VADODARA: Food fortification is the only economically viable choice available to India which is dealing with a huge burden of micronutrient deficiencies.
This is what mavens opined on Friday at a seminar on ‘Nutrition in action: Opportunities for interventions’ organised by way of M S University’s Department of Foods and Nutrition and Foods and Nutrition Alumni Association of Faculty of Family and Community Sciences.
According to mavens, nation is dealing with massive burden of deficiencies led to by way of diet A, iodine, iron and folic acid main to night blindness, goitre, anaemia and quite a lot of beginning defects.
The 2015-16 knowledge of the National Family Health Survey-4 unearths that 58.4% of youngsters between six to 59 months are anaemic. Similarly, 53.1% girls within the reproductive age group are anaemic while 35.7% of youngsters under five are underweight.
“Through meals fortification, we will scale back 30% of micronutrient deficiencies that nation’s inhabitants is dealing with. This can transform a big enhance device,” said Dr Deepti Gulati, head of techniques at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
With the enhance of stakeholders, GAIN has expanded its paintings in 18 states of the rustic. “As in step with our knowledge, 46% of the packaged oil this is now available within the nation is fortified while 30% of the branded milk is also fortified. Our target is to cover all of the nation within the next five years,” she said.
According to Gulati, fortified oil has now reached to 36 crore inhabitants while fortified milk has reached to just about 40-50 million customers within the nation.
“Similarly, fortified flour has reached nearly 11 crore inhabitants within the nation. But our greatest problem is still to persuade customers regarding fortified flour as packaged flour is still not most well-liked by way of customers to an excessively massive extent,” she said.
This is what mavens opined on Friday at a seminar on ‘Nutrition in action: Opportunities for interventions’ organised by way of M S University’s Department of Foods and Nutrition and Foods and Nutrition Alumni Association of Faculty of Family and Community Sciences.
According to mavens, nation is dealing with massive burden of deficiencies led to by way of diet A, iodine, iron and folic acid main to night blindness, goitre, anaemia and quite a lot of beginning defects.
The 2015-16 knowledge of the National Family Health Survey-4 unearths that 58.4% of youngsters between six to 59 months are anaemic. Similarly, 53.1% girls within the reproductive age group are anaemic while 35.7% of youngsters under five are underweight.
“Through meals fortification, we will scale back 30% of micronutrient deficiencies that nation’s inhabitants is dealing with. This can transform a big enhance device,” said Dr Deepti Gulati, head of techniques at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
With the enhance of stakeholders, GAIN has expanded its paintings in 18 states of the rustic. “As in step with our knowledge, 46% of the packaged oil this is now available within the nation is fortified while 30% of the branded milk is also fortified. Our target is to cover all of the nation within the next five years,” she said.
According to Gulati, fortified oil has now reached to 36 crore inhabitants while fortified milk has reached to just about 40-50 million customers within the nation.
“Similarly, fortified flour has reached nearly 11 crore inhabitants within the nation. But our greatest problem is still to persuade customers regarding fortified flour as packaged flour is still not most well-liked by way of customers to an excessively massive extent,” she said.
‘Food fortification only economically viable option to battle malnutrition’
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