FSSAI Blogs

Ensuring Safe and Nutritious Food: The Vital Role of FSSAI in India

In today's health-conscious world, the significance of access to safe and nutritious food cannot be overstated. As consumers become increasingly aware of the link between diet and overall well-being, the responsibility falls on regulatory bodies to uphold food safety standards. In India, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) stands as a cornerstone of assurance, ensuring the safety of the food supply chain across the nation for protecting public health and maintaining consumer confidence.

June 7, 2024

By Shri G. Kamala Vardhana Rao

Eat Right India: Transforming India’s Food Landscape

As the world advances and systems become more complex, food choices are changing drastically across the globe. Today, with rapid urbanization and changing lifestyles, dietary patterns have shifted towards pre-packaged foods, frozen foods, and fast food, including fried foods and desserts. This shift is increasing the burden of diet-related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. India faces a silent epidemic today of rising childhood obesity coupled with under-nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

June 7, 2024

By Shri Uma Shankar Dhyani

HOW TO READ FOOD LABELS: “CHOOSE HEALTHY AND STAY HEALTHY”

All of us want to eat healthy and stay healthy. For that, we need to choose healthy food.
Do you find it challenging when it comes to making healthy food choices? Do not worry. The food label is a simple and quick tool to help you make healthy food choices.

June 7, 2024

By DR. SUNEETA CHANDORKAR

Rhodamine B and Associated Food Safety Issues

“Whatever may be the father of a disease, all ill-diet is the mother” as was rightly pronounced by Dr. George Herbert. Unhealthy processed foods have become a part of our daily diet. Such foods are often added with illegal food dyes specifically synthetic ones as coloring agents having genotoxic or carcinogenic properties and thus is a matter of public health concern. Consumption of artificial food dye has increased many folds in the last 50 years, and children are the biggest consumers.

June 7, 2024

By Dr. Debadutta Mishra

Dietary Diversity for a Healthy Lifestyle

Dietary diversity refers to the variety of different foods or food groups consumed over a specific period, typically in a day or a week. It is a key component of a healthy diet, emphasizing the consumption of a broad range of nutrients necessary for maintaining health and preventing disease.

June 7, 2024

By Ms. Rima Rao, RD

Fortified Foods

Maternal and child undernutrition is very common in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). A particularly widespread problem in LMICs is “hidden hunger”, or a chronic lack of essential vitamins and minerals such as iron, zinc, iodine, vitamin A and folic acid in the diet.

June 7, 2024

By Dr Asna Urooj

Chrono Nutrition

Chrono nutrition is a concept that aligns eating patterns with the body's natural circadian rhythms that regulates the wake and sleep cycle in response to changes in light.
Chrono nutrition is a holistic approach to eating that considers the impact of meal timings on body's natural circadian rhythms and metabolic patterns.

June 7, 2024

By Dr Meenakshi Bajaj MSc, RD, CDE, CCN (U.S) PhD.

Heavy Metals and Food Safety

All living organisms are made up of macro elements viz. Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorous etc. as body constituents and micro elements viz. Iron, Cobalt and Zink which are constituents of body metabolism. Heavy metals are micro elements and are so called because of their high density and also biological importance in trace amounts; the term heaviness is also linked to their toxicity.

June 7, 2024

By Dr. Debadutta Mishra