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The practice of improving the nutritional quality of the food by increasing the content of essential nutrients in the food to improve public health is called fortification. It may be related with protein, oil, vitamin, micronutrient, or mineral content and quality.

The process by which the nutritional quality of the food crops is improved is called biofortification. It increases the nutrient levels during the plant growth in a crop through agronomic practices, modern biotechnology, conventional plant breeding, etc.

Examples-
  • iron-biofortification of rice, cassava, beans, sweet potato, and legumes.
  • Provitamin A carotenoid-biofortification of maize, sweet potato, and cassava.



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Biofortification is a process of breeding crops with higher levels of vitamins, minerals, proteins, and fat content. This method is employed to improve public health. Breeding of crops with improved nutritional quality is undertaken to improve the content of proteins, oil, vitamins, minerals, and micro-nutrients in crops. It is also undertaken to upgrade the quality of oil and proteins. An example of this is a wheat variety known as Atlas 66, which has high protein content in comparison to the existing wheat. In addition, there are several other improved varieties of crop plants such as rice, carrots, spinach etc. which have more nutritious value and more nutrients than the existing varieties.

 
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Biofortification is the process by which the nutritional quality of food crops is improved through agronomic practices, conventional plant breeding, or modern biotechnology.
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