NHS caution on who can take folic acid - U.K. legislation forcing folic acid into flour from December 2026

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In 2021 the NHS guidance on folic acid included this:

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In 2026 the NHS website includes this wording about who can take folic acid:

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From December 2026, U.K. flour will have [synthetic folate] folic acid added by law:

The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024

These Regulations amend the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/141) (“the 1998 Regulations”).
www.legislation.gov.uk www.legislation.gov.uk

Some medical professionals are concerned about this move:



Some technical explanation as to why folic acid differs from natural dietary folate:

Fauxlate — Folic acid is not folate

Synthetic folic acid is not the same as natural folate. From December 2026 the UK will mandate it in non-wholemeal flour. The evidence deserves a closer look.
fauxlate.org

A U.K. parliamentary petition to sign if you feel that compulsory dosing of all flour is not what you want our legislators to do:

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately

We call on the Government to stop the fortification of flour with synthetic folic acid. Folic acid is a medicine not a food. We believe it is unethical to mass medicate the entire population without their knowledge or consent in the hope that a minority group of people might see a benefit.
petition.parliament.uk petition.parliament.uk
 
It is not just folic acid added to flour, it is also iron, which is poison over time to people who have high iron in their blood. Most people who have that inherited condition, do not find out until the damage had been done. The crime syndicates running Western countries (we do not have governments) seem determined to reduce their own populations, while at the same time saying open-borders because we need workers.

I try to reduce my own intake of the cr*p in our food by our own politicians, by buying organic flour with zero additives, and baking my own bread when I have time. There is nothing like the smell and taste of home baked bread. I also stay well clear of processed (ready meals) food because, I have no idea what many of the ingredients are.

Something people do not realise, there is ZERO control over the dosage one takes in of these additives. Some will be OD-ing . . . . . cancer, organ failure, etc here they come.

Signed, and thank you for sharing the petition.
 
This policy is stupid on many levels.
1. It may be harmful to some.
2. It is severely outdated. Younger people eat far less bread than they used to, so adding supplements to flour is no longer a very good way of dosing the population. It is not clear how or if this would be added to imported flour, so is likely to be a double failure.
3. How far up their arses must officials’ heads be to think that this is the best possible use of taxpayers’ money at the moment and that increasing costs on UK businesses with this sort of thing is what the economy needs?
 
And if you're still not sure:

Human Folate Bioavailability - PMC

The vitamin folate is recognized as beneficial health-wise in the prevention of neural tube defects, anemia, cardiovascular diseases, poor cognitive performance, and some forms of cancer. However, suboptimal dietary folate intake has been reported ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

D.
 
The UK has been fortifying bread since the 1940s. But yes I don't agree with any of it. I think some wholemeal breads and some sourdoughs are excluded from the fortifying rules. For example this Tesco "Sourdough Bloomer" only contains Wheat Flour, Water, Salt, Malted Barley Flour.


Look at the ingredients of most shop bread and you'll see all kinds of things get added. Once you start making your own, shop bread tastes rubbish, plus you realise normal bread goes (and should go) stale very quickly!
 
It is not just in bread, anything made using the "fortified" flour has it in. People who need additional vitamins due to a bad diet or the messed about with food we now get with hardly any nutrition, can take vitamins. People who do not need it or who the additives are bad for, can not take it out. The "fortification" from many years ago is also not the same as what is added today, they keep changing "improving" and adding more. When a population is forced anything, it nearly always never ends well for the people. I call it a dictatorship or tyranny. It is done for shekels, follow the money, someone is getting brown envelopes from the suppliers.
 
Just to get some terminology right, folate is indeed the form found in food and actually covers a variety of compounds. Folic acid is indeed a synthetic compound, metabolised into absorbable folate in the cells of the gut
Foley was a character in a series of movies starring Eddie Murphy, in which the sequels got successively poorer
 
Keep refering to medical proffesional and a doctor appears, doctor of what?
Maybe the op could start selling merch? Tin foil hats, snake oil, dream catchers, rabbits feet
 
muddy42 said:
The UK has been fortifying bread since the 1940s. But yes I don't agree with any of it. I think some wholemeal breads and some sourdoughs are excluded from the fortifying rules. For example this Tesco "Sourdough Bloomer" only contains Wheat Flour, Water, Salt, Malted Barley Flour.


Look at the ingredients of most shop bread and you'll see all kinds of things get added. Once you start making your own, shop bread tastes rubbish, plus you realise normal bread goes (and should go) stale very quickly!
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Fortification aside, the real issue with modern, store bought bread is that it is not a fermented bread, and contains refined carbohydrates and oil. Hence all the gut related issues (celiac/gluten sensitive). The vast majority of people with these problems cease to have them when they consume traditional fermented bread.

Natural bread is fermented and contains exactly four, water, salt and yeast (though some add sugar thinking it helps fermentation; it doesn't if it's bread flour).

While we still use store bought bread about half of the time (work schedule/time) but we also make our own when time permits, since it is what humans have naturally evolved to eat over the past several thousands of years. So simple to make, but does require time/schedule to allow it.
 
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Gluten (actually more than one compound) is an entirely natural component of cereal grains, and thus of the flour milled from them.
 
Making holes in things said:
It is not just folic acid added to flour, it is also iron, which is poison over time to people who have high iron in their blood. Most people who have that inherited condition, do not find out until the damage had been done. The crime syndicates running Western countries (we do not have governments) seem determined to reduce their own populations, while at the same time saying open-borders because we need workers.

