Ministry of Health will soon launch a mobile app giving information about nutritional value of various Indian food items, said T Longvah, Director of National Institute of Nutrition, here today.
The app is being developed using the data from Indian Food Composition Tables-2017, released recently by the Union Health Minister J P Nadda.
“All consumers have to do is to input the name of the food item and the quantity. The app will tell what would be the calorific value. If a person has had idli, the app will tell how many calories have been consumed.
The app will be ready in about three months,” Longvah said here.
IFCT-2017 report, he said, provides nutritional information about 151 food components of 528 key foods.