Folic Acid.

I have been low in folic acid in the past and had to take 3 months course of folic acid tablets prescribed by my GP to stop it happening again I take a daily folic acid tablet everyday. I am 68.

They add lot of vitamins and minerals into food. And have done for decades . Not everyone eats a healthy diet or cooks from scratch its a way of trying to make the country healthier.

I am old enough to remember when a lot of babies where born with spina bifida( not spelt correctly) and it was found it was lack of folic acid.

I became a veggie this year not through choice but because meat,poultry and fish made me choke due to a rare hereditary neurological condition. Even stewing the meat and poultry to death and shredded still choked. I do have a heathly diet but because of my health can't cook everyday so make enough stew with Quorn mince or chicken pieces or brown sausages cut into small pieces but plenty of veg and pulses.

Since my first mammogram was told to take combined vitD ,calcium and vit K tablet.

I also take B12,cod liver oil, folic acid and vitamin C daily .

At least we don't live in USA where they have even more additives many bad for you .

By the way, it's a fairly recent addition to the Niacin, Thiamin etc. that have been added to our flour for years.

I'm pretty sure this was discussed recently on here but it may have been part of another thread.

It is in all UK flour except 100% wholemeal.

If you don't want it and don't want wholemeal you will need to buy imported flour from (say) Italy.

I take prescribed folic acid. Ignore media nonsense.

My last blood test showed low folic acid . So I was prescribed a 3 month course, which I duly took.
I have to book another blood test soon, to evaluate the results.
Btw I am far from young. In fact I’m a grandmother. I thought my diet was pretty good, but there you go !

Maybe it's because it's an important vitamin in early pregnancy. Putting it in flour presumably means that most pregnant women, even if their pregnancy's unplanned, will get the vitamin this way (unless they have coeliac disease I suppose).

Not bothered at all, it’s good for you in those sort of doses and naturally in leafy greens.
I’ve not see anything in the media?