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A comestible/food product to which various nutrients—e.g., vitamins and minerals—have been added to compensate for essential nutrients removed by refinement

enriched food

A processed food that has lost nutrients during milling, grinding, pasteurization, or other processes and then had those nutrients added back to the marketed product. Two examples of vitamins commonly used in food enrichment are vitamins B₁ and B₂, thiamine and riboflavin, respectively.

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Salt was enriched with iodine in the US beginning in the 1920s-one of the earliest enriched foods. And in the 1940s flour began to be enriched with several B vitamins and iron, and optionally calcium.

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This is attributed in part to the occurrence of sugars in wholesome, vitamin enriched foods that are a valuable source of fuel and the unpleasant biting flavor of alkaloids present in harmful plants (McGee 562).

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Answer: Folic acid, also known as folate, is a B-vitamin that can be found in some enriched foods and vitamin pills.

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Growing demand for bulk botanical extracts in nutraceuticals will spur further advances, although savvy consumers are increasingly discerning in their purchases of dietary supplements and enriched foods. This will decrease demand for less effective extracts.