Healthy and safe eating food practices are encouraged in India by the Eat Right India campaign, which was started by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The FSSAI’s program encourages Indians to have balanced diets based on nutrition science and as well as traditional knowledge, as lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes, and heart conditions are becoming prevalent so this blog gives you a strategie to live a healthier life (Eat Right India by FSSAI’s)

The Significance of Proper Diet

According to FSSAI, a healthy diet satisfies the mind, strengthens immunity, and feeds and nourishes the body. Making the correct choice is crucial because Indian cuisine offers both very healthy and less-than-ideal options. Eat Right India look after promoting consuming local ingredients, reduce processed food, and encourage sensible eating.

FSSAI’s Key Principles for Eating Right

The FSSAI has several principles under Eat Right India to promote healthy eating:

Choose Whole Foods: Chose whole food like whole grains, fresh vegetables, fruit instead of processed food, eat food those are rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals.

Reduce Sugar and Salt: The FSSAI recommends not to consume sugar and salt

Healthy Fats: Replace trans fats with healthier options like ghee (mustard oil, or nuts.

Eat Local and Seasonal: The FSSAI promotes seasonal fruits and vegetable like mangoes in summer or greens in winter for freshness and sustainability.

Balanced Plate: Follow the FSSAI’s My Plate for the Day model: half your plate with vegetables and fruits, and other half of protein, and whole grains.

Stay Hydrated: The FSSAI advises 9–10 glasses of water daily, supplemented by hydrating drinks like coconut water.

Include India super food in dailydiet

The FSSAI emphasizes the nutritional advantages of India's traditional superfoods:

Millets: Ragi, jowar, and bajra are gluten-free, fiber-rich, and heart-healthy.

Turmeric: FSSAI advised to include turmeric because of its anti-inflammatory qualities.

The FSSAI recommends Amla as superfood which is high in vitamin C that boosts immunity.

Ghee: helps with digestion and offers healthy fats.

Useful Advice for Proper Diet with FSSAI

Plan Meals: To ensure balanced nutrition and avoid unhealthy snack, prepare weekly menus by FSSAI's recommendations.

Read Food Labels: The FSSAI advises consumers to look the food labels to check added sugars, sodium, and trans fats

Cook at Home: FSSAI's advice to control ingredient and healthy cooked food try home-cooked meals.

Reduce Junk Food: avoid fried snacks and try foods like roasted makhana, fruit chat

Mindful Eating: To enhance digestion, the FSSAI recommends chewing slowly and avoiding distractions when eating.

Sample One-Day Meal Plan Inspired by the FSSAI

Breakfast: A paratha stuffed with vegetables or porridge of ragi with nuts and fruits, as per the FSSAI's guideline for a healthy diet.

A snack in mid-morning that will supplement the FSSAI's guidelines on healthy snacking would be roasted chana or lassi.

For lunch, following the FSSAI's My Plate model, there is brown rice, dal, vegetable curry, and cucumber raita.

The FSSAI suggests a green tea or sprouted moong chaat boiled egg as an evening snack.

Dinner will be roti, moli ka pratha and one cup of milk