Brand record
Abbott (Ensure, PediaSure): FSSAI and lab-test record
Last checked 19 September 2026. A few details are still being checked against the original document.
No FSSAI ban, recall or notice against Abbott's Ensure or PediaSure is on record as of 19 Sep 2026; the Citizens Protein Project reported a severe protein shortfall in Ensure Plus (2024) and undeclared sugars and taurine in Ensure (2025).
- Classification
- Independent lab test finding: Lab-flagged (independent tests)
- Tested by
- No regulator action; findings from Citizens Protein Project 1 and 2 (published studies)
- Reference
- Citizens Protein Project 1 (Medicine, Apr 2024); Citizens Protein Project 2 (Medicine, 14 Nov 2025)
- Latest action
- 14 November 2025
- Last checked
- 19 September 2026details being verified
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The Citizens Protein Project: a self-funded, transparent, and concerned-citizen-driven study of protein supplements sold in India (Apr 2024)
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Below: Blacklisted's explanationWe explain what the test or study found. No regulator has acted on it.
Key facts
- CPP1: Ensure Plus
- Severe protein shortfall against label (Apr 2024)
- CPP2: Ensure Diabetes Care
- 21.5 g protein/100 g; fructose 9.77 g/100 g not on label; taurine 32.8 g/100 g
- CPP2: Ensure (Normal)
- 16.3 g protein/100 g; sucrose 4.81 g/100 g; taurine 9.3 g/100 g
- CPP2: Ensure High Protein
- 32.8 g protein/100 g; sucrose 1.29 g/100 g; taurine 13.8 g/100 g
- CPP2: PediaSure
- 17.0 g protein/100 g; sucrose 4.7 g/100 g; taurine 21.4 g/100 g
- Heavy metals / aflatoxin (CPP2)
- None detected in any Abbott product tested
- Regulator action
- None on record
Abbott's medical-nutrition range is prescribed and recommended widely in India, which is why the Citizens Protein Project tested it in both rounds. The 2024 study reported a severe shortfall between Ensure Plus's labelled and measured protein. The November 2025 study, which tested 34 products with a fuller panel, examined four Abbott products. It found no lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, aflatoxin or steroid hormones in any of them. What it did report was sugar not declared on labels, fructose of roughly 9.8 g per 100 g in Ensure Diabetes Care and sucrose of 1.3 to 4.8 g per 100 g in the others, and taurine at 9 to 33 g per 100 g, which the authors argue can inflate nitrogen-based protein measurements.
The fructose figure in a product positioned for diabetics is the finding most likely to matter to users, and it is one to raise with a doctor rather than act on alone.
FSSAI has taken no action against Abbott Nutrition that is on record, and no Abbott rebuttal has been located. All products remain on sale.
What this means for you
The 2025 flags are about labels
CPP2 found no heavy metals or aflatoxin in Abbott products. The concerns are sugars not declared and taurine that may inflate protein readings.
Diabetes Care and fructose
A product marketed for diabetics was reported to contain about 9.8 g fructose per 100 g. Anyone using it for glucose control may want to ask their doctor about that figure.
This is a record of official orders, not medical advice. Do not stop a prescribed medicine without asking your doctor or pharmacist.
Official sources and primary records
- The Citizens Protein Project: a self-funded, transparent, and concerned-citizen-driven study of protein supplements sold in India (Apr 2024)StudyMedicine (Wolters Kluwer)
- The Citizens Protein Project 2: the first publicly funded study of protein supplements in IndiaStudyMedicine (Wolters Kluwer) · 14 November 2025
- Citizens Protein Project 2 results site (per-product lab data)StudyCitizens Protein Project