Bread responds to nutritional challenge

Abstract

The background was set in 1979 with the issue of revised Recommended daily amounts of food and energy nutrients for groups of people in the United Kingdom (RDA) by the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA). This valuable report, while dealing with the intake of essential nutrients, excluded dietary fibre (DF) from its consideration, a topic extensively reviewed in a report from the Royal College of Physicians in 1980 and more specifically in relation to bread in the comprehensive COMA report Nutritional aspects of bread and flour in 1981. 1983 saw the publication of the report of the National Advisory Committee on Nutrition Education (NACNE), amid a welter of accusation and controversy (which did it no harm, to say the least), and 1984 the COMA report on Diet in relation to cardiovascular disease. New nutritional labelling regulations are drafted and being discussed, and seem likely to come into effect in 1986.

Citation

Fisher, N. (1985), "Bread responds to nutritional challenge", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 85 No. 5, pp. 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb059081