Nestle admits its food portfolio unhealthy: Why front of pack labelling is important

The Swiss multinational food and beverage multinational has admitted some of its products will never be healthy no matter how much it …

Pesticides in soft drinks: media war

With their reputation at stake, the soft drinks industry started a major public relations offence. After decades of some of the most glamorous …

India second-biggest market for sugary beverages: Lancet report

Double malnutrition on the rise in India due to shift to ultra-processed foods, private sector push

South Africa to impose tax on sugary drinks from April 2018

South African parliament has passed a tax bill on carbonated drinks, which are now the third most commonly consumed beverage among very young …

FSSAI expert group recommendations on junk food regulation add nothing new

Its report asks for additional tax on junk food and ban on advertising such foods on children's shows but has no plan for implementation

Soft drink companies investing heavily in developing countries, says report

Multinationals have taken to low and medium income countries as sales slowdown in North America and Europe

Tax on sugar-sweetened drinks in Mexico associated with drop in sales, says study

Levying higher taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, alcohol and gambling is a global practice

How true is Horlicks ad hype on boiled milk?

Experts say advertisement is misleading

Tax sugar-sweetened beverages to reduce obesity and diabetes, says study

On an average, diabetes is responsible for two per cent of total deaths in India

Prominent Indian tea brands contain pesticides: Greenpeace

Study finds 67 per cent of tested samples of packed tea leaves contained banned pesticide DDT; some samples had acutely poisonous monocrotophos

Night out with science

I drink cola, therefore I am?

Soft drink ban proposed

Maharashtra FDA recommends

Victory over Coke

Better shape up

Bottlers agree to take off colas from schools

Wine whine

Useful but expensive

Against slavery of a new kind

Finally

Final product norms on soft drinks as a distinct category

Bull fighting

Rich, suddenly

Ladakh's people get key to seabuckthorn 'goldmine'

Bytes

Fizzically unfit

Fixing of norms for pesticides in soft drinks delayed further

Cola Anonymous?

Too crooked

Soft drink industry snatches another lifeline