News India Live, Digital Desk: In this busy life, we fulfill a large part of our diet from ‘packaged’ items. But do you know that the small colored square marks made at the bottom or back of the packet are not a design, but food safety What are the vital signs? FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) According to the rules, these coding tell you how safe what you are eating is for your body.
On the lines of many countries, now in India too, color coding is being used to indicate the amount of salt, sugar and fat in food items:
| Color | Meaning | Suggestion (Action) |
|---|---|---|
| Red | Amount of fat, sugar or salt in it Too much Is. | Eat it very little or only occasionally. |
| Orange/Yellow | Amount of nutrients in it Average Is. | It can be eaten in limited quantities. |
| Green | it’s for health safe and healthy There is option. | You can include it in your regular diet. |
For decades we have been seeing green and brown circles, but now they have been changed to make identification easier:
Green Square: it Vegetarian There is a sign of food.
Brown Triangle: Earlier it was round, but now ‘brown triangle’ is used for non-vegetarian food so that even visually impaired people can understand the difference by touch.
Blue Symbol: it often milk or dairy products Is used for.
In the ingredients list on the back of the packet, E621 Or E102 Like you might have seen the code.
These are international coding systems that represent food colors, preservatives, and flavor enhancers.
Tip: If there are too many ‘E’ codes on a packet, then understand that the food is ultra-processed.
Often small blocks of blue, red, yellow and black are drawn on the folds of packets.
Truth: It’s not the quality of the food, but printing quality Let us tell. These are called ‘printers color blocks’. These ensure that the packets are printed in the correct colors.
Food safety experts believe that merely looking at the ‘expiry date’ is not enough. To you ‘Nutritional Information’ One should go through the table to see how many calories and how much ‘trans fat’ is there per 100 grams. If the amount of trans fat is high, it can be dangerous for your heart.
