Food Fortification

With the development of the social economy and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, consumers are more and more concerned about health care. Especially in terms of their daily diet, people tend to pay special attention to the nutritional labeling contained in food. The demand for a healthy diet has also given birth to the development of fortified foods, whose nutritional value is improved by adding a certain amount of essential micro-nutrients to the food. It is worth noting that the process of adding micro-nutrients to food is called food fortification, which is also known as the food enrichment.

Food Nutrition Enhancers

In food fortification, the micro-nutrients added to natural foods are called food nutrition enhancers or food nutritional fortifiers, which can be mainly divided into vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

Here are a few examples of nutritional fortifiers in food fortification.

The addition of iodine (such as potassium iodate and potassium iodide) to table salt can be used to prevent and treat goiter, which fully demonstrates the importance of adding food nutrient fortifiers.
Infant formula or baby formula is a substitute in the case of insufficient or no breast milk. In order to simulate breast milk, it is necessary to add a variety of nutritional fortifiers to the formula. Therefore, the formula not only contains nutrients necessary (such as vitamins and minerals) for the growth and development of infants or babies, but also contains some functional nutritional fortifiers.
Folic acid supplementation is essential for pregnant women to help prevent fetal malformations. It is also useful for preventing cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease in adults. Therefore, folic acid, as a food nutrition enhancer, plays an imperative role in formula milk powder, solid beverages and other foods.

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Fortified Foods

In food fortification, foods that have been fortified with additional nutrients are called fortified foods. Compared with natural foods, fortified foods have better nutritional value and are more beneficial to health. There are many types of nutritionally fortified foods.
According to the type of consumption, fortified foods are divided into the following.

Staple foods, such as rice and flour.
Non-staple foods, such as fish, meat, sausages and sauces.
Essential foods in public systems, such as drinking water.

According to different consumption groups, nutritionally fortified foods can be divided into general foods, infant foods, pregnancy foods, elderly foods, military foods and so on.

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Why Food Fortification Is Necessary?

Balance food nutrition

Balance food nutrition

Different regions and living standards, food varieties, and dietary habits tend to influence people's preferences when it comes to eating. On the other hand, it is almost impossible for natural food to meet all the nutritional needs of the human body. And certain nutritional deficiencies will occur in a considerable number of people because of both reasons. As a result, food fortification is regarded as a way to enhance the physique of users and prevent and reduce the occurrence of diseases by adding specific nutrients to their diets.

Meet the needs of specific groups

In order to meet the specific dietary and health requirements of some people, some foods need to be fortified with nutrients in order to increase their content to exceed the normal level, so that people with certain diseases can consume them. Staff engaged in mining, high temperature, and low temperature operations require high energy and high nutrition due to their particular working conditions. Therefore, food fortification also plays a key role for specific populations.

Meet the needs of specific groups

Simplify complex meals

A single natural food is not sufficient to meet the full nutritional needs of people, which leads to lengthy recipes and thus complicates the diet. Nutritional fortification of food can make a single food have multiple nutrients, so complex meal processing can also be simplified.

Compensate for the loss of nutrients

Foods with natural nutritional properties tend to lose some nutrients during processing, storage and transportation. The loss of natural nutrients caused by food processing can be supplemented and strengthened by adding a certain proportion of nutrients to the food.

As a supplier of dietary supplements, Alfa Chemistry offers a wide range of high-quality nutritional ingredients. Some of them can be used as nutritional enhancers to fortify foods. You can find the nutrients you need in the search bar. If you do not find the product you need, please feel free to contact us.

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