India Food Stats

By understanding the typical shelf life of the groceries you purchase, you can better plan your purchases and how to store them. The Bullet Bar charts below display the minimum and maximum shelf life of various packaged perishables & groceries, based on my personal experience & data from the India database of Open Food Facts . Note that perishables have to be maintained according to the temperature & conditions mentioned on the package. Apps like Foodless allow you to track expiry dates & help prevent food wastage. Also see -  Food Loss & Food Waste

Based on the last 90 day average (as of 6-Dec-24), about 18 products are being added to the Open Food Facts India Database each day & ~540 in a month. Guess which Ingredients  are the most used among the 11K products (for which details have been added) - Sugar & Salt! On package labels in India, salt may sometimes be listed as "Iodised salt". All Images - OpenFoodFacts.org The Brands (among 2500+ in the database) with currently the highest number of products added are: Britannia Amul Parle  Cadbury  Haldiram's  Sunfeast  Dabur  Maggi  Nestle  Kellogg's  The top food categories (among 1713 categories compared to 71111 categories in the overall global database) are: Biscuits Snacks  Beverages  Breads  Peanut butters Potato crisps  Sweetened beverages  Instant noodles  Teas  Milks  Check the  Open Food Facts Dashboard for India  for a quick overview of the completeness and data qual...