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- Newsgroups: sci.med.nutrition
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- From: jil@uts.uucp (Jamie Lubin)
- Subject: Re: Enrichment/nutrient replacement question
- Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:04:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.140417.5261@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <92364.123849LAURA@UCF1VM.BITNET> Laura Kittleson <LAURA@UCF1VM.BITNET> writes:
- >I have read printed articles, as well as postings to this group,
- >that state or imply that "replaced" nutrients and vitamins in
- >enriched breads and cereals are not as good as what might have
- >been in the food to begin with.
- >
- >How come?
-
- As Elizabeth Schwartz & Bernie Simon have already pointed out, the extracted
- fiber is one of the biggest losses in going from whole grain to "enriched"
- products. Elizabeth & I also already mentioned that another big factor is
- that they're not even putting back all the known nutrients (& of course can't
- put back the other "unknown" factors). Finally, Bernie pointed out that there's
- a difference between synthetic and natural vitamin E. There are differences
- in other vitamins too (e.g., vitamin C, as been shown thru chromatographic
- techniques--E. Pfeiffer, M. Justa Smith, etc.). Basically, if you get a
- vitamin from a natural source (natural food), there are accompanying factors,
- enzymes, catalysts, etc. which enhance it. If you were to strip all of these
- away, what you'd have left would probably only be comparable to the synthetic.
-