In September, the Nigerian government made an important change to its food fortification program to date—a set of standards outlining that voluntarily fortified bouillon cubes must contain minimum ...

Vitamin D concentrations in Finnish adults have risen clearly in recent decades, according to a large-scale follow-up study conducted at the University of Oulu, Finland. This favorable development ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A majority of the lower-income population depend on government subsidized baladi bread to make ends meet. Bread is a staple in the ...

Helena Pachón works for the Food Fortification Initiative. She receives funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another reason iron doesn’t make the big leagues is that people ...

Kenya, like many other countries, faces tremendous challenges in raising healthy and strong children. Malnutrition, particularly micronutrient deficiencies, has been a long-standing problem, hurting ...

Did you know that one-third of our world’s people – across all income levels – suffer from what can potentially be a disabling or life-threatening form of vitamin and mineral deficiency? In fact, iron ...

The Punjab government has rolled out a much needed initiative to address nutritional deficiencies and achieve fortified ...

Today, nearly half of children born in urban and a quarter of those born in rural Kenya are likely to suffer brain and spinal cord defects due to folate (Vitamin B9) deficiency. Moreover, about a ...

Associate Project Scientist Kimberly Ryan Wessells, Professor Stephen Vosti, Associate Professor Reina Engle-Stone, Charles Arnold of the UC Davis Institute for Global Nutrition and Ph.D. candidate ...