“Trans fats” are responsible for more than 500,000 premature deaths in India each year. They are a serious problem worldwide, and have the largest share among the root causes of...
The growth of online businesses like Amazon is posing challenges for local kirana shops in India where they are earning reduced margins, lesser footfalls, losing out on efficient optimized...
In Continuation to FSSAI’s direction dated on December 29, 2017, June 29, 2018, August 24, 2018 and December 31, 2019 Food Safety and Standards Authority allowed FBO’s to continue existing...
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is the premier body in the country, assigned with the task of defining the Food Standards and ensuring Compliance through Inspections. The main...
Various questions are pouring in media across the globe recently regarding the authenticity of spices. Contamination of spices created alarm among everyone. Recently, a study in the journal of...
India is known for its rich and varied culture of food. The flavour and taste of food products increases with the addition of different spices. But the seasoning that we buy in the market are...
Salt is a mineral composed mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl). It is essential for life in general, and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. As per FSSAI edible common salt can further be...
Saffron (popularly known as Kesar in India) is a dried stigma of the flower – Crocus sativus. In appearance, it is dark red in color and threadlike. The odor of saffron is pungent and it...
Indian food is incomplete without spices and condiments. The flavour and aroma of these spices have a central place in Indian food. Mixed masala spice up the flavour and aroma of Indian cooking....
What is common about glucose, fructose, pentose, hexose, sucrose? They all have the suffix “ose”. Yes, right and diabetologists are obsessed with the dire effects of these sweet substances on the...
India is going to celebrate the First World Food Safety Day on the 7th of June 2019. It is indeed a paradigm shift in how we approach the subject of food today in our country. Gone are the days of...
FSSAI have launched the Pink Book as a guide to provide safe and nutritious food in every household. The book comprises of eight sections which includes Selecting and purchasing food, Storing...