{"id":11402,"date":"2025-10-27T04:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:26:29","slug":"rice-fortification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rice-fortification\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Fortification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Rice Fortification:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fortification is the process of <strong>adding Fortified Rice Kernels<\/strong> (FRK), containing FSSAI prescribed micronutrients (Iron, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12) to normal Rice in the ratio of 1:100 (Mixing 1 Kg of FRK with 100 Kg custom milled rice).<\/li>\n<li>Fortified rice is <strong>nearly identical to traditional rice<\/strong> in aroma, taste, and texture. This process is done in the rice mills at the time of milling of rice.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>cost effective, culturally appropriate strategy<\/strong> to address micronutrient deficiency in countries with high per capita rice consumption.<\/li>\n<li>Rice Fortification is a 2 step process \u2013 (1) Production of Fortified Rice Kernels (FRK) (2) Blending of rice with FRK<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processes used for rice is fortification<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Various technologies, such as <strong>coating, dusting, and \u2018extrusion\u2019<\/strong>, are available to add <strong>micronutrients to regular rice<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Adding micronutrient technology involves the production of <strong>fortified rice kernels<\/strong> (FRKs) from a mixture using an \u2018extruder\u2019 machine. It is considered to be the best technology for India.<\/li>\n<li>Dry rice flour is mixed with a <strong>premix of micronutrients<\/strong>, and water is added to this mixture, which is then passed through a twin-screw extruder with heating zones.<\/li>\n<li>Kernels similar in shape and size to rice are produced, which must \u201cresemble the normal milled rice as closely as possible\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The kernels are dried, cooled, and packaged. FRK has a <strong>shelf life of at least 12 months.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The kernels are blended with regular rice to produce fortified rice. Under the Ministry\u2019s guidelines, 10 g of FRK must be blended with 1 kg of regular rice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/food-safety-and-standards-authority-of-india-fssai\/\" target=\"_blank\">FSSAI<\/a> norms, 1 kg of fortified rice will contain the following: iron (28 mg-42.5 mg), folic acid (75-125 microgram), and vitamin B-12 (0.75-1.25 microgram).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an autonomous body established under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The FSSAI has been established under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, which is a consolidating statute related to food safety and regulation in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/what-is-fortified-rice-why-did-centre-extend-initiative-for-its-distribution-in-schemes-9612561\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is fortified rice? Why did Centre extend initiative for its distribution in schemes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice Fortification is nearly identical to traditional rice in aroma, taste, and texture. This process is done in the rice mills at the time of milling of rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}