Talk:Enriched flour

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[edit] Enriched Flower Bad for you?

Does anyone know anything about some nutritionists saying that Enriched Flower is bad for you and should be avoided (along with things like High Fructose Corn Syrup? --Quasar 18:39, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

high-fructose corn syrup is pure sugar, with no nutritional benefit (other than calories).

Enriched flour certainly has more B vitamin than refined flour that hasn't been enriched. It's just that whole grain flour is better than enriched flour.

Have you heard about the glycemic index? --68.0.124.33 (talk) 03:36, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Diseases

I know that they started enriching flour to prevent diseases and I wanted to find out more about those diseases. However, this article doesn't state which diseases they are. Some research into this would be helpful.

• The diseases it helps to prevent would be those caused by deficiencies in the nutrients added back in to the flour. Examples would include folate deficiency and iron deficiency -Aqua 07:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)