This course explores food fortification as a proven, cost-effective, and safe strategy to combat micronutrient deficiencies - often called "hidden hunger" - affecting populations who consume sufficient calories but lack essential vitamins and minerals. This course demonstrates how adding nutrients to widely consumed staple foods such as wheat flour, corn flour, rice, edible oil, and salt can deliver key nutrients at scale and support healthier, more productive communities.
This course covers the fundamentals of food fortification, including the case for why it is needed, how it works in practice, and what large-scale implementation looks like. This course walks you through how to plan, implement, and monitor fortification programs, with particular attention to why wheat flour is among the most commonly fortified staples and how the fortification process is carried out.
This course also examines the costs and broader value of fortifying food, equipping you with the knowledge to be part of the solution to global micronutrient deficiency.