“Over 99% of British households buy bread and over a quarter of all groceries in the four biggest supermarkets contain flour, making adding folic acid to flour-based products a simple way to increase folate levels for tens of millions of people across the UK,” a 2021 press release from the UK government said.
Starting from the end of 2026, the Government proposes adding 250 microgrammes of folic acid per 100 grammes of flour. However, as Dr. Vernon Coleman explains, if pregnant women took their folic acid tablets as recommended, there would be no need to add it to our food.
The problem with adding folic acid to wheat flour, and so affecting the diets of everyone, is that people can have too much. And as Dr. Coleman describes below, too much folic acid has health consequences.
Folic acid does a lot of important stuff, some of it involving DNA and RNA. It’s more important than mobile phones, nail clippers or coconut ice. But if you eat a reasonably balanced diet, you will almost certainly get enough of the stuff. Women who don’t have enough are at risk of having very small babies, possibly, though rarely, with neural tube defects. And, of course and inevitably, it has been alleged that folic acid deficiency may be responsible for autism spectrum disorders. The medical establishment will blame autism on anything except vaccines.
But you can, of course, have too much of a good thing. You can have too much alcohol, too much caviar, too much television and too much folic acid.
One paper has shown that high doses of folic acid taken after pre-neoplastic lesions have been established might promote cancer development and progression....<<<Read More>>>...
