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AIIMS issues orders to include healthy food items in cafeteria, mess menu

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Wednesday issued orders for inclusion of healthy food items like boiled eggs, milk, sprouts, boiled 'chana' and salad in the menu of the cafeteria and hostel mess. In a communication sent to the chairman of the Cafeteria Management Committee, AIIMS Director M Srinivas said the existing menu of the cafeteria and hostel mess at the institute provides very limited and conventional food like 'samosa', 'kachori' and bread 'pakora' which are considered unhealthy food items. The faculty, resident doctors, nursing officers and other staff members working at AIIMS, New Delhi are involved in patient care and require healthy food to build up and maintain their immunity, the communication said. "Chairman, Cafeteria Management Committee is hereby requested to issue necessary directions to the DGM, Central Cafeteria to make available healthy food like boiled egg, milk, sprouts, boiled 'chana', fruit salad, veg salad, fresh uncut fruits and fresh

Ankit Nagori-led Curefoods aims to expand cloud kitchens across India

Curefoods is expecting to reach annual recurring revenue (ARR) of Rs 1000 crore ($122 million) by the end of this year and it aims to be ready for an IPO in 18 months

Sinful waste that needs to be stopped

The menace of hunger or undernourishment can be mitigated to a considerable extent just by curtailing the wastage of raw food and making a better use of the left-over cooked food

Costly meals: World food index ends year where it began after dramatic run

During the year, the index hit the highest since records started in 1990

Italian Ravioli, Korean Bibimbap top dishes on Swiggy, Biryani most ordered

Biryani continued to set new records with 2.28 biryani orders per second on Swiggy in 2022 while foreign flavours like Italian Ravioli and Korean Bibimbap were the most popular food choices

Today's fertilizer shortage is tomorrow's food crisis: PM Modi at G-20

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday cautioned the G-20 leaders that today's fertiliser shortage could become tomorrow's food crisis as he strongly pitched for maintaining a "stable" supply chain for both manure and food grains. In his address at the G-20 summit here, Modi also highlighted how India ensured food security for its 1.3 billion citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic while supplying food grains to many countries. "The current shortage of fertilizers in terms of food security is also a huge crisis. Today's fertilizer shortage is tomorrow's food crisis, for which the world will not have a solution," Modi told the gathering which included US President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron. "We should build mutual agreement to maintain the supply chain of both manure and food grains stable and assured. In India, for sustainable food security, we are promoting natural farming, and re-popularising nutritious and traditional ...

Intellectual property on the food platter? Proof is in the pudding

While some restaurants abroad have successfully protected their recipes, prior art can prove to be a hurdle in patenting innovative cuisine

ITC cooks up a storm, sets up 12 cloud kitchens and 48 brand outlets

A key lever of the ITC Next strategy is to spot new opportunities at the intersection of digital, sustainability and enterprise strengths

Private solution: Rise in storage helps securing food from damage, loss

A Business Standard analysis found ramping up capacity and engaging the private sector helped FCI's share in total storage to rise to over 50 per cent.

Inga, TIH Singapore tie up to launch PE fund for mid-sized companies

The fund has set an overall target of raising Rs 500 crore and has received commitment of Rs 25 crore

Food Min pushes for wide use of millet products in canteen, office meetings

The Food Ministry on Monday said it has decided to promote millet products like ragi biscuits and cookies in its canteen and all meetings. A directive in this regard has been issued recently in order to promote the consumption of healthy products ahead of the International Year of Millets to be celebrated in 2023. Millets products such as ragi biscuits, cookies, ladoos, baked millet chips etc. as snacks to be served in the meetings. Dosa, idli and vada with millet as the main raw material to be used in the canteens and as far as possible locally available millet-based products should be used, the ministry said in a statement. Ahead of 2023 international year of millets, the Food Ministry has been actively promoting procurement, and consumption of millets in the country and utilization of procured millets for distribution in welfare schemes. Millets consumption confers several benefits and helps in managing lifestyle diseases. Due to their high density of nutrients including vitami

Pizza, pasta and beyond: How Italian food is changing Indian dining

A guide to how to pick and how to cook one the world's most popular cuisines

How real is fake meat? Know the ingredients and health implications

The popularity of plant-based proteins,has increased in recent years as consumers look to eat fewer animal products leading to a projected growth of $3 billion in Australian market by 2030

Need to fix the concept of food subsidies to tackle world hunger crisis

Subsidizing food is largely not an activity that involves the world's poorest people who are most at risk of hunger, but its richest and most amply-fed

Amul bucked Covid blues, launched more than 100 products during lockdown

At a time when other food and beverage (F&B) brands took a hit during the lockdown, Amul was on a product-launching spree.

HUL beats estimates with Rs 2,381-cr net profit in Q1; revenue up 19.6%

Revenue was up 19.6% YoY and profit up 13.5% YoY, its highest-ever quarterly figures

Food stocks dwindling, country staring at severe food crisis: Congress

The Opposition party said the dwindling food stocks in the country were at a 15-year low and at a 50-year low in per capita terms.

First I2U2 projects to promote agriculture, food, green energy in India

The first projects of the I2U2 will be located in India and help with agriculture, food and green energy, according to the joint statement of the four leaders after the group's launch

Putin's Ukraine war has created a food crisis the world can still solve

The invasion has certainly delivered a series of shocks to global commodity markets that have threatened the food security of the most vulnerable countries, especially African ones

Edible oil prices will soften by Rs 15/litre in a few weeks: Industry

Decision arrived at today during a meeting between industry players & officials