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Fortified means that vitamins or minerals have been added to the food in addition to the levels that were originally found before the food was refined. When foods are fortified, they will have more vitamins and minerals after ... Common fortified foods are: milk (fortified with vitamin D) and salt (fortified with iodine).
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Fortified foods are nothing new. Iodine was first added to salt in Michigan in 1924 in order to help reduce the prevalence of goiter, which had reached an alarming rate of 47% in that state. The measure worked so well that it led to the voluntary iodization of the product for the entire country.
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Promising better bang for the buck, products like orange juice fortified with calcium, called functional foods, are increasingly filling grocery store aisles — and our fridges. But do we really need them? ... "The idea of a supplement or fortified foods is to fill a gap, to bring a person up to the recommended intake,"
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You may not get all the nutritional benefits with these “functional foods. ... There’s been an explosion in foods fortified with vitamins and minerals. They’re called “functional foods,” and Americans spend billions of dollars a year on them. Your milk is fortified with Vitamin D;
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TABLE 1. Fortified foods ... Changes in nutrients' stability may depend on factors such as pH, oxygen, air, light, and temperature (table 3). These should be controlled during processing and storage of fortified foods. A good example is vitamin C, which is extremely unstable under several conditions, especially in high heat...
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According to a new study, fortified foods contribute significant amounts of vitamins and minerals to US children's diets. ... New Study Finds Fortified Foods Are Significant Contributors of Vitamins And Minerals to U.S. Children's Diets...
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Kansas City infoZine Food Article ... Ask Betty Crocker ; Fortified Foods ... Other commonly fortified foods are milk and margarines with vitamins A and D added, for example, or fruit juices and drinks with a big boost of calcium. Some readers will remember exactly when enriched foods first became commonplace on grocery shelves.
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FORTIFIED FOODS; 1:30 ; SUGGESTED INTRO: ... EXAMPLES OF FORTIFIED FOODS. WHEN YOU ... EATING FORTIFIED FOODS. THE NUTRIENTS...
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