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by Teever 1492 days ago
This may come as a surprise to you but many other aisles of the grocery store have already converged with the vitamin aisle.[0]

Many foods that you've spent your entire life eating are already fortified with vitamins like Vitamin D. This isn't a bad thing at all, and in fact you and the people around you are probably far healthier for it.

https://inspection.canada.ca/food-label-requirements/labelli...

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The introduction of iodine to table salt is arguably one of the biggest public health policy wins of the 20th century, only overshadowed by the near total bans on tetraethyl lead and CFCs.
Few people (in global terms) had flush toilets in the early 20th century. While iodine was huge for the west, toilets are still probably the most effective public health measure you can apply today as billions of people still lack them.
Manufactured foods, sure.

Nobody is going and injecting apples with vitamins though.

Now is that because they don't want to or is it because it isn't feasible to?
Milk comes to mind, but yes.