Enriching Flour, Enriching Lives: The Flour Fortification Initiative
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Wheat, the "Staff of Life", has been an essential commodity to human existence through the centuries and is currently the most widely consumed staple food (Bagriansky, 2002). As versatile as they are nutritious, wheat products have graced tables in all continents. The range of forms this staple food takes is correspondingly varied: crusty French bread, soft Mexican tortillas and spicy Indonesian noodles being a few examples. Fortunately for wheat eaters, wheat flour naturally contains many nutrients essential to human growth and development (Ranum and Wesley, 2003).
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