Facets of population-detrimental, folic acid “vitamin/preservative dual feint”, 1994–2026
15/16 of humanity of rugged brain reaction to folic acid: resulting in mild, very mild, suffering (suffering is very livable, and steady). 1/16 of humanity of 1/4(/4) recessive brain genetics, non-visual yet internal, are more poignantly affected.
Writer: Patrick Lee Cheatham | Master of Science, Aeronautical Engineering, former airframe propulsion integration designer | Captain (retired) U.S. Air Force, former F-15E instructor and evaluator pilot | Sole Owner — Inceptional Sets
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Estimated TAINTED Categories of Folic Acid in United States Foods
Tainted — Pasta, bread, sweet treats of cake-componentry, coffee imports, rice, & potatoes which are prepared for frying at restaurants and homes, burritos, breaded chicken sandwiches and tenders or nuggets. Peanut butter and Chili (elimination of which as recent as August 24th, 2026, resulted in great improvements to my brain health.)
Alternatives which have Recently Excelled for me
- ✔️ Great Northern Beans
- ✔️ Pinto Beans
- ✔️ Baked Beans
- ✔️ Corned Beef
55% to 75% (my estimate) — seems the extent - short of full saturation - of Food and Beverage "Fortification / Preservation" attained thus far, in the United States
- Fortification & enrichment of foods (which I have studied at length), plus;
- Preservative changes in the 1990s decade (concerning which I have not yet delved).
Food and Beverage Fortification and Preservatives
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As of this year 2026: I have for 31-years of duration been hindered by powdered-form / liquid-form folic acid.
Not until the year 2015 did I begin to guess and estimate as to folic acid means and processing, prior to packaging and shelving, from canned to frozen shelves, by beginning to intermittently scour internet discoverable and browsable information sources, seeking food and beverage true casual and effectual facets.
Not until the year 2023 did I begin to fathom via experience the problem with vitality minimizing powders for turbo/super charging healthy eating, via lunging a month to the calendar future, of meal and beverage ingestions, in notion on par with packing a months of school lunch bags or singular kits, per school day, per morning before going — 1. mobile, from — 2. home, to — 3. work.
Only now in the year 2026 am I discovering, even the densest packed forms of potatoes, pastas and burritos, do not escape powdering or food coloring zilch, via solute dunking before packaging and transport.
Subtle and Long Durations Involved in Assessing, Personally
Dining on vita folic powdered and minimized foods, whether at food processing plant sprinkled with solute under dunking grates, or at alloy machines soaked unto transparency, is of exact same ambience.
Yet dining on such powder minimal`vita`d foods and beverages, in the minute, the hour, and the moment, has no fanfare, theatric preview, introduction, or preparing caution, as to the results 12–48 hours later.
The experience with or without enrichment/fortification, is the same for those minutes while seated in counter-position with plate or bowl and utensils.
It’s after the meal is done, that’s what enrichment and fortification does the best at: launching 21–35 meals to future calendar holidays or weekends, in one fell swoop, to Shepherd strangers away from “personal access and personal selections gone poorly.”
Food processing-plant processors, do likely know of some issues in contention herein. They do well at foods and drinks, ensuring all are well containerized with nothing falling out of package, at restaurant or grocery, until return homeward, possibly. Yet these are large multi-member-companies, and retooling food coloring invisible and such is understandably too readily proceeded toward, unreadily.
My Cast and Perspective
On Histories of U.S. FDA Lengthy Annotations of Written Wordings concerning Enrichment and Fortification…
After years earlier emplacement of statuses not then availing to place in CFR’s much of effectual merit.
1. 1994–1995 — Folic Acid enrichment and fortification documented by the U.S. FDA as having swelled into the United States, and landing in their offices, with much writing to do, in retrospect review of formerly already entrenched effects.
2. 2015–2016** — Folic Acid enrichment and fortification documented to be fully optional and thus readily continuable as tooled, at food processing and packaging plants. Several paragraphs worth of new-then combined federal regulation wording, did ensue before I came to notice this sort of style to the long and belabored (seemingly, but for later review) count of paragraphs on such default option as of then — the only availing:
Assessment (alternative) having read and re-read FDA combined federal regulations commentary
— A style of federal regulation prose, detailing many reasons folic acid seemed to US Federal regulations (combined) detrimental, and also conceding that the fully at option, continue as was, was seemingly the at-the-publishing-month, standard in place.
