Although steaming resulted in harder texture of rice premix, which is desirable to prevent from breakage during mixing with unfortified rice, steaming lowered the iron content in the rice premix (P < 0.01), which is quite undesirable. The magnitude of reduction in the iron content due to steaming varied from 5.51% to 41.30% in iron-fortified rice premix prepared using soaking method, while it was 5.52% to 19.98% in rice premix prepared using spraying method.