Women in metro cities, on an average, consume higher quantities of added sugar than their male counterparts. The overall sugar intake of people in Mumbai is the highest among all the metropolitan cities, according to a survey by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), and sponsored by International Life Sciences Institute-India (ILSI-India).
The National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) had collated the dietary data from 16 major states during 2015-16 and re-coded it recipe-wise and metro city-wise to arrive at the conclusions. The findings were released recently.
It showed that, in general, women in metro cities consumed 20.2