In post-Bournvita controversy, Nestle responds to claims that sugar content is high in poor countries
Nestle’s added sugar products: Nestlé products have also come into controversy due to shocking reports of high sugar content. After this report was presented by the Foreign Child Welfare Investigation Committee, Nestle has also responded by presenting the facts. Recently, the Central Government has ordered to remove Bournvita from the healthy drinks category after investigating the controversy that this drink is not healthy. Now Nestle can take this report in context and investigate against it.
After this controversial report of Nestle, the stock has fallen by 5.40 percent today. At 12.10 pm it is trading at 2460 level, falling by 3.42 percent.
Nestle reduced the amount of sugar by 30 percent
Reacting to reports of high sugar (sugar) content in baby foods like Nestle’s Cerelac, Cyrils, Nestle India said it has reduced the added sugar content in its Cyril range for babies by 30 per cent over the last five years in developed countries. Is done. It believes in maintaining affordable quality of products for newborns, for which it gives priority to high quality products.
High sugar content in products sold in poor countries
A report by the Swiss Investigative Organization and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) found that Swiss food company Nestle sells milk and cereal products containing too much sugar and honey to newborns in poor countries. Whereas in countries like Europe and UK zero sugar mixed products are being sold. The committee has prepared this report by examining 115 products sold by Nestlé in the markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The amount of sugar in Cerelac sold in India is 3 grams.
Nestle’s Cerelac product sold in India has a sugar content of 3 grams. The best-selling product in the Philippines is 7.3 grams of sugar. An average of 4 grams of sugar has been found in Cerelac given to children aged six months to three years. Whereas the amount of sugar in the products sold in Europe is zero.
The company’s milk products and nutrition portfolio includes dairy whiteners, condensed milk, yogurt, maternal and infant formulas, baby food, health care nutrients.
