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Does India Need to Reinvent the Wheel on Junk Foods?

Anup Soans
By Anup Soans

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha in early August 2026, Minister of State for Health Prataprao Jadhav stated that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has not conducted any study to assess whether ultra-processed foods (UPFs) exhibit addiction-like behavioural characteristics comparable to tobacco products or other habit-forming substances. At the same time,…

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