How To Check Adulteration In Mustard Oil- Mustard oil or refined oil is used for cooking in almost all households. Many different brands of oil are easily available in the market, while in many places open mustard oil is also being sold indiscriminately. These oils can be adulterated (Adulterated Mustard Oil), which is poison for your health. Consumption of this adulterated oil can lead to many diseases. In such a situation, while taking mustard oil from the market, it is very important to identify adulterated oil. Today we are going to tell you how to identify the adulterated mustard oil found in the market and how much it can harm health.
Adulterated Mustard Oil Side Effects
vomiting and diarrhoea
swollen feet
body rash
Glaucoma can cause loss of vision
heart and respiratory diseases
risk of anaemia
How To Identify Adulterated Mustard Oil
For this, put 5 ml mustard oil in a glass tube, then add 5 ml nitric acid to it and mix it slowly. After this, if the colour of the oil turns from golden to orange, then understand that the oil is adulterated. On the other hand, if there is no change in colour, then it is pure oil.
Keep this in mind while buying mustard oil
Before buying mustard oil, take special care that the oil is of a good brand and packed. Apart from this, check whether the packed oil has FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) certification or not and buy only FSSAI-certified oil.
