In a revelation that should serve as a wakeup call for Indian authorities, a study has flagged that a significant majority of menus on popular online food delivery platforms fails to provide comprehensive nutritional labeling, raising concerns about consumers’ ability to make informed and healthy choices.
After investigating menu items on major online food delivery outlets and apps, the researchers from the University of Sydney noted that as most advertised items were missing nutritional information in online food delivery menus, the consumers were not able to make healthy choices.
They found that less than 6 per cent of menus of food outlets on online food delivery apps like UberEats, Menulog and Deliveroo had complete nutritional labelling. A total of 482 menus from UberEats, Menulog and Deliveroo were reviewed by the researchers in the study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition.
“There are multiple studies that show menu labelling having real-world impact that consumers who were provided with nutritional information selected meals with significantly lower energy content,” said lead study author Sisi Jia.
