India’s top packaged goods company Hindustan Unilever Ltd(HUL), on Wednesday committed to reducing food wastage and pledged to improved nutritional content of its packaged foods in line with the company’s parent, Unilever’s, Future Foods initiative, that promises to aid consumer transition towards healthier diets and limit environmental impact of the food chain. Under its newly set targets for its foods and refreshment business worldwide, Unilever said it plans to double the number of products delivering positive nutrition defined as products containing impactful amounts of vegetables, fruits, proteins, or micronutrients like vitamins, zinc, iron and iodine by 2025. Apart from that, it will continue to slash calorie, salt and sugar levels across all products. 85% of Unilever’s Foods portfolio will support a diet providing a maximum of 5g of salt intake a day by 2022. In packaged ice cream, 95% of products will contain no more than 22g of total sugar and 250 Kcal per serving by 2025, the company said as it set out future goals for its foods business.
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