Unenriched Grains Over Fortified Ones

What I do

Unenriched or whole grains rather than synthetically fortified ones, where the choice exists.

Why — and it is not the reason people assume

This is arithmetic, not toxicology. I am not claiming enriched flour is dangerous, and I want that stated plainly because this preference gets grouped with claims I am not making.

Fortification exists to prevent deficiency across a population that is not supplementing. I am supplementing. My stack already covers the folate, the iron, the B vitamins that enrichment adds back — so fortified flour is a second dose, in a synthetic form I did not choose, at an amount I am not tracking, layered on top of one I am.

That is a reason to prefer the unenriched version. It is not a reason to warn anyone off the enriched one, and for someone not taking a stack the calculation runs the other way entirely.

The part that is a real preference

Whole grains over refined-then-enriched is a separate and simpler point: the whole version never had the nutrients stripped out, so nothing has to be added back. Enrichment is a repair of a process I would rather not have run.