food fortification
Enriching staple ingredients
Food fortification is the practice of adding nutrients to foods during processing to improve their nutritional value.
Common examples include adding iodine to salt, vitamin D to milk, and folic acid to flour.
The practice addresses widespread nutritional deficiencies in populations: Fortification of grain products has dramatically reduced neural tube defects.
- vitamin DCalcium absorption enabler
- folic acidB-vitamin preventing birth defects
- ironElement twenty-six
- zincElement thirty
- iodineAntiseptic element, atomic fifty-three
anemia · minerals · selenium · calcium · bioavailability · magnesium · enriched · white flour · omega-3 fatty acids · public health · micronutrients · mandatory · staple foods · homogenization · wheat · dietary guidelines · breakfast cereal · cereal
food fortificationnutrient depletion
Loss of essential substances
food processing · refining · empty calories · bleaching · polishing