
Ep 98 Folate: Marmite, anyone?
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Follat Is a Big Story. It's So Important
In many countries, fortification programmes in which polic acid was added to grains began. And the results from these studies were so very strong, so very compelling, that they led to near immediate changes in the recommendations for fullate intake. So far, it does m as though these programmes have had a substantial impact on the incidents of neural tube defects compared to places without fortification programmes. It's also complicated, because there are genetic and other components to this pholic acid nerltube defect story. I want to end this history section with a quote from a paper published in two thousand and four by mike lucock about phulic acid. How ver, in the field of functional foods,
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