RecordedFood Label Literacy Certification Course: Know What’s Really in Your Food
A packet can say “natural,” “high protein” or “no added sugar” and still leave you with questions about what is actually inside. This course teaches you how to read food labels with a more informed eye. Learn to interpret ingredient lists, recognise different forms of sugar, understand additives and preservatives, and make sense of nutritional and health claims on packaged foods commonly sold in India.
RecordedWhat you’ll actually learn
- Understand basics of food label and the role of FSSAI requirements in packaged food labelling.
- Interpret the list of ingredients by evaluating ingredient order, their percentages and how each ingredient is represented on packaging.
- Recognise added sugars and identify various names used for sugar in processed and packaged foods.
- Differentiate amongst various factors involving additives, colourants, thickeners, preservatives, flavours, and stabilising agents.
- Identify INS & E numbers and also understand how they actually help in identifying specific food additives.
- Analyse nutritional as well as health claims instead of being dependent on front of pack messaging alone.
- Incorporate your learning while comparing packaged snacks, beverages and everyday grocery products.

Who’s this for?
This course is particularly for nutritionists, fitness professionals, homemakers, health coaches, parents, wellness practitioners and in fact anyone who wants to make informed food choices. It is specifically useful for people who regularly buy processed and packaged foods but often find the list of ingredients and nutritional claims very confusing. No advanced nutrition knowledge is required at all, further making it a practical initial point for anyone who wants to understand what food packaging really communicates.
Why this course
is important
- Look far beyond the front of the pack: Marketing claims are specifically tailored to catch your attention but the list of ingredients offers additional information worth understanding.
- Identify what actually goes into everyday foods: Additives, flavours, sugar, and other ingredients can actually appear under names that are very unfamiliar to most shoppers.
- Make sense of confusing claims: Learn to analyse nutrition & health statement rather than treating each and every claim as a proof of a products benefits.
- Shop with confidence: Understanding labels makes it even easier to compare any similar products and decide which information matters to your requirements.
- Bring label literacy into everyday life: Utilise these skills while grocery shopping, further being beneficial in helping your clients in making informed choices and planning family meals.
Where it leads
Take your learning straight to the supermarket, your kitchen or your nutrition practice. Utilise your understanding of food labels for comparing packaged products, ask questions in regard to ingredients, and explain label information more concisely to others. For wellness and nutrition professionals, this course can complement the existing knowledge, while daily shoppers gain a very practical skill.

Topics
- Introduction to food labels & FSSAI mandates
- Decoding ingredients present in common packaged foods and beverages in India
- Discovering health and nutritional claims on the food labels
- How to make informed decisions by making sense of food labels
Accreditations
Things You’re Probably Wondering
It is a free, recorded course that teaches you to understand the list of ingredients, identify various forms of sugar, recognise food additives and analyse nutritional as well as health claims on packaged foods.










