New Delhi, April 9 -- Dry fruits, the long-celebrated nutritional powerhouse, are not actually the ultimate superfoods they've been marketed as, a Gurugram-based obesity surgeon warned.

In a viral Instagram Reel, Dr Anshuman Kaushal aka social media's The Angry Doc, warned that these "healthy snacks" are actually a "decorated calorie bomb" which is slowly killing your diet.

Dr Anshuman is a Robotic MI Obesity Surgeon at CK Birla Hospital, Gurugram and a faculty examiner at the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), according to this LinkedIn profile.

The surgeon said that Indians love raiding the dry fruit box in the kitchen at night, thinking that almonds, cashews and raisins are healthy. But he warned that these ...