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Snack nutrition campaign
July 19 , 2025
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- The Indian Health Ministry has launched a national campaign to promote the awareness about the nutritional content of popular snacks.
- The initiative focuses on revealing hidden sugars, oils, and trans fats in everyday Indian snack foods to combat rising lifestyle-related diseases.
- A pilot project began at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Nagpur.
- The Popular Indian snacks like samosas, pakoras, chai biscuits, and jalebis are highlighted for their high sugar, oil, and trans-fat content.
- These ingredients are linked to the obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and the cancer.
- A report by the Lancet warns that India could have around 450 million overweight or obese people by 2050, ranking second globally after China.
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