Supplementation, Food Fortification and Dietary Diversification

We automatically associate hunger with not having enough to eat. We have all seen images of acutely undernourished people in disaster areas, and almost one billion people around the world are undernourished. However, not having enough to eat is only part of the problem of hunger. What experts refer to as ‘hidden hunger’ attracts less attention because it does not produce dramatic images, yet while it has gone largely unnoticed, it has assumed dramatic proportions. Two billion people are now affected by it – almost a third of the world’s population (1, 2).