Abstract
Food fortification is an important nutrition intervention to fight micronutrient deficiencies and to reduce their incidence in many low‐ and middle‐income countries. Food fortification approaches experienced a significant rise in the recent years and have generated a lot of criticism. The present review aimed to shed light on the actual effect of food fortification approaches on the reduction of malnutrition. A set of 100 articles and reports, which have dealt with the impact of food fortification on malnutrition, were included in this review. This review identified a broad selection of local raw materials suitable for a food‐to‐food fortification approach.
Highlights
Micronutrient deficiencies often cause malnutrition that is a crucial public health problem, especially in developing countries (Ramakrishnan, Goldenberg, & Allen, 2011)
Food fortification is considered as the most appropriate preventive approach against malnutrition caused by micronutrient deficiencies (Bhagwat, Gulati, Sachdeva, & Sankar, 2014)
Food fortification has been used as a cost‐effective means to prevent micronutrient malnutrition (Method & Tulchinsky, 2015)
Summary
Micronutrient deficiencies often cause malnutrition that is a crucial public health problem, especially in developing countries (Ramakrishnan, Goldenberg, & Allen, 2011). They generate several diseases either infectious or chronic and impacts the life's quality and epidemiological parameters such as morbidity and mortality (Verma, 2015). Food fortification is considered as the most appropriate preventive approach against malnutrition caused by micronutrient deficiencies (Bhagwat, Gulati, Sachdeva, & Sankar, 2014). The present review: (a) presents the history of knowledge and know‐how from conventional food fortification to food‐to‐food fortification, (b) assesses challenges of food fortification, and (c) documents best practices and benefits of food‐to‐food fortification approaches
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