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Better not try to bring any Vegemite with you next time Oz....


http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/ ... 62,00.html


Travis

That link was dead for me - how about these:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 53,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20623973-2,00.html

All because of folate? That's the stupidest thing I've heard all day.

You are right, it is stupid. They should ban it because it tastes like crap, not because of the folate.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

Now now.

There should be some support for the plight of Vegemiteless Aussies on the BN forum. Vegemite is after all made entirely from spent brewers yeast.

I sympathise heavily with my ex-pat co-nationals. It might taste like road tar, but when you are brought up on the stuff, you are addicted to it like it was made from pure crack cocaine.

Note to potential smugglers - Deprived Aussies will eventually get to the point where they will pay more for a jar of this stuff than they would pay for smack

Ok... So In the US you can only add folate to bread and cereal. Fine... Vegemite is spread on bread therefore any folate therin is being added to bread. Problem solved.

Now shut up and eat your Vegemite. Its good for you.

its funny all the Medicos here are telling women to eat folate?, got me fucked

Ozbrewer wrote:its funny all the Medicos here are telling women to eat folate?, got me fucked

Well whatever it takes to get you laid.

Thing is,

Near as I can tell, Vegemite doesn't have added folate, it just happens to already have folate in it, because Vegemite has absolutely craploads of B group vitamins from the yeast, of which folate is one.

So as airgead points out, the only adding of folate happens when you add vegemite to your toast/sandwich. Which is apparently fine.

to quote a wise man.

"Now shut up and eat your Vegemite. Its good for you"
(and kind of made from beer)

goddamn health nazis