This latest study of PATH’s rice fortification technology, Ultra Rice, found that simply fortifying rice with iron improved iron status more among infants in the vulnerable 6-24 month age group more than iron drops. It was published in the Journal of Nutrition and you can open the full-text version free here.

It was presented at the 15th Congress of La Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutrición in Sangiago Chile. Click here to access the presentation. SLAN holds congresses every three years. In Chile we were delighted that it received the Kellogg’s Award for the best study in the field of nutrition to emerge from Latin America since the previous meeting. The award is uploaded here. The judges stated that it won for its interesting methodology and “for its creative form of using rice as a vehicle for iron fortification.”