flour that isn't labelled as enriched in Canada is actually enriched
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"enriched white flour"
"unbleached flour"both are enriched in Canada by law, only the latter doesn't specify it on the labels of finished baked goods and other food products using it. The proof is buying raw unbleached flour in a bag, it will always be enriched in Canada, and labelled just like the enriched white flour with added folic acid and iron etc. The second proof is that in the nutritional info of products made using unbleached flour, the levels of iron stated support the fact that an enriched product is used, despite at no point this being mentioned on the ingredients label.
This is an oversight by the federal health authority, who are too inept to realize this and didn't draft their legislation or whatever it is called about it properly.
Unbleached flour is just white flour that hasn't been bleached. It is technically treated as white flour because, although it retains its more natural color, it still has the bran etc. removed and therefore is lacking nutrition.
The only way to get unenriched white flour or unenriched unbleached flour in Canada is to illegally smuggle it. USA doesn't mandate enrichment so there is a choice there, and many EU countries do not support fortification either. Italy and France don't, afaik. Since Type 00 white pizza flour is ideal for most pizza-making, the most ideal pizza cannot be legally made in Canada.
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@sushi_is_cringe sometimes it seems like there's a systematic plan to poison us
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@heretoday well-intentioned authoritarians tend to make it so.
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@sushi_is_cringe sounds right
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@heretoday said in flour that isn't labelled as enriched in Canada is actually enriched:
@sushi_is_cringe also what's the upside of having a functional electorate/over-site?
Less needy, less touchy. Humour/not humour.
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@ThinPicking yes
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Edited for the humour needs the context.