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This product is a classic Indian namkeen bought by consumers seeking a traditional fried lentil snack. The ingredient list is refreshingly short — 75% moong dal fried in a blend of refined palmolein and cottonseed oil, salted with iodized and black salt — with no artificial colours, preservatives, or flavour enhancers. The main concerns are the use of refined high-temperature-processed vegetable oils (which generate GE and 3-MCPD contaminants flagged by EFSA), a meaningful saturated-fat contribution from palmolein, and the combined sodium load from two salt varieties. There is also a notable discrepancy in the label's nutrition table: the raw label data shows sodium at 472 mg per 100 g, while the parsed figure used here is 141 mg per 100 g — this is likely an OCR transcription error (the 141 mg value may be per-serving, not per 100 g) and the true per-100 g sodium is probably around 470 mg, making this a moderately high-sodium snack. The most useful takeaway: for a fried packaged snack, the ingredient deck is genuinely clean, but the refined oils and high sodium mean heart, kidney, and hypertension-affected consumers should limit portions.
