Author Topic: Mandatory Fortifiication of wheat flour for bread making... (not really TMX) (Read 30869 times)

~Narelle~ · « **on:** September 09, 2009, 11:59:56 pm »

Hi
just wondering what the Aus TMX users think about the mandatory fortification with folic acid of wheat flour for bread making (and therefore will be in lots of other things bought in a bakery) that becomes law on Sunday?

Is it going to change anything you buy/do etc?

I don't like the idea of it, more additives etc and some nutritionists think that pg ladies (the target audience) are going to need supplements as well. I would hate to see neural defects rise cause women relied on wheat flour.

So wdyt?

Edited: I wrote fornication instead of fortification in the title!

brazen20au · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2009, 12:05:26 am »

hehe at the fornication

i think it's shocking. i cannot believe it is going to happen. so glad i don't eat bought bread, though unfortunately my kids won't eat homemade bread

~Narelle~ · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2009, 12:18:25 am »

My kids are the same Karen. So unavoidable unless we go organic bread and that is not high on their wish list either!

Meagan · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2009, 01:57:30 am »

wow

I had no idea!!

~Narelle~ · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2009, 02:34:56 am »

I did either Meagan until my local flour supplier told me. Here is the link to Food Standards http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/newsroom/factsheets/factsheets2009/mandatoryfolicacidfo4389.cfm

Interestingly NZ have backed out of it. I wish it was not mandatory but optional.

Chelsea (Thermie Groupie) · « **Reply #5 on:** September 10, 2009, 05:26:18 am »

It makes me shudder just thinking about it. Cyndi O'Meara talks about food at the present (packaged food) as being the "greatest human experiment of all time" and I think this is yet another example. It's homemade bread or hungry for us (the kids are still too little to put up a good defense).

cookie1 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 10, 2009, 05:27:45 am »

I am really undecided as my brother and his wife had a beautiful daughter born with spina bifida who only survived 5 weeks. Hopefully folate will help others from this nasty problem in babies. But then on the other hand I don't want folate in my bread as I'm not really sure what it could do to me and my family. At the moment we're only having 5 seed bread but will the folate go into Baker's Flour?

~Narelle~ · « **Reply #7 on:** September 10, 2009, 05:32:05 am »

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will the folate go into Baker's Flour?

Yep that's what it is going in to. It is going in to wheat flour for bread making. So anything that is made with bread flour will have it. So premixes, muffins from the bakery etc. pastries etc.

So sorry to hear about your niece Cookie

cookie1 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 10, 2009, 06:34:51 am »

Thank you Narelle, it was about 10 or so years now. It was weird, she was such a beautiful baby, as though she wasn't to be here for long, which was true. All the family have lots of photos though.

faffa_70 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 10, 2009, 08:14:57 am »

On the web page (from the link above) it says that Australian millers are rquired to add folic acid (a form of the B vitamin folate) to wheat flour for bread-making purposes...does this mean that they will be adding it to the flour that we also buy to make our home made bread??

Ceejay · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2009, 08:23:05 am »

Correct Katherine!

faffa_70 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2009, 08:26:03 am »

Then Ceejay that means that we can't avoid it whether we like it or not!! Now that bit I don't like!!

~Narelle~ · « **Reply #12 on:** September 10, 2009, 09:28:19 am »

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that means that we can't avoid it whether we like it or not!

And that is the bit that annoys me. I would prefer the choice.

Chelsea (Thermie Groupie) · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2009, 12:39:07 pm »

Can you buy spelt flour suitable for breadmaking?? That may be a way to avoid it?

~Narelle~ · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2009, 01:10:04 pm »

Yep spelt and I will be more I guess. Still haven't found a recipe that I would use for everyday bread though. Will have to experiment more.

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