Flour Fortification
Wheat is an important cereal crop and together with maize and rice account for 94% of total cereal consumption worldwide. Rice and wheat together accounted for 11.05 kg of monthly per capita cereal consumption in the rural sector and 9.55 kg in the urban.
Fortification of industrially processed wheat flour, when appropriately implemented, is an effective, simple, and inexpensive strategy for supplying vitamins and minerals to the diets of large segments of the world’s population.
Wheat Flour fortification is a preventive food-based approach to improve micronutrient status of populations. Over time that can be integrated with other interventions in the efforts to reduce vitamin and mineral deficiencies when identified as public health problems.
Hence fortification of this staple food is gaining momentum especially as it is strongly backed by the scientific panel on fortification, medical experts and the academia.
Flour Fortification with MICRONUTRIENTS
Wheat Flour Fortification
The technology for fortifying wheat flour is simple and cost-effective.
- The principle of flour fortification is to blend some amount of flour with vitamin and mineral premix before mixing it with the remaining flour in a continuous mixer.
- Micronutrients in the form of a premix are added through a volumetric feeder located towards the end of the milling process.
- The screw rotates inside a chamber containing the premix and pushes the premix through an outlet spout.
- The amount of premix added to the flour can be modified by changing the motor speed.
- The fortiflour premix can be either fed directly into the flour by gravity or by air convection using a pneumatic system. In a gravity driven system, best site for adding micronutrients is before the midpoint along the screw conveyor that collects flour from all the mill passages, just before bulk storage or sacking.
- Iron:
(a) Atta – 20mg (Sodium Iron (III) Ethylene diamine tetra Acetate, Trihydrate)
(b) Maida- 60mg (Ferrous citrate, ferrous lactate, ferrous sulphate, ferrous pyrophosphate, ferrous fumarate); 20mg (Sodium Iron (III) Ethylene diamine tetra Acetate, Trihydrate),
Folic acid-1300µg - Vitamin B12 -10 µg (Cyanocobalamine, Hydroxycobalamine)
- Zinc – 30mg(Zinc sulphate)
- Vitamin A- 1500 µg RE
- Thiamine-3.5mg (Thiamine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate)
- Riboflavin- 4mg (Riboflavin)
- Niacin- 42mg( Nicotinamide, Nicotinic acid)
- Pyridoxine- 5mg (Pyridoxine hydrochloride)
| Product Name | Nutrient | Minimum Level of Nutrient (per kg of Atta) | Claim/ 100g of Premix | Source
of Nutrient |
| Fortiflour (Option 1) | Folic acid | 1300 mcg | 650 mg | Folic acid |
| Vitamin B12 | 10 mcg | 5mg | Cyanocobalamine | |
| Iron | 20 mg | 10000 mg | Sodium Iron (III) Ethylene diamine tetra acetate |
| Product Name | Nutrient | Minimum Level of Nutrient (per kg of Atta) | Source
of Nutrient |
| Fortiflour
(Option 2) |
Folic acid | 1300 mcg | Folic acid |
| Vitamin B12 | 10 mcg | Cyanocobalamine | |
| Iron | 20 mg | Sodium Iron (III) Ethylene diamine tetra acetate | |
| Zinc | 30 mg | Zinc Sulphate | |
| Vitamin A | 1500 mcg RE | Retinyl acetate | |
| Thiamine (Vitamin B1) | 3.5 mg | Thiamine mononitrate | |
| Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) | 4mg | Riboflavin | |
| Niacin | 42mg | Nicotinamide | |
| Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6) | 5mg | Pyridoxine hydrochloride |
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Health Claims
- Fortified
- Helps improve bone health& vision
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