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One approach to ensuring Food and Nutrition Security is to fortify foods with nutrients whose intakes are considered critical for good health. This can be done either by replacing what has been lost during food processing or by adding additional amounts of certain nutrients. In either instance, it is the responsibility of the ingredients supplier to provide products that comply with the physical-chemical properties of the food to which they are added. Moreover, along with the desired nutritional value, the final product has to offer the authentic taste demanded by the consumer. Another option besides food fortification is the provision of dietary supplements. These can be designed to meet basic nutritional needs, as in the case of multivitamin preparations, or to deliver individual nutrients to fill gaps in the diet. The challenge for the food ingredients supplier is to have not only the prerequisite technical capabilities but also the necessary expertise to develop, in close collaboration with the private and public sectors, solutions that the consumer will accept.
DSM is the world’s leading supplier of vitamins, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and carotenoids besides enzymes and other food ingredients. All these nutrients are an integral part of our diet and are necessary for good health. DSM’s ingredients portfolio comprises many essential nutrients which are insufficiently present in the diets of people suffering from Food and Nutrition Insecurity. Suppliers such as DSM produce these ingredients and formulate them in such ways that they may be added to a range of foods, dietary supplements and animal feeds by the respective manufacturers without compromising their efficacy or bioavailability.
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Wubbolts, M. (2017). Improving Food and Nutrition Security in Affluent Societies: The View of a Food Ingredients Manufacturer. In: Biesalski, H., Drewnowski, A., Dwyer, J., Strain, J., Weber, P., Eggersdorfer, M. (eds) Sustainable Nutrition in a Changing World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55942-1_19
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