I wonder if food manufacturers in India take nutrition labels seriously. Does Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSAAI) validate the authenticity of the nutrition info of a product before they offer a license to the manufacturer? I’ve seen even big brands skipping saturated fat, sugar and salt content.
This semi-cooked parota product has specified all nutrition component values in mg except sugar which is in grams - Parota - Ammamma's easy2cook - 400 g
It appears to be a typo but should such oversight be excused? Can we trust the values on the nutrition labels?
Regarding the final question you ask, I can only say that the food industry is always lying and obfuscating, not only in India, but also here in Germany. Even though a lot of things are regulated by law, corporations use every loophole to provide misleading and false information.
We have an issue on the topic of adding support for the FSAAI traceability codes:
You’d have to research what the FSAAI number means in terms of checks.
As Bartolomeu mentions, there’s the possibility of fraud (eg: false declaration) but it is rather low due to legal implications.
Producers prefer to write the truth, but in fine print, or obfuscated, rather than risk a lawsuit
