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New 20000 crore market just opened up

Nestlé’s baby food brands including Cerelac and Nido added sugar in the form of sucrose, in lower and lower-middle income countries including India — but not in the products sold in Europe or UK, according to a report by Swiss investigative organisation Public Eye and International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN). The research was conducted at a lab in Belgium, and examined Nestlé’s baby food products from Asia, and Africa branded as Cerelac, Nido, Mucilon and Dancow. These contained an average of 3 grams per serving, and in some cases up to 6 grams. Similar products tested in the European markets showed no added sugar. A Nestlé India spokesperson has attested that the company has reduced the sugar content in the baby product portfolio by 30% over the past five years, NDTV reported. In 2022, the sales on these products exceeded Rs.20,000 crore in India alone. Nestlé has been under the scanner in the past for similar violations in several African countries. Reports from the 1970s raised the alarms on their unethical marketing practices in an effort to push artificial feeding over breastfeeding.

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BiryaniEnthu

Stealth

5 months ago

Don't know why I'm so pissed with these news. Kinda knew it, but they have ruined generations. Most of Indians turning out diabetic, obese and heart attack prone may not just be "lacking exercise". The food has been laced with unhealthy sugars when we didn't even know they were bad for us. And so passed with government. Europe has such tough food laws, even US. But India, we are just numbers. If I die, there will be 50 to replace me, or even more Fckin pissed!!
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Qwerty2398

Stealth

5 months ago

who is to be blamed? all those Bureaucrats who are first in line to claim government benefits and collect bribes. At least the Modi government should use this as an opportunity to clean up the beauracracy. A few people must be punished.
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DataLake

TCS

5 months ago

Modi government has Ambani and adani as their father's whom they have to serve. They can just launch their own brand with much worse quality
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Hmmmmyeah

Startup

5 months ago

Nestle is one of the most morals less evil company that they even have children and monkeys as slaves to work for them including extreme exploitation. No wonder it supports 8srael and remains in BDS list
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Qwerty2398

Stealth

5 months ago

white men especially the EU guys had nothing but contempt towards asians and africans.
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CalmQuarter9

NaamMeKyaRkhaHai

5 months ago

RANT:- Indians get worst quality in air, water, food or any other basic goods or services, because we dont know how to ask for it, how to appreciate it. We will be happy with Ram temple and being better than Pakistan for a long time to come.
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FreshDew5

Oracle

5 months ago

>denigrate own culture >cry about own race having pathetic standards
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CalmQuarter9

NaamMeKyaRkhaHai

5 months ago

Pathetic standards of air, water, food, medicine, road, education, jobs, justified in the name of culture.
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WhoKnowsMyFate

Razorpay

5 months ago

Idk but can we protest or file a case against food companies and form a Central Dept or Lab and with Stringent food rules. Because I have seen this all senseless things happen in India only. Also to order companies to take bad products away from the market. It should be moral duty of companies to provide good consumables.
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StickyGooey

Design Studio

5 months ago

Also saw a post comparing 4% cocoa in kitkat India versus 30% cocoa in kitkat Australia. We get just the worst quality ingredients all riund
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PositiveSoul

Infosys

5 months ago

Wtff!!!!!!!!
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Bumpy_Stock

Stealth

5 months ago

Checkout Foodpharmer on IG. Explains what food ingredients are peddled in the name of "health" n "immunity"
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vesuvius

Razorpay

5 months ago

Why is Nestle at fault? Would they not do the same in US EU if laws aren't stringent there? It's our regulator FSSAI that is to be blamed. Nestle is a legal profit making enterprise and will operate with that remit to makimize shareholder wealth.
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sickstomach

PayU

5 months ago

Aree Maa chudi pari h FSSAI ki to…
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JimCramer

Stealth

5 months ago

Apparently Nestle also lobbied in USA against bill for extended maternity leaves and removed the natural mothers milk from competing against its baby formula
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StickyGooey

Design Studio

5 months ago

Pure evil
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Hmmmmyeah

Startup

5 months ago

They did multi year or even multi decade propaganda there to replace it with mother's milk. And that their cereal is better.
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samosa

Stealth

5 months ago

all food companies are evil
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Rhombus

CARS24

5 months ago

Where are Indian Startups with bare minimum to sugar less products? Time to launch 🚀
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WordyCool

Microsoft

5 months ago

There are brands like early foods, tots and mom's which use clean ingredients. I am personally very happy with early foods!
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Rhombus

CARS24

5 months ago

Then time to upscale
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MightyLazyGeekStar

Stealth

5 months ago

Shows how much they value our lives. We are just cheap labour for their external markets.
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Eziof

Axis Bank

5 months ago

The better question here should be about the parents feeding their kids packed stuff.. Anything that has a shelf life will reduce your life .period.
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random_bitcoin

PhonePe

5 months ago

Entire food industry has horror stories. We know only 1%
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MicahBell

Startup

5 months ago

For anyone calling Indian consumers "difficult", now is a good time to eat their words, sans the sugar. It seems we've been used to sub-par products and services for generations. But don't worry, they'll contract Ogilvy to write a cute ad campaign and people will wet themselves and it'll be back to normal.
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DarlesChickens

Razorpay

5 months ago

India's D2C Brands need to capture FMCG Space. Enough of EU and US companies giving shit to us. They think of India as a big country with fools who ll have anything they throw at us.
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Succkssfull

Wipro

5 months ago

This is so f***ing wrong on several levels. Morally, ethically, legally Wtf is wrong with people ??
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LongChick17

Razorpay

5 months ago

Nestle has special license for baby foods. No other player can enter I think.
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Momo_chutney

Stealth

5 months ago

Dadi ke nuske is the best, but then aj kal ki dadiya are turning into Cerelac Wali dadi
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Sulphur

Oracle

5 months ago

Everything we get in India is subpar products. I was using Head and shoulders shampoo in Singapore. It was so amazing. The same we get in India is shit. Government should start looking at all the products. One of the reasons we have subpar products in India is Bribe. People are not afraid to give bribes and officers are not afraid to receive bribes.
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Capacitor

BYJU'S

5 months ago

Nothing changes in the market or to Nestle. Just responding to the post heading. With such a bad news and expose, I was expecting Nestle India to bleed, but it's down by just 1%. When the mkt is up by 0.6%. So, no one is going to take the 20k cr market from Nestle. Yes, some real good brands can increase their sales.
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FlakyPlier68

Oracle

5 months ago

Why do you need a research for it? Wasn't it clearly mentioned in the content label behind the pack
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