This invention provides processes and apparatus for enhancing the nutritional value of food products. Nutrition enhancing agents are applied or dispensed onto or into food products during their manufacture by food grade controlled droplet dispensing heads (or head). In preferred embodiments the dispensing heads are controlled by a controller such as a programmed PC type computer in dependence on sensor data such as electromechanical optical or image sensor data. The controller and sensors operate so that different food items can have selected nutrition enhancing agents properly applied or dispensed without waste or overspray. The invention also provides food products which have been enhanced according to the provided processes and apparatus with nutrition enhancing agents.
