The 'Eat Right India' movement, a flagship program of FSSAI aims to ensure health and well-being of people through its safe food, healthy and sustainable diets by a coordinated multi-sectoral approach. Given that food habits are formed early in life and difficult to change thereafter; the focus of 'Eat Right School' program is on young people. A school is an obvious place where healthy eating habits may form. The Eat Right School program of FSSAI uses food as a pedagogical tool to bring in a sustainable change in the dietary habits of children. Young people are agents of change and their potential to influence entire families could be leveraged to change the way people eat.
The 'Eat Right Creativity Challenge' (ERCC) phase one was planned as a part of celebrations of the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday from 14th Nov'18 - 17th Jan'19 to inculcate healthy eating habits through the creativity of an individual. Over 75100 students participated through 3621 schools in Phase 1, making it a huge success.
The Second Eat Right Creativity Challenge aims to tap the creative talent of students and enable them to inculcate healthy dietary habits starting young. The competition aims to encourage schools to create an environment of healthy and safe food to engage, excite and enable students to inculcate habits on food and nutrition. The competition will be from 16th Oct - 31st Dec 2020. All schools affiliated to recognized education boards are eligible for participation.
Eat Right Poster Competition and Eat Right Photography Competition.
‘Eat Right’ Quiz is an initiative by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to create awareness among people across the country regarding food safety, nutrition, healthy eating habits and sustainable food practices. This activity aims to engage, excite and enable citizens to improve their food habits and consequently their health and wellbeing through an interactive learning process.
The Eat Right Quiz contains multiple choice questions based on the three themes of the ‘Eat Right India’ movement launched by FSSAI, namely ‘Eat Safe’, ‘Eat Healthy’ and ‘Eat Sustainable’. These questions are designed to motivate citizens to think and learn about various matters related to food such as diseases resulting from unsafe and unhealthy diets, food adulteration, safe food practices, good personal and surrounding hygiene and sanitary practices, balanced diet, fortified foods, healthy eating habits, managing food waste and environment-friendly food practices. Through this fun and interactive quiz, participants would have the opportunity to not only test their knowledge about food and win attractive prizes but also learn about the latest issues around food.
The overall objective of the Eat Right Quiz is to bring about social and behavioural change among citizens to adopt healthy eating habits through the MyGov platform.
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