— The 2016 style is well worth re-reading. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/04/15/2016-08792/food-additives-permitted-for-direct-addition-to-food-for-human-consumption-folic-acid
— The 1996 style is ambiguous. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1996-03-05/html/96-5013.htm
— The neural tube defect implication of “Fact (which change in time durations, to new status of facts) and Folly *(fol`ic)” is difficult to counterpoint or counter intuit. https://www.fda.gov/files/about%20fda/published/Folic-Acid-Fortification--Fact-and-Folly.pdf
My Personal Food and Foodstuffs Adjustments
From 2015 to now 2026, I’ve personally been working adjustments and food and beverage intake selections (very limited) by guess-estimate judging, after days later: ill or more well effect of foods and beverages subset categories.
Since grocery and restaurant meals are of such a large variety of components, even for a small snack, the narrowing on specifics is a matter of re-guessing and re-assessing, often.
Delayed of 8 hours to 72 hours after eating or drinking fortified ingestible food and beverages, is the time frames of encountering then mixed downfalls or improvements, sometimes noted to relate to earlier meals, and sometimes not correlated, especially if a downfall hinders hindsight assessment acumen.
Results and my guidance to myself, are ever very vague to sort out. No trend is clearcut or stark, due to such smooth ramping and aftereffects being blended in over fogged together spans of hours, of no sharp demarcation.
When re-experiencing downfalls from mixed food meals, then I re-aim via hunch-work, tacking on firmer arrivals at true taint/toxicity, which if sure and crisp as to past selections, is still guess patchwork when grocery and restaurant-going. Meals are of so very many components, that each menu offering is beyond dissection, at mealtimes ahead.
Nevertheless, I aim onward toward continually tweaking listings from hours to years before and continually hashing through menus from which to order.
The resultant indicators I work:
Foods and Beverages to-eat/drink-minimal-of
To either —
- reduce folic acid buildup in me, or
- broaden sample sets via negation and new tagging for — eat and/or drink little of this, and when such: in small portions as better, countering, via trade-offs, better living, hourly, with pragmatic living while in grocery aisles and in restaurant interiors, — as an alternate boon if downturn was encountered, causing regression.
Widespread and thorough coverage of B9 (and other B vitamins) as added to foods and beverages is termed by me as “fortification/lacing.” (That selection as to couching terms, depends on each person’s mindset as to beneficial fortification/enriching, or in contrast as to detrimental tainting, lacing, and corrupting: of foods and beverages.)
By now, long after the 1994 introduction of folic acid / B9 into United States U.S. FDA combined federal regulations, the global and United States food and beverage fortification is a subtle and unmentioned, unnoticed undercurrent very firmly established.
Folic acid, or B9, or petroleum semi-fuel refinery effective mimics attempted to produce foliage, vegetable, bread, potato, pasta and effects from peer-to-fuel refinement, has by now, since 1994–1995 become very tangled and interwoven into global foods, beverages, condiments, and bird, poultry & livestock feed.
Fuel is based on buried, chilled, and preserved remnants of ancient animal and dinosaurs, having been in scientific and historical theories, a matter of sedimentation filling low valleys, near timing of large-scale deaths of animals and dinosaurs. Thousands of theories, each differing on many other issues, do agree on that facet of buried, chilled, and preserved, meaning the fuel-basis is equivalent, in some valuable ways, to poultry, beef, pork, and such, after farm slaughter and before restaurant going or grocery shopping.
Folic acid, and some other vitamin series, are not derived from deceased animals, of recent years or long ago large-count (in tens, hundreds, thousands, of 12-month years), and the folic acid powder/liquid addition, in no capsule or tablet, is not as smart scientifically as Vitamin D — mammary and mammalian series vitamins, mimicking very well and effectively when from petroleum deposits, does stand to merit.
Fortification program justifications and reasoning vary, yet a common thread seems to advocate a future 1+ month-cast ahead of vitamin A, B, C, D, E added to foods and beverages, to boost the innate properties of the food with 1950s-decade style vitamins.
Rehash, shortform
Vitamins are petroleum refined products from millions of years buried primates, dinosaurs, and more animal life of long past.
Fortification and enrichment, seems to me to embody a philosophy based on pity for consumers who could not feasibly succeed at ingredients and nutrition complexities. This is true, yet this sort of broad-populace shepherding is dissonant to our United States traditions, and United States appealing traits, as a republic / nation.
Other notes, for further prose refinements in future revisions of this article / Medium Story
Heavy folic acid interjection into U.S. food/beverage fortification plans was enacted in the years 1994–1995, effecting selection of types of such for centered further fortification of B9.
(I consider now that poultry and meat suppliers are not at topics facets in problematic stances on food and drink ingredients. The breading facet seems prime, and sole driver…)
Though many readers could well dis-concur:
We’re all mildly suffering some minute-to-minute losses in qualities, from vitamins / preservatives.
Those diagnosed with detrimental mental conditions learn to modify ingestion, or face not mild suffering, but poignancies multifold.
