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Nutritional additives mean addition of pure compounds like vitamin, mineral, amino acid, and fatty acid to maintain or improve the nutritional quality of food. It is also added for other purposes, like vitamin C and E are added as antioxidant, and carotenoids are added to improve color.

Nutritional additives include fortification of salt with iodine, enrichment of cereal and dairy products with vitamin A, B, and D, enrichment of fruit beverages with vitamin C, essential fatty acid, mineral, and fiber [11].