The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has revealed that atleast&nbsp;10 states in India are unequipped to ensure food safety. Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam and Chattisgarh&nbsp;are among the worst performers when it comes to food safety. The lack of proper food testing laboratories and insufficient staff are the major reasons for the low food safety standards. On the other hand, states like Kerala, Uttar&nbsp;Pradesh&nbsp;and Delhi have seen an improvement in this regard.&nbsp;

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has revealed that atleast 10 states in India are unequipped to ensure food safety. Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam and Chattisgarh are among the worst performers when it comes to food safety. The lack of proper food testing laboratories and insufficient staff are the major reasons for the low food safety standards. On the other hand, states like Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi have seen an improvement in this regard.

A favourite of writers and creatives, the iconic Indian Coffee House in Kolkata's&nbsp;College Street reopened on Thursday, 103 days after shutting down due to the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;The eatery will be open from 11 am to 6 pm every day excepting Sundays. In the pre-COVID era, the Coffee House usually operated between 9 am and 9 pm.
To ensure social distancing, fewer than normal customers will be allowed on the two floors of the heritage eatery, which has been frequented by renowned poets, intellectuals and artists including the likes of Satyajit Ray and Amartya Sen&nbsp;among others.&nbsp;

The Karnataka&nbsp;government has ordered all facilities treating Covid-19 patients to provide a nutritious diet to all infected persons. The new diet plan is issued in an effort to boost the immunity of virus patients under treatment. As per the diet, breakfast will be served at 7 am and can be dishes like rava&nbsp;idli, pongal, set dosa, or&nbsp;bisi&nbsp;beli bath. After breakfast, patients should get a serving of seasonal fresh fruit followed by lunch at 1 pm. The lunch menu will comprise of&nbsp;roti, chapati, palya, rice, dal, egg and curd. At 5 pm, patients will get&nbsp;one banana and three cookies, two protein cookies, two dates and a mango bar for vitamin C. The dinner, served at 7 pm is almost the same as lunch followed by a glass of flavoured milk at 9 pm.&nbsp;

As the number of Covid-19 cases continues to grow, experts recommend that we must wash and disinfect everything properly before using it. Since food is a major part of that, the&nbsp;Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has released its own guidelines on how to clean fruits and vegetables.&nbsp;
FSSAI&nbsp;suggests keeping the produce bought from vendors in the packet itself isolated for some time.&nbsp;
Wash them thoroughly with lukewarm water or put a drop of 50ppm chlorine in warm water and dip them in it. Clean the produce with potable or drinking water.
The food body recommends against using disinfectants, wipes or soap on fresh produce. However, in an earlier post FSSAI&nbsp;said that&nbsp;in case of food packages, you can disinfect by wiping them with an alcohol-based solution or soap and clean water.

The high-fixed-cost, metro-centric retail sector will face a major blow due to the Covid-19 pandemic, finds a new report by&nbsp;Ambit Capital. Low credit availability, job losses, pay cuts and changing consumer behaviours will hit even the lower&nbsp;discretionary category. The shift towards working from home will have the highest impact on apparel, quick service&nbsp;restaurants&nbsp;(QSR) and footwear brands, the report said. Social distance restrictions, limited footfalls will gradually affect supermarkets and cinema halls when they reopen as well.&nbsp;Adding to this pain&nbsp;is the fact that the 10 cities accounting for 50 per cent of revenues are slowest to recover.&nbsp;

An Israel-based startup,&nbsp;Redefine Meat is using&nbsp;high-tech printers to produce plant-based steaks and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The company will begin testing its &ldquo;Alt-Steak&rdquo; at high-end restaurants this year before industrial production of its 3D printers begins in 2021. Initially, the printers will be able to produce almost 20 kilos per hour at a much lower cost than real meat. Fat, blood and muscle of plants are the three main ingredients that go into constructing the final print.&nbsp;

