Jacqueline Fernandez and Kunal Kapur joined Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution with a live cooking demonstration on Facebook.

The world’s largest free midday meal programme led by The AkshayaPatra Foundation served its 2 billionth meal on Food Revolution Day at a school in Guwahati, Assam Millions of children in India suffer from being severely undernourished.

Over a quarter of Indian children between the ages of 13 and 18 are classed as obese.

India saw the launch of Food Revolution Day amidst a fanfare of celebrities, live cooking events, a flurry of social media activity and, of course, the British celebrity chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver, who launched the campaign.

Jamie and his army of revolutionaries staged a series of live events on Facebook to encourage governments at the World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva on 23rd May to tackle the child nutrition crisis.

In India the campaign’s Global Champions - Bollywood A-lister Jacqueline Fernandez and judge and host of MasterChef Kunal Kapur - were the hosts of the live event on Facebook which took place at Pali Village Cafe in Bandra West. Food Revolution Day also partnered with The AkshayaPatra Foundation, the world’s largest free midday meal programme, to serve its 2 billionth nutritious meal at a school in Guwahati, Assam.

The AkshayaPatra Foundation serves nutritious food to over 1.5 million children every school day, in 11,000 schools across 10 states in India. On Food Revolution Day, The AkshayaPatra Foundation served its 2 billionth meal. As part of Food Revolution Day, Jamie also took an International Omelette Challenge global to get people, young and old, experiencing first-hand how super-quick, easy and delicious healthy grub can be wherever you are, and encourage more noise on social media for the Food Revolution.

The aim of Food Revolution Day was to encourage people to join them in a full-scale, global Food Revolution – a major part of which will be giving people power to lobby their own governments to fight diet-related disease.

It aims to provoke discussion and inspire positive, meaningful change in the way we access, consume and understand food.

Jamie Oliver said: “The last 15 years have been tough at times. There were a few of us out there asking questions, wanting answers and making a lot of noise but it often felt like no one was listening.

"But recently we’ve started making headway, governments are beginning to change policies. This Food Revolution Day we’re going to give governments that extra little nudge by running longest-ever Facebook Live campaign, getting millions of people involved from all around the globe. The World is crying out for action and there has never been a better time to make changes to save millions of lives.”

Jacqueline Fernandez said, ‘Started my day discussing my favourite topic health and nutrition! Jamie Oliver has started a global food education campaign to eat better. In a country like India riddled with problems like starvation and obesity this was an important discussion. Let the Food Revolution never stop!".

Chef Kunal Kapur sai, Jamie Oliver’s food revolution is so important because it promotes healthy eating using local, fresh produce. India needs to discuss the importance of healthy eating and nutrition and this event was just the stepping stone. The Food Revolution has to continue and spread globally".

Dipika Khaitan, Executive Director, AkshayaPatra UK said, 'It's an exciting partnership between AkshayaPatra and Food Revolution Day on a doubly momentous day, with AkshayaPatra serving it's 2 Billionth meal and Jamie launching his Food Revolution day programme in India. Together we endeavour to not just tackle hunger, but be able to serve a healthier, more nutritious meal to every child in India and across the world.'