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Rising consumption of processed, packaged food in India to affect health outcome
Updated On: 08 September, 2024 07:48 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
This increase was universal across the classes but more pronounced for the country`s top 20 per cent of households and significantly more in urban areas
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The rising consumption of processed and packaged food in India will likely affect health outcomes and policies may be required to regulate the nutritional content of these foods and promote healthier alternatives, a government paper has stressed.
According to the paper, titled ‘Changes in India’s Food Consumption and Policy Implications,’ by the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to the Prime Minister, across regions and consumption classes, “we observe a significant increase in the share of household expenditure on served and packaged processed food”.
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