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Do you choose the option that has added vitamins? Enriched milk, vitamin-added orange juice, whatever! We believe we’re doing good for ourselves by getting as much vitamin nutrition as possible.
Catherine Price recently wrote a piece for the International NYT in which she raised some interesting points.
What does it do to our food options and diet habits to rely on vitamin-enriched foods? She says it probably makes us fail to notice that food manufacturers are successfully selling us unhealthy food by adding vitamins. Also, because we buy unhealthy foods like this, we develop habits to choose and live off unhealthy foods because we get used to eating these types of food.
Americans have never experienced serious vitamin deficiency (we require 13 chemicals to prevent disease in our bodies — like Rickets). Other nations face that problem, however.
So are we selecting unhealthy foods because they add vitamins, and are we becoming reliant on unhealthy, vitamin-added foods, and are we supporting an industry of unhealthy foods from which we select our diet?
