Breadmaker + vitamins?

chocdonuty

Hello, Last month I got a breadmaker from freecycle and found it to be excellent, I havent bought any shop bread since, I was just wondering if it was possible to add and vitamins to the mix as my daughter loves bread but otherwise isn't a great eater, especially fruit and veg wise so I thought I could get her vitamins through the bread but was unsure which vitamins to add, how much and whether anyone has tried it before? hoping for some ideas, michelle x

rumblytum

Hi there,

Well I certainly add Vitamin C powder to my breadmaker - although only because certain recipes list it as an ingredient. I don't know about others though.

rumbly x

Debt_Free_Chick

chocdonuty wrote: »

Hello, Last month I got a breadmaker from freecycle and found it to be excellent, I havent bought any shop bread since, I was just wondering if it was possible to add and vitamins to the mix as my daughter loves bread but otherwise isn't a great eater, especially fruit and veg wise so I thought I could get her vitamins through the bread but was unsure which vitamins to add, how much and whether anyone has tried it before? hoping for some ideas, michelle x

There will already be some vits & mins in the ingredients

White flour
Calcium
Iron
B vits - thiamin & niacin
Selenium

Wholemeal
As above, but higher B vits and folic acid

If you want to add vitamin C, use ascorbic acid.

If you really want to add vitamins & minerals, I think you need to analyse her current diet and work out what she might be lacking in. No point in adding "any vitamin - just in case".

Have you tried hiding fruit & veg in her food e.g. veg in home made soups? Fruit in smoothies or home made ice cream, sorbets etc?

moonrakerz

chocdonuty wrote: »

Hello, Last month I got a breadmaker from freecycle and found it to be excellent, I havent bought any shop bread since, I was just wondering if it was possible to add and vitamins to the mix as my daughter loves bread but otherwise isn't a great eater, especially fruit and veg wise so I thought I could get her vitamins through the bread but was unsure which vitamins to add, how much and whether anyone has tried it before? hoping for some ideas, michelle x

Why ? If you eat a healthy diet you don't need extra vitamins.

A recent report linked multi-vitamin pills to prostate cancer.

MrsKing

Where can you buy ascorbic acid from?

Fivenations

Stoneground bread like DOves and Allinson is also higher in nutrients than flour milled by steel rollers - which all flour is unless specified.

Debt_Free_Chick

I forgot to mention any other ingredients, if you add them e.g. milk, nuts, seeds, dried fruit etc

Gingernutmeg

MrsKing wrote: »

Where can you buy ascorbic acid from?

I'd try asking at a local chemists, although a lot of commercial flours have it in there anyway as a preservative.

rumblytum

Hi there

I buy my Vitamin C powder in tubs from the chemist (Lloyds Pharmacy) - same as ascorbic acid, I think.

rumbly x

Penelope_Penguin

chocdonuty wrote: »

Hello, Last month I got a breadmaker from freecycle and found it to be excellent, I havent bought any shop bread since, I was just wondering if it was possible to add and vitamins to the mix as my daughter loves bread but otherwise isn't a great eater, especially fruit and veg wise so I thought I could get her vitamins through the bread but was unsure which vitamins to add, how much and whether anyone has tried it before? hoping for some ideas, michelle x

I have no experience of this, but will there be an issue with heating the vitamins? Might this degrade them?

My children weren't big veg eaters as small ones, but always ate lots of fruit. Fresh fruit and veg is also about fibre (absence of which is implicated in bowel and other cancers) and getting fluids in. Have you tried giving her smooties - also a good source of calcium and calories (if she needs that - mine did and ate full fat dairy for a long time).

Penny. x