Processed Foods

Full meal or package deal?

With lobbying going on to replace cooked meals in the mid-day meal programme with processed foods like biscuits, this article reports on a consultation earlier this year that saw academicians, medical professionals, and nutrition and public health experts discuss the impact of providing dry rations versus cooked foods.

Publication Date:

14/06/2008

Author(s): Rama V Baru, Rajib Dasgupta, Mita Deshpande & et al

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

43

Issue:

24

pp:

20

Tags:

Nutrition, Malnutrition, Processed Foods, Food Process Industry, Child Health, Nutritional Diseases, India, Statistics

Health

Nutritional value of germinated wheat and soybean based supplementary foods

An experiment was conducted to develop and evaluate energy and protein rich supplementary foods. Products namely Seviyan, Halwa, Pinjiri and Pinni were developed using combinations of germinated wheat and soybean and carrot powder for 4-6 years old children. Organoleptic evaluation, proximate principles, carotene, iron and calcium were determined using standardized methods.

Publication Date:

01/06/2008

Author(s): B. Sadana, P. Bakhetia, R. Aggarwal

Source: Indian Journal of Ecology

Vol:

35

Issue:

1

pp:

87

Tags:

Nutrition, Processed Foods, Health, Child Health, India

Health

The M in IMA

recently, the Indian Medical Association (ima) earned the dubious distinction of being the first association of medical professionals in the world to endorse a food brand. And that too of a company best known for its brands of non-nutritive and unsafe carbonated beverages. Going by the law of the land, this "endorsement' is illegal. The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 clearly makes it illegal to label foods as wothy of being recommended by the medical profession.

Publication Date:

30/05/2008

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

17

Issue:

20080531

pp:

0

Tags:

Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Processed Foods, PepsiCo, Fruit Juice Industry, Health Effects, Health Policy, Health Personnel, India

IMA to endorse PepsiCo's food products

the Indian Medical Association (ima) will now endorse PepsiCo's Tropicana fruit juices and its breakfast cereal Quaker Oats

Publication Date:

30/05/2008

Author(s): Vibha Varshney

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Nutrition, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Processed Foods, PepsiCo, Fruit Juice Industry, Health Effects, Health Policy, Health Personnel, Pesticides And Toxins, India

Health

Personal Thought: Processed food eating costs health

It's no secret that over the past few decades, an increasing number of Americans have been coping with a personal energy crisis: an over-consumption of body "fuel" that has contributed to soaring rates of obesity, adult-onset diabetes, and a host of related health problems.

Publication Date:

24/04/2008

Source: Central Chronicle (Bhopal)

Tags:

Nutrition, Processed Foods, Health Effects

Industry

Oceanic Edibles to set up food processing units

Ties up with farmers for contract farming of prawns Unveiling plans The proposed processing plant will have two units (to process marine foods and vegetables and fruits) with an overall 3.5 tonnes an hour capacity. The firm's hatcheries division will supply seed and feed with buyback guarantee to farmers with whom it has tied up for contract farming. R. Ravikumar

Publication Date:

19/04/2008

Source: Business Line (New Delhi)

Tags:

Processed Foods, Food Process Industry, Fish Processing, Tamil Nadu

Pesticides And Toxins

Simplifying the pesticide: the organic option risk equation

This new State of Science Review by The Organic Center on pesticide residues and risk provides answers to frequently asked questions about relatively-high risk foods, as well as foods that pose no or modest dietary risks. Their findings are encouraging.

Publication Date:

01/03/2008

Author(s): Charles Benbrook

Source: The Organic Center

Tags:

Organic Farming, Organic Foods, Processed Foods, Health Effects, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Residues

Food Policy

Food safety standards and export competitiveness in the food and processed food industries in Asia-Pacific countries

Developing country producers face several constraints related to food safety standards imposed by developed countries. The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting export flows with respect to food safety standards; and to measure the effects of food safety standards on exports. This study incorporates a food safety variable in a gravity model.

Publication Date:

02/04/2007

Author(s): Md. Ashfaqul I. Babool, Michael R. Reed

Source: University of Kentucky

Tags:

Food Supply, Food Standards, Processed Foods, Food Process Industry, Pesticides And Toxins, Food Safety, Asia

Livestock