David Beckham's&nbsp;Inter Miami who play in Major League soccer left for Florida to take part in MLS&nbsp;is Back tournament as they got a rousing send-off from the fans. The team which is in its debut season held a practice session at their home ground and then took the road to Florida. More than a bunch of fans turned up and gave the new team a very warm farewell as they left for the bio-secure environment&nbsp;to play the tournament.&nbsp;Inter Miami kick-off the tournament on Thursday when they take on Orlando City at the Disney World.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Luxury hospitality group Oberoi&nbsp;Hotels is launching its own food application for customers. The Kolkata-headquartered&nbsp;group owns 23 properties in India under the two brand names of Oberoi&nbsp;and Trident. Rival Taj&nbsp;group of hotels, run by Tata&nbsp;Group has also announced the launch of its own app Qmin that will be out on July 25. The app will deliver food from eight premium restaurants in&nbsp;Taj&nbsp;hotels. Marriott has also started a food delivery service called 'Marriott on Wheels.'&nbsp;Competitive hotel giants ITC, Hyatt and Accor&nbsp;have all partnered with food delivery apps like Zomato and Swiggy&nbsp;to boost catering business as the travel industry remains shut.&nbsp;

Good news for Starbucks fans in India! Tata Starbucks has announced that it is planning to reopen dine-in services in seven cities across India. Select outlets of the coffee giant in Delhi,&nbsp;Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara&nbsp;will reopen at 50 per cent seating capacity.&nbsp;
Customers, delivery partners and staff will all have to comply with mandatory temperature checks and facial coverings as part of the new safety health measures. There will be a designated waiting area and social distance markers across the store to avoid overcrowding.&nbsp;

Borrowing a page from the European textbook, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation may allow restaurants to reopen in the open-air format, according to an Economic Times report. Following social distancing norms at restaurants and eateries which normally run at jam-packed&nbsp;capacity is eating away at revenues with many businesses unable to sustain for much longer. The SDMC&nbsp;has around 2,000 restaurants that fall under its jurisdiction and many of them may be happy to offer dining in open spaces. The report states that eateries may even play light music but the open space must be private-owned and no public encroachment will be permissible. To prevent fire accidents, cooking outdoors as barbecues will also not be allowed.&nbsp;

Food delivery platform Zomato&nbsp;has renamed its premium service Zomato&nbsp;Gold to Zomato&nbsp;Pro with new features. The aggregator&nbsp;has signed up 50 per cent more restaurants to be a part of the membership along with benefits like priority delivery and moneyback guarantee. All existing members of Zomato&nbsp;Gold, available across 10 countries, will automatically be upgraded to the Pro membership. In a blog&nbsp;post, Zomato&nbsp;claimed that if you 'do not&nbsp;save 2 times the subscription fee of Zomato Pro within the subscription period, they will auto-refund your subscription fee at the end of the year.' The guarantee will be applicable to all existing Pro/Gold customers and new members.

Hotel chain Marriott International, which has witnessed a 90 per cent plunge in profits across its 123 properties due to the pandemic, plans to continue&nbsp;its growing it's delivery and takeaway business even after the lockdowns are eased. As the lockdown&nbsp;kept getting extending, Marriott expanded into home delivery of food under a new vertical 'Marriott on Wheels,' partnering with Zomato and Swiggy&nbsp;for the same.&nbsp;
Neeraj&nbsp;Govil, senior VP of Marriott South Asia says the experiment has paid off so far. They&nbsp;will continue to focus on this model to scale up revenue as&nbsp;don't see normalcy returning anytime soon.&nbsp;

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to put the country on a diet as part of a wider strategy to counter obesity, seen as a major risk factor in those impacted by coronavirus. 'The focus will be on getting the nation fitter because, as the coronavirus has shown, it will save lives,' a health department insider told The Sunday Times. The proposals include&nbsp;better access to programmes ranging from family exercise schemes and healthy eating to bariatric surgery, which includes the fitting of gastric bands.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the UK and US, more than 60 per cent of adults are overweight or obese, a UK doctor told PTI.&nbsp;

Tik&nbsp;Tok users seem to be full of food tricks. A user from Australia shared a life hack showing how she seasons sushi by using a nozzle leaving her viewers impressed.&nbsp;
Instead of seasoning the sushi from the top&nbsp;like most people, she squeezed the sauce inside the roll to coat the filling.&nbsp;
The demonstration has been viewed 2.6 million times on the platform.&nbsp;

