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Food fortification, by adding micronutrients to foods, may alleviate anemia caused by nutritional deficiencies. To model the impact of iron\u2010fortified rice, wheat flour, and salt in India, we simulated three scenarios: no fortification, intermediate fortification (50% coverage for rice and wheat flour and 26.6% coverage for salt, with 100% industry compliance), and maximum fortification (100% coverage and compliance) in WRA. We first used a single\u2010day, 24\u2010h dietary recall survey from the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau to simulate mean iron intake under these scenarios (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u200911,625). We then used data from the National Family Health Survey 4 (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u2009667,258) to simulate hemoglobin changes due to increased iron intake, based on established parameters from a meta\u2010regression analysis. Subsequently, we calculated anemia prevalence. Compared to the no\u2010fortification scenario, the intermediate and maximum fortification scenarios were predicted to increase daily iron intake by 4.3\u20136.5\u2009mg and 8.6\u201313.1\u2009mg (35%\u201353% and 70%\u2013106% increases), respectively, and decrease anemia prevalence from 52.6% to 45\u201048% and 36\u201043%, respectively. Our results suggest that combined fortification of rice, wheat flour, and salt with iron at varying levels of coverage and 100% compliance can improve iron intakes and hemoglobin concentration and thus reduce anemia prevalence among WRA in India.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/mcn.70181","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,24]],"date-time":"2026-08-24T08:49:18Z","timestamp":1787561358000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Quantifying the Potential Impact of Food Fortification on Iron Intake, Hemoglobin Concentration and Anemia Prevalence Among Women of Reproductive Age in India"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6253-5818","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hanqi","family":"Luo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health Emory University Atlanta USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth","family":"Lambert","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health Emory University Atlanta USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinrui","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health Emory University Atlanta USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Manpreet","family":"Chadha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UNICEF Brussels Belgium"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Daniel L\u00f3pez de","family":"Roma\u00f1a","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nutrition International Ottawa Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mandana","family":"Arabi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nutrition International Ottawa Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Helena","family":"Pach\u00f3n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health Emory University Atlanta USA"},{"name":"Food Fortification Initiative Atlanta USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/nyas.14726"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_3_1","volume-title":"The Guidebook Nutritional Anemia","author":"Badham J.","year":"2007"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_4_1","unstructured":"Chadha M. 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