Bio-enrichment: production of vitamins in fermented foods

Abstract

Less than a hundred years ago, vitamin deficiency diseases were common in the United States. Unfortunately hundreds of millions of people still suffer from a variety of vitamin-deficiency diseases in the developing world. Each year millions of children become permanently blind via xerophthalmia caused by a lack of vitamin A in the diet. Surrounded by quantities of green and leafy vegetables, no child should be lacking vitamin A and have to suffer life-time blindness. Lack of proper nutrition education is the problem.