Talk:Food fortification

message: Funny wording  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.61.87.43 (talk) 05:05, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "Risk factors for vitamin D deficiencies include:"

message: I moved a recently added paragraph to the top of the article, because it seemed somewhat out-of-place where it was.  We need citations for the claims that iron fortification is considered unethical by "many doctors" (see WP:Weasel), that most males over 35 suffer from iron overload (and some clarification, e.g. in which population group?),  that it is more common and serious than hypoferremia and that excess iron exacerbates many conditions, e.g. myocardial infarct.  I also removed the sentence about responsible doctors first testing a patient's blood serum level, as this is not precise enough, and possibly inaccurate:  If you have appreciable amounts of iron in your serum, isn't that a bit of a problem in itself? --Slashme 16:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  My recent addition of possible effects of iron on the gut microbiome were removed. However, I added this reference which is relevant to Western populations.  The concern is real and thoroughly discussed in that review. I don't know why this would be controversial. Iron supplementation is well known to cause intestinal stress. JamesPem (talk) 20:55, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron supplementation risks 

message: At WikiProject Food and Drink I've started the thread Food additives etc. ==> need merging. in hopes that some of the pages:
*Food supplements, 
*Food additive, 
*Food fortification, 
*Dietary supplement, 
*Food processing,  
*Bodybuilding supplement,  
*Nutraceutical, and 
*Nutrification (aka food enrichment)
can be merged/eliminated.  I hope that that thread will be a central place to discuss this somewhat messy situation.  I'll be adding this comment to each of the articles' Talk pages. --Hordaland (talk) 11:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Food additives etc. ==> need merging. 

message: "As early as 1755, pellagra was recognized by doctors as being a niacin deficiency disease." Surely the identity of the specific molecule niacin was not know in 1755!  This was a discovery of the 20th century. 107.3.80.227 (talk) 04:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "As early as 1755..."  

message: This seems factually wrong:  "Synthetic biology (i.e. addition of probiotic bacteria to foods) " 
 : synthetic biology has to do with altering the DNA whereas probiotic bacteria can be 100% unaltered and still be beneficial. Foods can fe fortified with naturally occurring ingredients and that option is currently missing from the list. Can an expert confirm & correct?
:Probiotic products are naturally found live bacteria added to foods with the idea of the bacteria reaching the large intestine and taking up residence. To my knowledge, no probiotics are genetically modified bacteria. Article changed accordingly. David notMD (talk) 22:52, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  ad. Types: List of ways to fortify foods is problematic / incorrect 

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message: "Retinol, the active form of Vitamin A, is toxic in a much lower dose than other forms, such as beta carotene" - Beta carotene is a precursor to vitamin A - it's something your body uses to make vitamin A.  It is not another form of Vitamin A, in the sense that calcium citrate and calcium carbonate can be considered two different forms of sources of calcium.  76.65.24.170 (talk) 01:25, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beta carotene is not a form of Vitamin A.