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My complaint email to Lidl: “I went in store today and discovered that you are incorrectly labelling some of your packaged vegetables. You state on your Broccoli/Cauliflower, Spinach, other Broccoli and leaf greens, that they contain Folic Acid. No, they do not. The naturally occurring and beneficial vitamin FOLATE is found in the vegetables that you are labelling as Folic Acid. Folic Acid is a manufactured substance. See below screenshot of who manufactures it. Why are you misleading customers? Why the false description about what is naturally found in some vegetables? Or are you implying that your vegetable producers are spraying Folic Acid on before packaging? Perhaps your favoured vegetable farmers are watering their growing crops with Folic Acid? Those last two questions are literally the only way you can add a synthetic chemical to vegetables. Maybe this is genuine mislabeling by someone who doesn’t know that the natural vitamin Folate and the synthetic chemical Folic Acid are two different things.  Alternatively, are you implying to customers that, if Folic Acid is in certain vegetables, it must be healthy, good for them. Manufactured Folic Acid is added to white flour. The flour laden goods like bread, cakes, biscuits, cereals, pizza, sausages, burgers, some sauces, some ready meals and breaded fish and chicken will contain it. Is that your aim, Lidl UK? If you are mislabeling vegetables to give credence to synthetic Folic Acid, that is very sinister. It may also be illegal under several UK Food laws.  Folic Acid: From December 2026, the Labour Government have arbitrarily decreed that all white, wheat flour will contain the synthetic chemical, Folic Acid. There are huge health risks to some of the population. See the list below of who should avoid Folic Acid. The issue is, the Government, guided by the CMO of the UK, has not defined how much Folic Acid is required for it to be a health risk. There is no guidance on how to avoid Folic Acid if you’re in the at risk group. Nor is there any report on what the long term health impact could be for children. Our kids daily eat many of the flour laden products containing the chemical Folic Acid. I will be sharing on social media groups, the pictures of your packaged vegetables that falsely state the presence of Folic Acid. There is a growing public movement aware of what the Government intends. A decree to medicate the population, that has not been highlighted or advertised clearly to the many ‘at risk’ people. More transparency is required. By mislabeling your vegetables, Lidl UK is contributing to what can only be described as a cover up. Lidl UK is not the only supermarket doing this. I have seen that Morrisons are also guilty of misleading customers by doing exactly the same thing with their packaged vegetables. That is extremely odd and makes me suspicious of why both supermarkets are following a path of deceit. I request that my complaint is referred to the highest level. I know Lidl UK cannot change the legal mandate to add Folic Acid to white flour. However, Lidl CAN be more honest and accurate with consumers, by changing the inaccurate Folic Acid labelling to Folate, the natural vitamin, on the appropriate packaged vegetables. I have copied in my MP, xxxxxxxxxxxxxx seeing as his party are responsible for this potentially health damaging mandate.”