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