Journal of Food Science and Toxicology

Food fortification also known as enrichment is the way toward including micronutrients (fundamental follow components and nutrients) to food. It very well may be completed by food producers or by governments as a general wellbeing strategy which plans to diminish the quantity of individuals with dietary lacks inside a populace. The dominating eating routine inside an area can need specific supplements because of the nearby soil or from innate inadequacies inside the staple nourishments; expansion of micronutrients to staples and toppings can forestall huge scope lack sicknesses in these cases.

As characterized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), fortress alludes to "the act of purposely expanding the substance of a basic micronutrient, ie. nutrients and minerals (counting follow components) in a food, in order to improve the nourishing nature of the food flexibly and to furnish a general medical advantage with negligible hazard to wellbeing", though advancement is characterized as "interchangeable with fortress and alludes to the expansion of micronutrients to a food which are lost during preparing".