The practice of deliberately adding vitamins or minerals to a widely consumed food, such as iodizing salt or adding folic acid to flour, to correct a micronutrient deficiency across a whole population without requiring individual behavior change. It is credited with sharply reducing conditions such as goiter and neural tube birth defects where adopted at scale.
Facts
Origin YearThe year iodized salt was introduced in the United States, the first large scale food fortification program. Practice ClassNutrition science, public health 2 Classification
Practice ClassPreventive or Public Health Practice 1 Connections
Associated With
Micronutrient, Concepts Fortification is the addition of micronutrients to a food supply.
Source United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
Source World Health Organization Official Site
The World Health Organization recommends large scale food fortification as an evidence informed and cost effective intervention against vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
Source World Health Organization Official Site
In Branch
Source World Health Organization Official Site
Sources
1. United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
US National Institutes of Health- Office of Dietary Supplements, iodine fact sheet
Program classification, entity description sentence
The practice of deliberately adding vitamins or minerals to a widely consumed food, such as iodizing salt or adding folic acid to flour, to correct a micronutrient deficiency across a whole population without requiring individual behavior change.
- Associated With: Micronutrient
View the Source 2. World Health Organization Official Site
World Health OrganizationFood fortification topic
Fortification is the practice of deliberately increasing the content of one or more micronutrients (i.e., vitamins and minerals) in a food or condiment to improve the nutritional quality of the food supply and provide a public health benefit with minimal risk to health.
- In Branch: Nutrition Science
- Associated With: Salt Iodization, eLENA: Salt iodization, fortification definition
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