Category: Food Science

• The Vitamin Fortification Plot

  This theory claimed that the addition of vitamins to milk and other staple foods was not simply a nutritional public-health measure but an early form of biological engineering carried out on the public. In its strongest form, the theory held that fortification was a state-backed experiment designed to alter the development, behavior, or long-term health of whole populations without meaningful consent. The fear drew on the real rise of vitamin science in the interwar period, the introduction of vitamin D fortification to milk in the 1930s to combat rickets, and the broader authority of nutrition experts, public-health departments, and food manufacturers. The conspiratorial claim transformed nutritional standardization into covert biological administration.