Regulatory hurdles & stringent guidelines present challenges for namkeen

Namkeen products means savoury, salty, and spicy traditional Indian snack foods that are usually made from ingredients like gram flour (besan), lentils, rice, corn, potatoes and spices. They are a broad category of ready-to-eat snacks that are crunchy, flavoured, and consumed with tea/coffee, as a side dish, or even as a stand-alone snack. Namkeen – Indian savoury snack foods, as opposed to sweets (mithai). Examples of Namkeen products are as follows: Sev (thin fried noodles made of gram flour); Bhujia (spiced gram flour strands, like Bikaneri Bhujia); Mixtures/Chivda (a mix of fried lentils, nuts, spices, puffed rice); Farsan (Gujarati snacks like gathiya, dhokla, khandvi – some are fried, some steamed); Aloo Bhujia (potato and gram flour fried strands); Spiced Nuts/Peanuts; Murukku / Chakli (South Indian spiral fried snack). Read More