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I'm not a baby expert, but I don't think they should be eating tortillas?
Not sure if this is a joke, but the damage happens during fetal development. Folic acid is a vital nutrient that ensures proper nervous system development for the fetus. If the parent carrying the child doesn't eat enough food with folic acid during pregnancy, this deficiency results in incomplete or malformed parts of the nervous system.
Normally, prenatal vitamins are enough to ensure that this doesn't happen, but the levels in these vitamins assume the parent is getting a certain amount of it already in their diet. Now that it will be added to masa flour, same as how it is added to wheat flour, there will be far fewer people who end up with folic acid deficiency during pregnancy, which will mean fewer children being born with the resulting issues that deficiency would cause.
Ah, kinda like iodine in Salt. ty.
Also, I guess I am just out of it today because I couldn't put together from the article that it was the parent's malnutrition somehow...
Yeaaa. Iodine deficiency makes people cognitively impaired. Really bad when a pregnant mother is deficient.
Really annoys me when social media cooks bash iodized salt. American test kitchen did double-blind taste tests(link below)... No one could tell the difference consistently.
Iodized all day for salt. 1 tsp of iodized salt is all you need a day!
Here's a pretty decent video on YT about this trend: https://youtu.be/XRcwwZXJ8gk
People's throats (thyroids) used to swell up like a frog from deficiency! Pretty freaky.
They don't eat it. You place it on the babies chest and face. This helps the baby breath better in the warmer climate. The defects are from allergic reaponces that i'm not going to bother to make up too.