Talk:Vegemite

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Pronunciation false?

One of the sources claimed to say vej ee mite (source 2) doesn't say that at all, it says vej uh mite or vej ih mite, and it doesn't even give vej ee mite as a possibility. What does Macquarie REALLY say for the pronunciation (as opposed to what you wish it would say)?

If the pronunciation has changed, unfortunately Wikipedia needs to give only the out-of-date version printed in reliable dictionaries, and wait for those reliable dictionaries to catch up. TooManyFingers (talk) 05:35, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, adjusted. WWGB (talk) 07:12, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I didn't see this until I changed it, based on https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vegemite. Not sure what to do now, but note that if the phonetic respelling is changed then the IPA has to be changed too AltoStev (talk) 16:06, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 13 December 2024

Please amend "Following the death of Frank Walker" in final paragraph of introduction to "Following the death of Fred Walker" - Fred Walker is the relevant Australian businessman who died in 1935, Frank Walker is the owner of National Tiles who is still alive and has no notable connection to Vegemite beyond being Australian. WinklesOldPeculiar (talk) 05:22, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Thanks for the alert. HiLo48 (talk) 05:37, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Transcription incorrect

The transcription is "/ˈvɛdʒimaɪt/ VEJ-uh-myte" The vowel in the second syllable differ in the IPA and phonetic respelling. I suggest it should be transcribed /ˈvɛdʒəmaɪt/ Kijetesantakalu042 (talk) 02:59, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

based on https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/vegemite I edited the phonetic respelling instead AltoStev (talk) 16:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In October 2006, an Australian news company reported that Vegemite had been banned in the United States, and that the United States Customs Service had gone so far as to search Australians entering the country for Vegemite because it naturally contains folate, a B vitamin approved as an additive in the United States for just a few foods, including breakfast cereals.[66][67][68

The statement above attributes the rationale for bans to the fact that vegemite "naturally contains folate". This is incorrect.

The regulatory issue is not vegemite's natural folate content, but rather its fortification with folic acid, which is the synthetic form of the vitamin. You can see folic acid on Vegemite's ingredients list and nutrition facts table [1]. There are no regulatory limits on the amount of naturally occurring folate, but Canada, the United States and others that permit fortification have regulations around what foods can be fortified with folic acid to prevent excess intakes, because it is metabolized differently and has a tolerable upper limit of intake, in contrast to natural food folate [2, 3, 4].

This is the issue concerning Canada's recent "ban" as well - the fortification with folic acid, and not the natural folate content of the product [5].

1]https://www.google.com/imgres?q=vegemite%20label&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F71R%2B7IOEnFL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.ca%2FVegemite-Value-Pack-220-Jar%2Fdp%2FB01KADZIEO&docid=_1JFAnliBvbExM&tbnid=kaePByljseaHJM&vet=12ahUKEwj_4Y3c59yMAxXPmIkEHbEaKmoQM3oECHIQAA..i&w=1000&h=883&hcb=2&ved=2ahUKEwj_4Y3c59yMAxXPmIkEHbEaKmoQM3oECHIQAA 2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK114318/ 3] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/fortified-food.html 4] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/04/15/2016-08792/food-additives-permitted-for-direct-addition-to-food-for-human-consumption-folic-acid 5] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/australian-canadian-cafe-owner-ordered-remove-vegemite-1.7508893 205.193.94.40 (talk) 14:57, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]