12 Indian Dieticians Nutritionists & Food Safety Influencers to follow for better health

Do you share the collective fear that what you are eating is not nutritious enough?

Do you fear that the food your family is having is not at all healthy?

Well, you are not alone!

But how would you know what food is best for you?

The biggest problem is that social media platforms are flooded with wannabe fitness experts, dieticians, and nutritionists and you lose your way in that maze.

Luckily, we have some of the best Indian dieticians, nutritionists, and healthy food influencers in India, who will hand-hold you and walk you through your journey towards a healthier tomorrow.

Here’s our updated, deeply researched list of the top 12 Indian dieticians, nutritionists, and food-safety advocates worth following in 2026, who they are, what they’ve achieved, and why their voice matters.

How we picked this list

We didn’t just look at follower counts. Each name here brings something distinct to the table, a formal clinical background, a body of published books, a specific health niche like PCOS or celiac disease, a food-safety investigation track record, or simply years of consistent, myth-busting content. We’ve also deliberately mixed credentialed clinical professionals with relatable, real-food influencers and consumer watchdogs, because all three have a role to play: one for medically sound guidance, one for everyday inspiration, and one for keeping the food industry honest.

Top 12 Indian Dieticians and Nutritionists

Rujuta Diwekar

If there’s one name that comes up first in any conversation about Indian nutrition, it’s Rujuta Diwekar. A Mumbai-based sports nutritionist, she holds a postgraduate diploma in Sports Science and Nutrition from S.N.D.T. Women’s University and has additional training in sports dietetics and yoga.

Diwekar built her national reputation on a simple, almost rebellious idea: you don’t need to give up parathas, rice, or ghee to be healthy. Her philosophy, “Eat Local, Think Global,” urges people to eat seasonal, regional, home-cooked food instead of chasing imported superfoods and fad diets.

Achievements worth knowing:

• Author of multiple bestselling books, including Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight, Women & the Weight Loss Tamasha, and Indian Superfoods — together they’ve sold well over a million copies in India.
• Winner of the Nutrition Award from the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology.
• Named among People magazine’s “50 Most Powerful People in India.”
• Launched “Run With Rujuta,” one of India’s first structured marathon-training programs.
• Has worked with a long list of Bollywood names over the years, and is frequently credited with popularising the idea of sustainable, food-first weight management in India.

She busts food myths constantly and leans on age-old Indian nutrition wisdom rather than imported diet culture, which is exactly why she has such a loyal, multi-generational following.

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Dr. Shikha Sharma

With close to three decades in the field, Dr. Shikha Sharma is one of India’s most credentialed nutrition entrepreneurs. A medical doctor by training (MBBS, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi), she started her career as a junior doctor in cardiology, and it was there, watching ICU patients with zero awareness that their eating habits had caused their heart disease, that she decided to specialise in preventive nutrition.

That realisation led her to found Dr. Shikha’s NutriHealth, a health-tech-driven diet and lifestyle management platform that blends modern clinical nutrition with Ayurvedic principles, an approach she calls “Nutrigenetics.”

Achievements worth knowing:

• Built NutriHealth into a nationwide practice with a large team of doctors, nutritionists, and technologists, reportedly serving tens of thousands of clients over the years.
• Recipient of the Women Achiever Award from FICCI and the Gr8! Women Achievers Award.
• Recognised by India Today as one of the country’s Top 50 Young Achievers.
• Has advised celebrities, business leaders, and public figures on diet and lifestyle management.
• Featured as a case study in Rashmi Bansal’s entrepreneurship book, Follow Every Rainbow.

If you want a nutritionist whose approach is rooted in actual clinical medicine rather than internet trends, Dr. Shikha is a strong one to follow.

Pramilla Ohlson

Pramilla Ohlson has built her Instagram following the old-fashioned way: by actually cooking on camera. Based in Mumbai, she shares her real, everyday family meals, the ones she makes for her own husband and kids, rather than polished, styled “diet content.”

Her core message is refreshingly simple: starving yourself to look slimmer is never the answer. Instead, she pushes for consistent daily nutrition and an active lifestyle, she herself trains for half marathons and treks regularly.

Worth knowing:

• Won the 2021 WIBA Award (Women in Business Award) for Health & Nutrition.
• Has built an engaged community of over 300,000 followers who turn to her for practical breakfast, lunch, and dinner ideas.
• Her content and coaching consistently emphasise small, sustainable daily habits over drastic diet changes — a philosophy she describes as “compounding over time.”