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow&nbsp;(IIM-L) have found that nearly 42 per cent of consumers&nbsp;in India stocked up on chocolates in their homes during the lockdown period. The purchase was either to keep children happy or to curb dessert cravings. The team's other findings were that&nbsp;39 per cent consumers experimented with newer brands which were usually not in their purchase list during the first phase of lockdown. 53 per cent of the people surveyed said they spend their free time watching television, while only 24 per cent of respondents said they read books or followed the news during this time.&nbsp;

For the last seven weeks, the Guru Nanak Foundation of America Gurudwara&nbsp;in&nbsp;Silver Spring of Washington Metropolitan Area has been distributing packets of food to people who need it. The community has set up a 'langar'&nbsp;at a drive-through&nbsp;food distribution zone and distribute non-perishable food every Sunday. The food packets are prepared in a systematic manner one day in advance, which include fruit cans, cakes, cookies and fresh fruits. They have already distributed over 2,100 packages and almost 300 families line up in their cars every Sunday.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Michelin star chef and restaurateur Vikas&nbsp;Khanna&nbsp;has been running massive food distribution drives amid the pandemic. In a recent interview, a BBC&nbsp;anchor enquired whether Khanna's&nbsp;'sense of hunger' came from his upbringing in India. The US-based&nbsp;Indian chef's reply has gone viral on Twitter. Khanna&nbsp;told the news anchor that he was from Amritsar, where community kitchens can feed the entire city, which is why his sense of hunger is not from India but actually his beginnings&nbsp;in New York. He spoke about his struggle of starting out as youngster in the city of New York post the 9/11 period when getting jobs as a brown person was especially challenging.&nbsp;

The National Restaurant Association of India&nbsp;(NRAI) has released Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guidelines&nbsp;for restaurants to follow in the pandemic era.&nbsp;
The body has suggested a 2-metre gap between tables, seating people with their back towards each other or Plexiglass&nbsp;dividers of 2 metres depending on the availability of space and structure of the eatery. The temperature&nbsp;of all air conditioners should be set between 24-30 degrees and cross ventilation should be ensured.&nbsp;
NRAI&nbsp;has suggested the appointment of a Health Ambassador from within&nbsp;the restaurant's team who can help ensure and lead preventative safety measures.&nbsp;
The SOP covers all former guidelines by the WHO, FSSAI&nbsp;and Health Ministry.&nbsp;

A new report by Facebook&nbsp;India and the Boston Consulting Group analysing consumer behaviour says that there positive rise in the demand for fresh food while spending on cosmetics is on a downward spiral.&nbsp;
According to the report, 44 per cent of people online intend to increase spending on fresh food, 52 per cent on staples and 47 per cent on packaged food in the next six months. Ideas like 'remote living', 'do it yourself', 'super hygiene and clean living' also witnessed&nbsp;a new high. Viewing of cooking recipe video increases 2.7 times along with a 100 per cent spike in 'how-to' clips.

Alfresco dining and entertainment to become the new normal for England as it plans to reopen on July&nbsp;4. A new bill that is supposed to be fast-tracked&nbsp;in time for the&nbsp;lockdown's end England aims to loosen restrictions on drinking, eating and shopping outdoors. In a bid to promote social distancing without harming local business, the authorities will turn streets into outdoor markets, let pubs use the parking areas like beer gardens. The legislation will basically allow outdoor trading without the need for any prior permission to boost commerce and help struggling businesses.&nbsp;

New research comparing Indian diet across various income groups to the acclaimed EAT-Lancet diet found that Indians are not getting enough&nbsp;proteins, fruits and vegetables. The International Food Policy Research Institute's findings say that Indians are overeating&nbsp;cereals, which make up 47% of our diet and the average Indian's total calorie intake is around 2,200 kcals per person per day, 12 per cent lower than the EAT-Lancet reference diet's recommendation. However, the authors say even at low-calorie intake, obesity is on the rise which could be due to a sedentary lifestyle.
The EAT-Lancet diet recommends primary consumption of&nbsp;plant-based foods and little to no processed meat and starchy vegetables. The average Indian's fruit consumption is 40 per cent lower than Lancet recommendations, which could due to the cost factor. But the report added that&nbsp;even the richest households in the study do not consume enough protein-rich foods, fruits, and vegetables.&nbsp;

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