Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?

Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? by jldugger on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:57AM (#25567997)

I'm really not sure where that citation is coming from. It's a Google web answer but the source has no citation. Wikipedia lists a textbook, rather than anything from NCBI, and I'm too lazy to dig further. A corn torilla or slice of bread in the US typically has 1-2 mg of niacin, and a daily recommendation of around 16mg.

3 oz (85 grams) of "Chicken breast, meat only, grilled" contains 10.3 grams of the stuff[1], and average adults get about 30mg/day. Best I can tell this is about nicotinic acid specifically, and might be IV rather than ingestion, which is very much an apples and oranges situation.

    1: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Niacin-HealthProfessional/

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Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? by ljf on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:22AM (#25568115)

Agree, I didn't dig - was the first result I found.

Fact is though, that here in Europe there is no need or value in adding this supplement, and generally the EU is wary of any adulterated foods without reason.

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Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? by hef19898 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:34AM (#25568187)

And for good reason.

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Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? by jey on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @12:09PM (#25571959)

> "Chicken breast, meat only, grilled" contains 10.3 grams of [niacin]

That's off by a factor of 1000x -- it says 10.3 milligrams.

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Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? by jldugger on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @01:07PM (#25572756)

Apologies for the typo

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