Making Fortification Functional

Food formulators are turning to a variety of ingredients—fish oils, soy derivatives, vitamins and minerals, probiotics, whole grains, and many others—for their potential health benefits. But these ingredients pose special production and sensory challenges that first must be overcome if foods and beverages that use them are to be successful in the marketplace.

Helping to stimulate the reformulation of these better-for-you products is a growing number of health claims from the Food and Drug Adminis…