World food day is celebrated on 16th October every year across the globe. It’s celebrated annually in the honour of the inaugural date of the Food and Agricultural organisation that was launched by the United Nations in 1945. World food day is also celebrated by other organisations which are related to food security like International fund for Agricultural Development, the World Food Program, and others.

Why World food Day is celebrated ?

The primary reason behind the origination and celebration of World Food day is to secure and facilitate the food security over the world, most importantly during the period of crisis. The celebration of the World Food day all over the world helps in increasing understanding of the critical requirement for efficacious food and agriculture policies to be executed by Governments of different nations to assure there is adequate food available for everybody worldwide.

World Food Day: Millennials want healthy food

People are becoming more conscious of their health in today’s era and the same thing is changing the food habits of the young people. They are more aware of the ongoing health trends around the world and are more sensitive to body perceptions. While they are changing their food habits out of consciousness, their diet is unconsciously influenced by changing trends in the fitness industry. Today, the food habits of young people are more adventurous and they do not feel shy to try out different cuisines on the domestic as well as international levels. While they experiment with different cuisines, they do care of a healthy diet plan.

What is a healthy diet?

Healthy diet includes food rich in nutrients like vitamins, minerals, fibre. These foods nourish our bodies by fulfilling those requirements that keep you healthy. Include foods that are rich in nutrients:

• fruits and vegetables

• whole grains like oats, brown bread and brown rice

• nuts and seeds

• Beans

• Low fat milk and other dairy products like yogurt, cheese or other substitutes

• Eggs, seafood, lean meats

Food Processing Industry: Sunrise Sector

The food processing industry of India is a sunrise sector that has gained importance in recent years. The adequate availability of raw materials and changing lifestyle

lifestyle along with mitigation in policies has given necessary platform for the growth of the industry. The industry is a connector between agriculture and industrial segments of the industry and supporting this link is of utmost importance because it will help in improving the greater value of the current agriculture production; ensuring profits to the farmers and creating fair demands of Indian Agricultural products worldwide.The food industry is one of the most critical and important part of the economy, with food being 30% of the consumers basket. The food processing sector provides exciting business opportunities for domestic as well as international competitors.

Food Adulteration

Food adulteration is the process where quality of food is lowered by addition of poor quality, inferior or harmful or unnecessary substances to foods. This act of spoiling destroying the nature and quality of food products is known as food adulteration. It is one of the serious challenges in the society. Despite of several measures taken to prevent adulteration, the problem is still a big challenge for the country.

Rumour About Plastic Rice & Eggs

Plastic eggs and plastic eggs are simply rumours and hoax created by people to create fear in people’s mind. There are messages circulated on social media about such fake products available in Indian markets. This is also considered that the rumour created by some organic or special food lobby to put their products in market. There is a possibility if this kind of hoax are created by some anti-national elements to create confusion in country and thereby putting blame on the government on importing food products from outside. Whatever the motive of such rumours, there is no truth in them.