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Recent Aspects of Fortified Foods: An Overview on Field Testing Tools and Fortification Program Analysis Methods

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Malnutrition is a current global challenge faced by mankind, mainly caused due to deficiency and excess of macro and micronutrients such as growth retardation, anemia, mental retardation, overweight, night blindness, reduced IQ, neural tube defects, cancer, hypertension and depression, etc. According to UNICEF, India was at the tenth position among countries with the highest number of underweight children and at the 17th position for the highest number of stunted children in the world. Fortification of staple food with macro and micronutrients is the common practice to meet the deficiency disorders and to provide complete growth. Despite decades of scientific research in this area, still complications arise for establishing connecting links from individual energy intake levels of targeted population to policy making, implementation, and evolution. Thus, the present chapter aims to cover the details about field testing kits for analysis fortificant levels of iron and vitamin followed by brief concepts about the practicing methods used for diet assessment at individual, household, and population level to decision making at analyst and policy maker levels during implementation of food fortification program. Overview of field-testing tools and fortification program analysis methods could help for development of more stringent protocol which could meet the global standards for implementation of fortification program.

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Patruni, K., Kaur, G. (2022). Recent Aspects of Fortified Foods: An Overview on Field Testing Tools and Fortification Program Analysis Methods. In: Kumar, A., Patruni, K., Singh, V. (eds) Recent Advances in Food Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8125-7_12

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