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A fact from FoodPharmer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 December 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a viral video by an Indian influencer (pictured) resulted in the sugar content of Bournvita being cut by almost 15 percent?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Revant Himatsingka.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Nineteen Ninety-Four guy talk 04:41, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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FoodPharmer

... that an Indian social media influencer's (pictured) viral video on the sugar content of a children's "health drink" compelled its parent company to slash sugar by almost 15%?

Source: "In addition, Bournvita reduced added sugar by a massive margin of 15% in their product." - https://www.freepressjournal.in/brandsutra/sweet-victory-of-a-one-man-army
"the brand has now reduced the quantity of added sugar by 14.4 percent.", "Previously, the Bournvita product contained 37.4 grams of added sugar per 100 grams of powder. The revised formula has a reduced sugar content of 32.2 grams per 100 grams." - https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/bournvita-reduces-added-sugar-content-after-backlash-influencer-calls-it-big-win-2480239-2023-12-25
"Cadbury reduced the quantity of added sugar in Bournvita by 14.4 percent in December 2023" - https://thebetterindia.com/350012/revant-himatsingka-food-pharmer-nutrition-ingredient-list-read-label-padhega-india-mumbai/

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Comment: I think this is quite an interesting feat on the part of the influencer that a viral video was able to get Cadbury to reduce added sugar in Bournvita (marketed as children's health drink in India) by almost 15%, even as they sent legal notices and filed lawsuits against him. Also, I am new to DYK, and not sure if the hook could be made better than this. Thanks!

Moved to mainspace by CX Zoom (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

—CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 20:22, 26 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Not a review. Just noting that you could use this new infobox image for an image hook. Bremps... 07:15, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:12, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article is new enough, long enough. Earwig doesn't flag any issues. However, we aren't ready to move forward yet due to the grammatical issues and the underdeveloped lede. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:09, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I will try to work on it and fix the issues. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 19:52, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@User:Crisco 1492: I have made some copyedits to the article and added a longer lede. Can you please take a look, and let me know if anything else is required? Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 13:56, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. This looks good to go now. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Is it possible to include the image of the subject, that Bremps uploaded? —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 15:44, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ping @User:Crisco 1492: —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:03, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The license checks out. Feel free to add it to the nomination. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:25, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks! Done. @User:Crisco 1492. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:47, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How is his username formatted?

This page is the only source I've seen formatting it as "FoodPharmer". Someone edited it to say "Food Pharmer", which it says on LinkedIn and Facebook. His YouTube account just says "Foodpharmer". If anyone can find anything consistent, I believe this page should be moved. –BBO102104 (talk) 18:15, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the alias has no consistent formatting, either on his various social media accounts, or on WP:RSes. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:13, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]