Modelling the public health benefits of fibre fortification in the Chinese population through food reformulation.

Objectives: Various studies have highlighted how consuming adequate dietary fibre (DF) foods could confer multiple potential health benefits to humans, though data suggested that the average intake of the population is below the recommendations. The aim of this study, which involved probabilistic, mathematical and statistical modelling, was to understand, for the first time, how fibre fortification in a broad array of food categories could impact the diet and health status of Chinese consumers.

Design: A simulation-based approach was used to examine the potential impact of fibre fortification.