I try to reduce my own intake of the cr*p in our food by our own politicians, by buying organic flour with zero additives, and baking my own bread when I have time. There is nothing like the smell and taste of home baked bread. I also stay well clear of processed (ready meals) food because, I have no idea what many of the ingredients are.

Something people do not realise, there is ZERO control over the dosage one takes in of these additives. Some will be OD-ing . . . . . cancer, organ failure, etc here they come.

Signed, and thank you for sharing the petition.
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you probably are aware but organic flour is fortified as well.
 
I wouldn't worry for one second about this issue in terms of the OP's concerns, however there is a bigger picture. If living in the US then you are stuffed as food companies can "self certify" that the chemicals they put in your food are safe. You are right to be very very sceptical. That is a thread in itself....

*to understand fortifying it is not new: Have a look at what happened to the British navy before they started drinking lime juice, and what happened to the Chinese army when they processed brown/whole rice to take away the husk that contains all of the b12 to make it last longer to be taken on long journeys*

Others are right in that the manufacturers of processed foods and sugar, tobacco and oil and pharmaceuticals and banks lobby and finance most world governments.

Breakfast cereal, bread and other processed foods and sugary drinks are largely to blame for the the cancer and obesity epidemic and have to have vitamins and minerals added back as they have very little due the initial processing

Fortifying processed foods is useful as they are cheap foods that many families eat as it is all they can afford........it is generally a good idea to fortify them but it does guve a false "healthy" label to them

Looking at breakfast cereal packaging makes me laugh "low fat, vitamins and minerals" (but essentially pure processed carbohydrate giving huge blood sugar spikes therefore storage as fat.

If you dont believe me, buy a "freestyle libre" eat some stuff and watch your blood sugars change in real time

People should worry about things that are actually consequential to their health that they may voluntarily "choose" of their own free will to ingest. Smoking and alcohol top that list obviously

1/3 of uk children live in poverty and fruit and veg are expensive, as is real meat, processed foods are cheaper. There is an obesity and type2 diabetes explosion. 50% of cancer related deaths are likely related to obesity. If obese by 6 it will likely be lifelong . I would sign a petition to end child poverty in the Uk

Obviously the foods themselves have health risks and UK Government would maybe be wise to subsidise UK fruit and veg and dairy production but that is another thread entirely. As is what pesticides "organic" producers can use

The "establishment" that the tin foil hat brigade want to rebel against do a whole lot more to mess up our lives that want to put vitamins in our processed foods (such as not supporting British farmers to make sure we have food security and not addressing social inequality in the correct way)

If you are worried about what is in bread have a look at what "emulsifiers" such as "mono and diglycerides of fatty acids" (trans fats) do to your gut microbiome and cardiovascular health. Also what various FODMAPs or things like inverted sugar syrup, glucose fructose syrup do to our gut and metabolism.

Even if you survive solely off whole foods then you are ingesting a whole host of toxins each day unless growing your own with filtered water and wearing a carbon filtered respirator

That is not to even mention the "permitted" amounts of pesticides in food that when combined create carcinogenic compounds

and the hormones and drugs and micro plastics that the water companies can't remove from our drinking water

The issue with folate and b12 deficiency is that if b12 deficiency is severe you must replace b12 before then replacing folate or bad things may happen to your spinal cord
 
What Doctorken just said.......and try this, a wartime recipe for wholemeal bread that doesn't require kneading.

www.bbc.co.uk

Doris Grant loaf recipe

This ‘no-need-to-knead bread’ was adapted from a 1940s recipe by healthy-eating evangelist Doris Grant, who believed white flour – and its lack of nutrients – was the enemy. Making bread one day, Doris forgot to knead it. On tasting the loaf, she discovered it had a fair taste and decided never...
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

D.
 
What about palm oil !! Its rancid and its cheaper too! It tastes like crap and every food I used to eat its now replaced the oils .
Its now a game of if its in! iam out as it does my guts in .
As for B12 just get tested and get loading jabs twice a year.
 
Doctorken said:
The issue with folate and b12 deficiency is that if b12 deficiency is severe you must replace b12
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100% agree.

As do the doctors in the OP links.

They further point out that that cohort is tiny but should receive targetted treatment.

The issue is those whom the NHS have previously stated should avoid folic acid in their diets. They are part of the the nation's 68 million people who will be dosed willy-nilly

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zambezi said:
In 2021 the NHS guidance on folic acid included this:

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In 2026 the NHS website includes this wording about who can take folic acid:

View attachment 479832

From December 2026, U.K. flour will have [synthetic folate] folic acid added by law:

The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024

These Regulations amend the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/141) (“the 1998 Regulations”).
www.legislation.gov.uk www.legislation.gov.uk

Some medical professionals are concerned about this move:



Some technical explanation as to why folic acid differs from natural dietary folate:

Fauxlate — Folic acid is not folate

Synthetic folic acid is not the same as natural folate. From December 2026 the UK will mandate it in non-wholemeal flour. The evidence deserves a closer look.
fauxlate.org

A U.K. parliamentary petition to sign if you feel that compulsory dosing of all flour is not what you want our legislators to do:

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately

We call on the Government to stop the fortification of flour with synthetic folic acid. Folic acid is a medicine not a food. We believe it is unethical to mass medicate the entire population without their knowledge or consent in the hope that a minority group of people might see a benefit.
petition.parliament.uk petition.parliament.uk
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You mean that we’re paying one part of the State to tell us one thing, while paying another part of said State to do the exact opposite?

Unprecedented.

🤡

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