Nestle Launches Sugar-Free Cerelac Variants in India
FMCG major Nestle India on Thursday said it will soon launch variants “with no refined sugar” of its infant food Cerelac. The announcement is important as Nestle India, part of Swiss multinational Nestle SA, recently faced criticism for having added sugar in Cerelac. In the company’s earnings statement CMD Suresh Narayanan said: “We have achieved […]
Food labels misleading, India’s new dietary guidelines warn-ICMR
The recently released dietary guidelines by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) warned that the information presented on packaged food can be misleading. “Health claims on packaged food are designed to catch the consumer’s attention and convince them that the product is healthy,” the guidelines drafted with the help of the National Institute of […]