The label already tells you the truth — it just doesn't make it easy. These guides teach the two minutes of reading that change what lands in your basket.
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How to read an Indian food label
Ingredient order, the per-serving trick, sugar's fifty names, sodium vs salt — eight rules that decode any pack in the aisle.
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Nutrients, one by one
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Sugar
The number worth reading in teaspoons
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Sodium & salt
The label says sodium. You eat salt. They are not the same number.
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Saturated & trans fat
The fat split matters more than the fat total
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Protein
The nutrient most Indian diets run short on
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Fibre
What refining removes, and marketing re-sells
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Caffeine
Regulated in India by the litre — worth knowing by the can
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10 label myths, checked
Brown bread, "no added sugar", millet biscuits, the green dot…