So if you see the word "enriched" on the label, know that it is nutritionally inferior product that will make you put on more weight and increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.