Enriched Foods Are Damaged FoodsEnriched foods have select synthetic vitamins added to replace those lost during processing. It sounds like it may be healthy eating to eat foods enriched with nutrients. However, consider this... Heavy processing caused the loss of nutrients. What manufacturers are doing is replacing nutrients in the same proportion as existed before they damaged the food in processing. Yet, they are not replacing all the nutrients. Only the major vitamins and/or minerals are replaced. Lost are the trace nutrients. All your food has trace nutrients. Science is just now discovering the value of these trace elements in the body's ability to fully utilize the major nutrients. Then there is the source of these replaced nutrients that needs to be considered. The vitamins used to replace those lost in processing are synthetic. They do not come from natural sources, like food for instance. These synthetic vitamins appear to be the exact chemical compound of the naturally occurring one. Vitamins and minerals are used by your body's cells. It is their job to let only things in that promote survival for the cell and thus the whole body. Do you think that your cells can be so easily fooled into accepting fake food when it's survival depends on the cells actions? A rhetorical question. Enriched foods commonly available are:
Your best choice is to select foods that use the whole grain. An example would be whole wheat flour. Please note that flour and wheat flour are the same thing. Flour is most commonly made with wheat in North America. As a result, over time flour has become the short form for saying wheat flour-it is a synonym. I mention this because breads may say enriched wheat flour. At first glance you may think it is made with 100% whole wheat. It is not. Only products containing 100% whole wheat can be so labeled. So for healthy eating, you would select foods that have not been heavily processed and therefore don't need to be enriched foods. The least amount of processing food undergoes, allows for the most amount of nutrients to remain intact.
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