If you’re the kind of person who needs to see a recipe being made in real time before you’ll actually try it, her page is genuinely useful. 

Anjali Mukerjee

Anjali Mukerjee is one of the true pioneers of Indian nutrition consulting. She started her clinical practice in 1984, long before “nutritionist” was a common career choice in India, and built Health Total into one of the country’s largest preventive healthcare and diet counselling chains.

Achievements worth knowing:

• Was the official nutritionist to the Femina Miss India pageant from 1997 to 2004, designing diet plans for titleholders including Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra, Dia Mirza, Neha Dhupia, and Gul Panag.
• Author of the bestselling book Healing with Food.
• Long-running columnist for Hindustan Times and several major Indian magazines, including Femina and Savvy.
• Combines nutrition science with Ayurvedic principles through her “Integrated Approach,” which she has documented in published case studies in scientific journals.
• Has advised corporate wellness programmes for organisations like SBI and HDFC.

Mukerjee’s four-decade body of work makes her one of the most experienced names on this list, someone who was doing evidence-based nutrition counselling long before it became an Instagram trend.

Leema Mahajan

Leema Mahajan built her following by documenting her own transformation, sharing exactly what she eats day to day, along with the recipes and swaps that helped her on her own weight-loss journey.

What makes her content useful isn’t celebrity polish; it’s relatability. If you’ve ever felt stuck and unsure where to start with healthier eating, her page reads less like a lecture and more like advice from a friend who’s already walked the path, sharing practical recipes and realistic daily meal ideas rather than restrictive, hard-to-sustain plans.

If you’re looking for someone whose credibility comes from lived experience rather than a clinical title, she’s worth a follow. Just remember to pair her tips with guidance from a qualified professional for anything beyond general meal inspiration. Accounts like hers work best as a source of daily motivation and kitchen-table ideas, not as a replacement for a personalised diet plan.

DietTubeIndia

Run by Dt. Bhawesh, a member of the Indian Dietetic Association (IDA), Diet Tube India exists largely to do one job well: bust food myths.

Indian food culture comes with generations of inherited “wisdom”, some of it accurate, a lot of it not. Dt. Bhawesh uses his platform to separate the two, walking through the actual science behind common claims about food combinations, supplements, and “superfoods,” and calling out influencers who push unscientific advice for profit.

Why it’s useful: In a category crowded with people selling supplement stacks and detox teas, having a credentialed IDA member actively fact-checking food trends is a genuinely valuable public service , especially for families trying to filter signal from noise. The IDA itself, founded in 1963, exists precisely to safeguard professional standards in dietetics, so following members who hold that registration is a reasonable proxy for reliability when you can’t verify every claim yourself.

Wormrani

Vani Murthy, better known as Worm Rani, isn’t a nutritionist in the clinical sense she’s a sustainability and composting educator based in Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. We’re including her here because her work sits right at the intersection of “what we eat” and “what happens to the food we don’t.”

A former homemaker, Murthy started sharing her zero-waste journey on Facebook back in 2007, long before “zero waste” became a hashtag. She was a founding member of the Bangalore Solid Waste Management Round Table and has spent years teaching households how to compost kitchen waste using earthworms, turning what would be landfill waste into fertile soil for home gardens.

Achievements worth knowing:

• Built a following of over 270,000 people on Instagram through hands-on composting demonstrations and terrace-gardening content.
• Featured in National Geographic India’s “One for Change” initiative.
• Has been a driving voice behind citizen-led waste segregation efforts in Bengaluru.

Her message that every household can take responsibility for its own food waste, and even enjoy doing it is a genuinely different lens on healthy, sustainable living, and a nice complement to the more diet-focused names on this list.

Nutritionist.Avanti

Avanti Deshpande is a clinical and sports nutritionist who has carved out a niche around gut health, hormone balance, and PCOS, topics that are still under-discussed in mainstream Indian diet content.

Through her Instagram page, she covers reverse dieting, gut-friendly eating, hormone-reset strategies, and how to make genuinely healthy eating sustainable rather than restrictive. She also identifies as a cognitive hypnotic coach, bringing a behavioural angle to her nutrition advice rather than just meal plans.

Why she’s worth following: If you’re dealing with hormonal issues, PCOS, or persistent gut trouble and want content that goes beyond generic “eat more protein” advice, her page speaks directly to that audience with a level of specificity most general nutrition accounts don’t offer.

