Papad vs Fryum: Why do you end up paying more for some food items and less on others?

Traditional papad and packaged fryums may be made from similar ingredients. But when it comes to their prices, you end up paying more tax on fryums than papad. And there are many other examples of food items for which GST rates are different even as their ingredients are the same. Wondering, why? Under the GST regime, food items that do not have to undergo much processing are taxed at a lesser rat…