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  2. Food fortification - Wikipedia

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    Food fortification is the addition of micronutrients (essential trace elements and vitamins) to food products. Food enrichment specifically means adding back nutrients lost during food processing, while fortification includes adding nutrients not naturally present. [ 1 ]

  3. Enriched flour - Wikipedia

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    This differentiates enrichment from fortification, which is the process of introducing new nutrients to a food. 79 countries have fortification or enrichment for wheat or maize flour made "mandatory", according to the Global Fortification Data Exchange. [1]

  4. Biofortification - Wikipedia

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    Biofortification differs from ordinary fortification because it focuses on making plant foods more nutritious as the plants are growing, rather than having nutrients added to the foods when they are being processed. This is an important improvement on ordinary fortification when it comes to providing nutrients for the rural poor, who rarely ...

  5. Food processing - Wikipedia

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    Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms. Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour , home cooking , and complex industrial methods used in the making of convenience foods .

  6. Folate - Wikipedia

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    The Food Fortification Initiative lists all countries in the world that conduct fortification programs, [121] and within each country, what nutrients are added to which foods, and whether those programs are voluntary or mandatory. In the US, mandatory fortification of enriched breads, cereals, flours, corn meal, pastas, rice, and other grain ...

  7. Novel food - Wikipedia

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    The enhancement process is called food fortification or nutrification. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Designer novel food often comes with sometimes unproven health claims (" superfoods "). Designer food is distinguished from food design , the aesthetic arrangement of food items for marketing purposes.

  8. Artificial rice - Wikipedia

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    The NutriRice process is a way of rice fortification utilized hot extrusion technology not only addresses the problem of hidden hunger but also meets the challenge of implementing rice fortification. [2] The production of NutriRice offers the unique possibility to efficiently fortify rice with multiple micronutrients.

  9. Food Fortification Initiative - Wikipedia

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    The Food Fortification Initiative (FFI) is an organization that promotes the fortification of industrially milled flours and cereals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] FFI assists country leaders in promoting, planning, implementing, and monitoring the fortification of industrially milled wheat flour , maize flour , and rice . [ 3 ]