Impact and storage stability of double fortified salt

Globally, Anemia affects 1.62 billion people that correspond to 24.8 per cent of the population. The highest prevalence is in preschool age children-293 million (47.4%), among school children prevalence affected305 million (25.4%) and with the greatest number of individuals affected is non-pregnant women468.4 million (30.2%). Iron deficiency is a principal cause of Anemia.1 Iron deficiency continues to be the leading single nutritional deficiency in the world, despite considerable efforts over the past three decades has been done to decrease its prevalence. National programmes to control and prevent anemia have not been successful after a period of even three decades due to several factors responsible for it like use of low fortification level, low consumption of iron fortified food by the population due to lack of access and its availability, socio-economic factors, and parasitic infections etc. So, Ministry of women and children has now recommended combination of different approaches including dietary diversification, fortification and supplementation. Supplementation of double fortified salt in daily meal preparations helps in the reduction of anemia among the vulnerable group like adolescents and school children.2–4 For this supplementation strategy, salt is one of the food vehicles available for food fortification technique. Salt dual-fortified with iodine and micronized ground ferric pyrophosphate (FePP) is sound approach to control the micronutrient deficiency along with improving upon nutritional status. The Micronutrient Initiative formulation uses physical separation of iodine by microencapsulation technique and this salt is stable for usage for a period of six months in different storage containers like metal, plastic, glass and zip-lock pouches for retention of micro-nutrients.5–8 So the present work has been an attempt to review the stability and impact of double fortified salt in reducing the prevalence of Anemia.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Advances in Plants & Agriculture Research

• Publication date

  2018-06-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.15406/apar.2018.08.00330
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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