I found out something which I thought was interesting this past week. Do you know what the difference is between vitamin enriched food like enriched flour and food that is fortified with vitamins?

Enriched food means that vitamins or minerals have been added to the food. The vitamins and minerals are added to replace the original vitamins and minerals that were stripped and lost during the refining process. For example, if the food originally had iron, but the iron was lost during the refining process, the food will be 'enriched' to add the iron back into the food.

We often mistakenly think enriched means 'added vitamins and minerals'. Enriched simply means to replace what was lost during the refining process.

Fortified means that vitamins or minerals have been added to the food over an…