Food Fortification - Types of Food Fortification

Types of Food Fortification

The 4 main methods of food fortification (named as to indicate the procedure that is used in order to fortify the food):

  1. Biofortification (i.e. breeding crops to increase their nutritional value, which can include both conventional selective breeding, and modern genetic modification)
  2. Microbial biofortification and synthetic biology (i.e. addition of probiotic bacteria to foods)
  3. Commercial and industrial fortification (i.e. flour, rice, oils (common cooking foods))
  4. Home fortification (e.g. vitamin D drops)

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