Food Fortifications to Avoid

Chapter 5

Food Fortifications To Avoid

AVOID Vitamin A fortified foods, watch for these names:

• Vitamin A Palmitate
• Retinol Palmitate
• Retinyl Palmitate
• Vitamin A Acetate
• Retinyl Acetate
• “Vitamin A added”

AVOID Vitamin D fortified foods, watch for these names:

• Vitamin D3 aka Cholecalciferol
• Vitamin D2 aka Ergocalciferol
• “Vitamin D added”

ADDITIONAL AVOIDS:

• Citric acid added to foods or supplements (screws up copper metabolism)
• Mineral citrates (magnesium citrate, zinc citrate, potassium citrate, etc.), these are minerals bound to citric acid
• Carageenan and other gum thickeners added to foods (guar gum, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, basically anything with the last word being “gum”), these are significant gut irritants
• Generally avoiding any “fortified foods” is a good idea.  If you see vitamins or minerals on the ingredients list of any food, I would suggest generally avoiding it.