Your breakfast has protein. Your coffee has protein. Your snack has protein. Your Instagram feed probably has protein too. Somewhere between protein coffees, protein bars and “high-protein” everything, one nutrient has quietly been pushed out of the spotlight: fibre. And now, India’s nutrition conversation is beginning to look beyond the question of “How much protein are you eating?” A 2026 food trends report highlighted fibre deficiency as one of the nutritional concerns experts expect to dominate the health conversation. The irony? Fibre has been sitting in many traditional Indian foods all along.
