Greyghoster

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

For a person not part of the company to leap out and assert that a product does or doesn’t contain a substance is high risk. They take on the risk that the company may have been lying, may not support them etc. The company differentiates 2 of their products which leads to the thought that the classic is not fortified but unless the Vegemite comes out clarifies it, it is not a incontrovertible fact. They have been making it since 1923 which is well before added vitamins were a popular thing and I can say it tastes the same (as much as I can tell) since the 1950s. So on balance I think that they don’t fortify it.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They say the standard version is all natural but the low salt version is fortified. Don’t know why the ingredients say that as the nutritional info is the normal place.

Nutritional information Vegemite is a source of B vitamins, specifically thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and folate (B1, B2, B3 and B9, respectively). The base version contains no vitamin B12 (cobalamin) although both vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) and vitamin B12 are added to the low-salt formulation.[38] The main ingredient of Vegemite is yeast extract, which contains a high concentration of glutamic acid, the source of Vegemite's umami flavour. Vegemite does not contain any fat, added sugar or animal content. It contains gluten (a composite of storage proteins) as the yeast is derived from brewing.[39] One 5 gram serving contains 173 mg of sodium, which is 8% of the recommended daily intake of sodium.[40][41] Australia only defines low salt foods, but by UK standards Vegemite is classified as a high salt content food.[42] A low-salt version of Vegemite was introduced in September 2014. It has a 25% reduction in sodium content. The low-salt version is also fortified with vitamin B6 and vitamin B12.[38]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The vitamin B in Vegemite is naturally occurring from the yeast process. It’s not added.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s time for Europe and the rest of the world to sort out Putin. No time to waste on wasters.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

The Aussie system was modelled on the Canadian system at the time. It works well as there is somewhere that people can go and get free medical treatment even if there often is a long wait time.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Dutton is a hard right conservative. People like him want crack down on everything, wind back social programs like Medicare, get stuck into workers pay and conditions and screw up our relationship with major trading partners (like China). It’s pretty obvious that when he came out with those brain fart policies, he was speaking from the heart. The upshot is that he will revert as soon as he is PM.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

Wow! Who would have thought that this was so complicated and tied up with Putin’s ego?