🔆 Ultra-Processed Foods (UPF) 📍 What are Ultra-Processed Foods? 🍔 Foods with artificial ingredients, additives, and preservatives, often containing high sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats. 🛒 Examples include packaged snacks, instant noodles, and ready-to-eat meals. 📍 Health Impacts ⚠️ Low in essential nutrients, but linked to obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. 🔥 Contributes to the global health crisis due to high fat, sugar, and salt (HFSS) content. 📍 Initiatives to Reduce UPF Consumption ✅ FSSAI's Cap on Trans Fats: Limited to 2% in food from 2022. 📢 Regulations: 🏫 2018: Advertising accountability for food businesses. 🚫 2020: Ban on UPF ads near schools. 🍽 Campaigns: 🥗 Eat Right India: Promotes reduced salt, sugar, and saturated fats. ✂️ Aaj Se Thoda Kam: Encourages cutting down unhealthy consumption. 💰 Fat Tax: Introduced by Kerala to discourage junk food. #science_and_technology