Pooja Makhija

Pooja Makhija is one of India’s most recognisable celebrity nutritionists, known for her bestselling book Eat Delete, first published in 2012 and reprinted multiple times, and later translated into Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Marathi.

Holding an MSc in Food Science and Nutrition and a BSc in Dietetics, Makhija runs her Mumbai-based clinic, Nourish, and has consulted for a long list of Bollywood actors and public figures over more than fifteen years of practice.

Achievements worth knowing:

• Author of two national bestsellers: Eat Delete and Eat Delete Junior.
• Founder of Nourish Genie, a digital platform delivering customised meal plans to clients around the world.
• Has appeared as a speaker at TEDx events and various health panels.
• Ran her own TV show and wrote regular nutrition columns for The Times of India and DNA.
• Was the nutritionist for the Miss India and I Am She beauty pageants.

Her central philosophy that food is fuel, not the enemy, and that weight loss starts in the mind before it starts on the plate, has resonated with a broad, non-celebrity audience too.

Dr. Ishi Khosla

Dr. Ishi Khosla is a clinical nutritionist and the founder of Whole Foods India. Through her platform, she covers everything from managing diabetes while travelling, to choosing good fats, to understanding gluten-free grains and the effects of excess salt on health.

Achievements worth knowing:

• Founding President of the Celiac Society of India, where she has played a key role in raising awareness about celiac disease and gluten sensitivity in the country.
• Author of three books on diets, nutrition myths, and healthy eating habits.
• Advocates for a sustainable, largely plant-based diet built around legumes, pulses, nuts, and seeds.

Her clinical background combined with her advocacy work makes her a particularly credible voice on conditions that don’t get enough mainstream attention in Indian diet culture, like celiac disease and gluten intolerance.

Revant Himatsingka — FoodPharmer

Revant Himatsingka isn’t a dietician in the clinical sense, but no list about what Indians actually eat is complete without him. Known online as FoodPharmer, he left a high-paying finance and consulting career, including an MBA from Wharton and a stint at McKinsey, to build a platform focused entirely on one skill: reading a food label properly.

His pitch is simple and hard to argue with, packaged food is marketed as “healthy,” “natural,” or “no added sugar,” and most of that is legally allowed marketing rather than nutritional truth. FoodPharmer breaks down what’s actually in the ingredient list, often with humour, and holds brands accountable when the label doesn’t match reality.

Achievements worth knowing:

• Built a following of several million people across Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms, making him one of India’s most-followed health-literacy voices.
• Started the “Sugar Boards” and “Oil Boards” movement — visual displays showing how much sugar or oil is hidden in common packaged foods — which has since been adopted in schools across India.
• His public campaigns pushed several major FMCG brands, including on their sugar content, to reconsider or reformulate products.
• Founded his own nutrition-focused company, OWN, developed with community input rather than as a typical brand launch.
• Won the Indian of the Year Influencer Award in 2025.

He’s also been on the receiving end of legal notices from some of the very brands he’s called out — a sign of how much his label-reading campaigns have rattled the packaged food industry. If you want to actually understand what’s on the back of a packet before it goes in your cart, his content is some of the most useful, no-nonsense nutrition education in the country right now.

Anirudh Gupta — Food Safety War

Where FoodPharmer focuses on what’s printed on a label, Anirudh Gupta’s page, Food Safety War, focuses on what happens behind the counter, inside restaurant kitchens and food outlets that customers never get to see.

Gupta records and shares undercover-style footage of hygiene lapses at restaurants and food chains, from unwashed prep areas to previously used condiments and garnishes being reused for new customers, and posts it with a clear disclaimer that his content is based on his own observations and is meant to raise public awareness rather than defame any individual establishment.

Why it’s useful: His investigations have repeatedly gone viral, in some cases crossing a million views on a single video, and have sparked public calls for stricter enforcement by food safety authorities like the FSSAI. In a country where restaurant hygiene inspections don’t always reach the public eye, this kind of consumer-driven accountability fills a real gap, and it’s a useful reminder that “eating out safely” is just as much a part of everyday nutrition as what you cook at home.

Who are you going to follow?

One thing is clear we cannot live without food. 

But to make sure that what you eat is nutritious and healthy is a bit of a challenge.

Getting information from the right person is extremely important, especially regarding your diet and this list has the top names from the diet and nutrition industry.

You just have to decide who fits your bill and follow them for updates that help you make the best decisions about your diet.

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