Verka in Chandigarh to serve sweetened milk to students under PM Poshan
The UT school education department is all set to serve sweetened milk once a week to the students. The sweetened milk (130 ML with 3% fat content in tetra pak cartons) will be served to students of 111 government schools and seven government-aided schools in midday meal as part of PM Poshan from next week. […]
Raw milk products can cause serious illness in children
Milk and dairy products are nutritious for children. But raw milk that has not been pasteurized can contain dangerous organisms that pose serious health risks to children and adults. Pasteurization kills harmful bacteria and viruses by heating milk to a specific temperature for a set period of time. The recent outbreak of H5N1 bird flu […]
Will Indian moms forgive Cerelac and Bournvita?
Nestlé’s baby food brand Cerelac has found itself in the eye of a storm with a Swiss investigative organisation saying it contained high levels of added sugar in the products sold in India and other developing markets. As samples from the brand tested in European markets found no added sugar, Nestlé had to field […]
Fact check on nutrition of health drinks like Bournvita and Horlicks
Malt-based drinks like Bournvita, Complan & Horlicks are top supplements in India, especially for children, but growing awareness, stricter norms may put an end to that. In the late 1800s, British pharmacist James Horlick and his brother William immigrated to the US where they began experimenting with a powdered form of nutritional supplement for infants, […]