Vitamin D fortification: A perspective to improve immunity for COVID-19 infection
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چکیده
The need for food fortification arises because of the close relationship between humans, health, and food. problem prevalence micronutrient malnutrition paved a way to emerge run in this technological era. This review focuses on importance vitamin D present pandemic situation techniques used fortification. Stability bio-accessibility are biggest question process as large proportion is lost during processing storage due environmental stress conditions such temperature, pH, salt, oxygen, light. Vitamin an important required prevention respiratory disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular cancer etc. which make it essential enhancing immunity against COVID-19. Food most efficient safest method recognized by WHO. update D, considering its role adopted. Among all techniques, nanoencapsulation found be one with increasing demand.Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Fortification, Microencapsulation, Nanoencapsulation, Emulsification
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عنوان ژورنال: Functional food science
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2767-3146']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31989/ffs.v1i10.843