Recommended Dietary/Daily Allowances: Basic Concept Humans need a wide range of nutrients to lead a healthy and active life. The amount of each nutrient needed for an individual depends on age, body weight, physical activity, physiological state (pregnancy, lactation) etc....
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Introduction to Nutrition: Nutrition is a science. Compared with some other sciences, such as chemistry, that have been studied for thousands of years, nutrition is a young science. Many nutritional facts revolve around nutrients, such as carbohydrates. Nutrients are the...
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Food Safety Culture Excellence: Food safety is not just a technical problem, it also has a major behavioural component, as the culture of an organisation reflects what employees really think, how they feel, and ultimately how they act. It is...
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Food Irradiation: What You Need to Know? Irradiation does not make foods radioactive, compromise nutritional quality, or noticeably change the taste, texture, or appearance of food. In fact, any changes made by irradiation are so minimal that it is not...
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Introduction: India has a rich tradition of sweets with a variety of taste, texture and ingredients. Traditional milk-based sweets are generally prepared from khoya, chhena, sugar and other ingredients such as maida, flavours and colours e.g. peda, burfi, milk cake,...
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Introduction: India is known world over as “The Home of Spices.” It is a leader in the global spice market and caters to around 48 percent of the demand for spices across the world. Spices are consumed in various forms...
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A Global Standard For Sustainable Palm Oil: To ensure the credibility of palm oil sustainability claims, all RSPO members that take legal ownership and produce or handle RSPO-certified sustainable oil palm products need to be RSPO certified. At the heart...
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Ensuring Safety of Pulses & Besan: Pulses form a major portion of the Indian diet. They are the main source of protein in case of vegetarian diet. However, they are adulterated intentionally or unintentionally. Adulterants such as stones and pebbles...
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Overview: The Global Standard for Storage and Distribution reflects best practice and facilitate a process of continual improvement through well-designed risk-based product safety management systems. It ensures the quality and safety of products during their storage and distribution throughout the...
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Overview: The Global Standard for Agents and Brokers was first published in 2014 and was developed to provide a framework to manage product safety, quality and legality for businesses in the food and food packaging industries. Agents and Brokers (non-manufacturing...
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