Nutritionist Lakshmi Kale warns that packaged snacks marketed as healthy—such as millet chips, vegetable crisps, and protein cookies—still undergo heavy processing.
Ingredients like millets or vegetables do not negate added oils, salts, sugars, and high caloric content in finished commercial products.
Consumers are advised to carefully check nutrition labels, ingredient lists, and actual portion sizes rather than relying solely on front-of-pack health halos.