Samosa vs Health: Will calorie warnings stop India’s junk food obsession?

India Today

In a first-of-its-kind move, the Health Ministry is rolling out visual health warnings for high-fat and high-sugar foods like samosas and jalebis, starting with AIIMS Nagpur.

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00:00Samosa will be closed, then what will it be?

00:02It's not the right health of the first time.

00:04Because it's sokeen, we come from Bihar.

00:07There's a bit of a different amount of samosa.

00:10Why don't I leave the samosa?

00:12I'll eat it.

00:13One samosa is equal to 300 calories.

00:16Jalebi is 150 and vada pao is nearly 290.

00:20And don't even get us started on chai biscuits and pakodas.

00:23What do you want to do?

00:25Samosa.

00:26How much do you eat in the morning?

00:27It's good, you can eat 4-5 calories.

00:29There's a lot of diabetes.

00:31It's good for us.

00:32You don't have to worry about it?

00:34I'm learning about it.

00:35What are you eating?

00:36Pakodas.

00:37300 calories.

00:39Are you learning about it?

00:41No, I'm looking at it too.

00:43Look, a man now says that these desi favourites deserve secret-style health warnings.

00:49Diabetes, hypertension, etc.

00:52That's why they're eating.

00:53So you're buying it.

00:55So what do you say about it?

00:57Look, there's a lot of cigarettes on the cigarette.

01:01Don't drink it.

01:02But people drink it.

01:04Same applies to I think samosas also, right?

01:06If I find it good, tasty, everything goes out of the window.

01:10Yup, oil and sugar are the new villains in town.

01:13But are the junk food lovers really ready to give them up?

01:16Let's find out.

01:17No comments.

01:18Because eating is shocking in India.

01:21So just one disclaimer on our report is not going to change anything.

01:24The Ministry of Health has directed all central government institutions to display big, bold oil and sugar bolts in cafeterias and public spaces.

01:32The government should not go into too much deep into it like asking us what we should eat or not.

01:37We know like it's deep-fried.

01:38The food is all in my thought process and all in my mind.

01:43Put ban on like they should put calories sign in dominoes.

01:46I don't know if they are going to put it.

01:47If they are going to put it.

01:48A week in a week, it will not have much health effects.

01:51Too many pakoras, too much sugar and boom.

01:54Obesity, diabetes and heart disease on the rise.

01:57It's part of a fight against a growing crisis with nearly 449 million Indians expected to be overweight or obese by 2050.

02:05How many people eat jellybee every day?

02:08Anyway, you are eating mangoes, right?

02:10That has sugar as well.

02:11I exercise.

02:12Everything is good.

02:13No, your favourite snacks aren't getting banned.

02:15But now, before you bite into that lip-smacking treat, the government just wants to whisper,

02:20Are you sure?

02:21It's wrong.

02:22We know it's wrong.

02:23We do it again.

02:24We do it again.

02:25The Punjabi are also good.

02:26We are worried about the samosas.

02:27We are worried about the diseases in our lives.

02:30If we understand this, we will ignore it.

02:32We will try it again.

02:33We will try it again.

02:34We will try it again.

02:35We will try it again.

02:36We will try it again.

02:37What do you think?

02:38It's good.

02:39We will try it again.

02:40We will try it again.

02:41We will try it again.

02:42What do you say, sir?

02:43We will try it again.

02:44You will try it again.

02:45You will try it again.

02:46This is normal.

02:47It's okay.

02:48Let them do their job.

02:49Let us also have our bite of samosas at the end of the day.

02:53Yes, please, sir.

02:54Thank you so much.

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