80 percent of children do not get nutritious food: UNICEF

New Delhi, November 1, 2019, Friday

According to a UNICEF report, 80% of children in India do not get nutritious food. Only ten percent of children can eat fruits and eggs daily. Adolescents have no nutrients such as vitamin A, vitamin B twill and vitamin D as well as iron and folate.

This report from UNICEF is based on a recently published Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey. UNICEF's report was titled 'Adolescent: Diet and Nutrition: Growing Well in a Changing World'.

The report claimed that more than 80% of children in India do not get nutritious food. Only ten percent of children regularly eat fruits and eggs daily. More than 25 percent of teenagers do not eat green vegetables once a week.

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According to the report, nutritional intake can be taken more due to increase in income, but instead, Indian teenagers are eating more junk food, fried recipes and sweeteners.

The effect of anemia was also seen in 19 percent of adolescents and 40 percent of adolescents.