The Bournvita controversy and the debate over food labels | In Focus podcast
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Boonvita: A Healthy Packaged Food?
The recent controversy over Boonvita and whether or not it contains too much sugar to be healthy has ignited discussions about how healthy our packaged food really is. The most unhealthy foods are therefore the ultra-processed foods which typically have high fats or salt or sugars. So these are also called junk food in some sense. These give rise to overweight and obesity which themselves are forerunners of non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, strokes and so on.
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