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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicBaby food

Topic: Baby food

FSSAI expert panel reviewing norms that allow 20% carbs in form of sugar in baby foods

Even as FSSAI expert panel reviews norms and prepares recommendations, experts lay emphasis on need to develop baby foods from minimally processed natural ingredients.

Want your children to eat healthier? Start by consuming a better diet yourself, US study says

Researchers say that parents tend to choose unhealthy foods for themselves after choosing a healthy meal for their young children. This dynamic isn't ideal.

Govt shoots off letters to doctors, seeks answer on seminars ‘sponsored’ by baby-food makers

In a separate letter to the Women & Child Development Ministry, the Ministry of Health has said the matter needs to be examined and ‘necessary actions’ taken.

Global firms Abbott, Danone under Modi govt lens again for breaking law to promote baby food

Complaint by NGO Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India has accused Abbott and Danone of violating Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods Act.

Abbott Nutrition, Danone Nutricia under govt lens for ‘breaking law to sell baby food’

Both Abbott and Danone have denied the allegations, claiming they had ‘zero tolerance’ for unethical practices.  

Want babies to be healthy? Let them be in charge of what they eat

Letting babies play with food, feeling its texture and learning how it tastes is all part of their development, no matter how messy.

New discovery shows prehistoric parents used baby bottles & cow’s milk 5,000 years ago

Archaeologists have suggested that these objects were used to feed infants, but they might also have fed the sick or elderly.

Nestlé in trouble for ‘influencing doctors to prescribe baby food’ in India

Swiss food giant Nestlé only recently suffered another setback when the Supreme Court revived a class-action suit against it over Maggi instant noodles.

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Rich state, borrowed money: Karnataka’s growth story has a debt problem that is only getting worse

Karnataka contributes billions to national growth and FDI, but its own finances show a revenue deficit, spiralling interest costs, and liabilities crossing Rs 11.2 lakh crore.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.