PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Nutr.
Sec. Nutrition and Sustainable Diets
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1643629
This article is part of the Research TopicFrom Production to Consumption: Reshaping Life Cycles Toward Sustainable Dietary Patterns and Food SystemsView all articles
Nutrition Literacy: A Key Factor in Public Health Improvement in India
Provisionally accepted
- 1Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Wardha, India
- 2Government Medical College and Hospital, Akola, Akola, India
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Nutrition literacy is the capacity to obtain, understand, and apply nutrition information. It plays a pivotal role in addressing India’s coexistence of undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and rising noncommunicable diseases. This perspective synthesizes evidence on how nutrition, food, and health literacy shape dietary behavior and program uptake. This will highlight the rural–urban and adolescent–young adult gaps. We argue for participatory action research (PAR) approaches to co-design context-specific interventions and propose a multilevel strategy spanning schools, antenatal care, and community platforms. We present a conceptual framework linking literacy domains to improved dietary quality and NCD prevention, and outline priorities for measurement and policy integration in India.
Keywords: Nutrition literacy, India, Malnutrition, Noncommunicable disease, food literacy
Received: 09 Jun 2025; Accepted: 08 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Mankar, Kawalkar, Quazi Syed and Gaidhane. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Amar Mankar, amarmankar0109@gmail.com
Umesh Kawalkar, umeshkawalkar01@gmail.com
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