The Covid-19 pandemic made more people stock up on packaged foods in the fear that fresh ingredients would either become unavailable or harder to access in lockdown. Now, food packages contain a lot of details and apart from glancing at the price and use-by date, not many people really focus on the other significant fine print. 

Every year the first week of September — from September 1 to September 7 — is celebrated as National Nutrition Week in India. The aim is to create awareness about the need for proper nutrition to lead a healthy lifestyle. The theme for 2021 is ‘feeding smart right from the start’ to emphasise on the need to eat right from the time children are born. With easy access, increasing dependency and consumption of packaged foods, it is important to know more about the details being shared on them to not only understand their nutritional value but also to lead a healthy lifestyle.