They say an easy-to-understand, front-of-the-pack labelling system is needed to warn consumers.
A supermarket shelf in India with "health drinks" aimed at children. Such beverages have come under scrutiny for their sugar content.
Even a chocolate bar, for instance, could get stars for added healthy ingredients such as fruit and nuts, masking its high sugar content. But Dr Arun Gupta, the convener of Nutrition Advocacy in Public Interest, a think-tank that focuses on nutrition-related issues, told The Straits Times: “It should not be seen as if the FSSAI has done its duty and that this is all that is needed.”
Sales of packaged processed and ultra-processed food have risen rapidly in India, across urban and rural areas, as well as socioeconomic groups. The frequent consumption of packaged food, especially processed and ultra-processed food, along with a more sedentary lifestyle, have been linked to this increased disease burden.Since 2015, obesity rates in India have gone up from 20.6 per cent to 24 per cent among women and from 18.9 per cent to 22.9 per cent among men.
This has also added weight to demands for a simple and effective FOPL warning system accessible by different linguistic groups.Children’s ‘health drink’ stirs up a storm in India over high sugar content
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