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    FSSAI has provided guidelines to help detect food adulteration like sugar in honey or chalk powder in sugar. For honey, add a drop to water - pure honey won't disperse while adulterated honey with sugar will. Light a cotton ball dipped in honey on fire - pure honey will burn while adulterated honey will crackle. To detect chalk in sugar, dissolve a sample in water and look for chalk settling at the bottom, indicating adulteration. Food adulteration is a serious issue in India that can harm health, and these simple tests can help consumers check for common adulterants.

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    FSSAI has provided guidelines to help detect food adulteration like sugar in honey or chalk powder in sugar. For honey, add a drop to water - pure honey won't disperse while adulterated honey with sugar will. Light a cotton ball dipped in honey on fire - pure honey will burn while adulterated honey will crackle. To detect chalk in sugar, dissolve a sample in water and look for chalk settling at the bottom, indicating adulteration. Food adulteration is a serious issue in India that can harm health, and these simple tests can help consumers check for common adulterants.

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    FSSAI has provided guidelines to help detect food adulteration like sugar in honey or chalk powder in sugar. For honey, add a drop to water - pure honey won't disperse while adulterated honey with sugar will. Light a cotton ball dipped in honey on fire - pure honey will burn while adulterated honey will crackle. To detect chalk in sugar, dissolve a sample in water and look for chalk settling at the bottom, indicating adulteration. Food adulteration is a serious issue in India that can harm health, and these simple tests can help consumers check for common adulterants.

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    FSSAI IN NEWS

    How to detect adulteration in honey, sugar and


    jaggery: Take these quick tests to check and stay safe
    Updated Jun 15, 2018 | 17:41 IST | Times Now Digital
    Food adulteration is rampant in India. Take a few quick tests check food adulteration to
    stay safe and healthy.

    New Delhi: Food adulteration is an issue of vital concern as it can have a range of
    harmful effects on health. The practice has become rampant in India and is done
    mainly to increase the quantity and make more profit. Food adulteration not only
    poses threat to your health, but the ramifications also results in a serious nutrient
    deficit, which may lead to numerous nutritional deficiencies. According to Food
    Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the technical definition of food
    adulteration is “the addition or subtraction of any substance to or from food, so that
    the natural composition and quality of food substance is affected”.

    It might sound unbelievable but the sugar and confectionery you are consuming
    everyday can have added adulterants. In India, sugar adulteration is especially
    common when the prices of sugar and jaggery go up. Common adulterants material
    FSSAI IN NEWS

    for sugar such as chalk powder and white sand can cause stomach-related
    disorders. Keeping this in mind, the FSSAI has released a skilful guide on how to
    quickly determine if the food you bought from the store is adulterated. Take a few
    quick tests below to stay safe and healthy.

    Here’s how to detect sugar solution in honey


    Test 1

     Take a transparent glass of water


     Add a drop of honey to the water
     Pure honey will not disperse, however, if it disperses in water, it tells the presence
    of added sugar.
    Test 2

     Dip cotton in honey and light it up with a matchstick.


     If the honey is pure, it will burn. Adulterated honey will produce a cracking sound
    due to the presence of water in it.
    And here’s how to detect chalk powder in sugar/pithisugar/jaggery
     Take a glass (transparent) of water.
     Now, dissolve 10 gram of the sample in water.
     If sample (sugar/pithi sugar/jaggery) is mixed with chalk, the adulterant will settle
    down at the bottom.

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