Get unlimited digital access. 99¢ for 5 weeks.  Vitamins don't
make Girl Scout cookies healthful  Fortified foods aren’t
exactly new. In 1941, the makers of Wonder Bread first started
adding vitamins to their highly processed white bread. Post
Golden Crisp cereal gets more than half its calories from sugar,
but darned if it isn’t fortified with 10 vitamins and minerals.
Even so, there’s something a little jarring about the enriched
Girl Scout cookies this year that were advertised as a
“delicious new way to get your vitamins!" The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration is looking into this and other snack foods that
toss in any healthy-sounding thing they can think of and then
market it like crazy so it sounds like a nutritious food.  This
is the era in which, instead of eating calcium-rich foods, we
eat calcium-enriched foods that make sure you know about that in
big letters on the label. Or the ones with antioxidants or the
omega 3 fatty acids. Particularly if it’s the only claim to
health fame they can make.