In today's time, the biggest problem while buying any item is whether it is fake. Many food items are being adulterated in the market. At the same time, adulteration is done the most, especially during the festive season. In the greed of some money, these people do not desist from mixing, which causes great harm to people's health. Now take cumin only. Almost everyone buys cumin, hence fake cumin is also being sold in the market. In such a situation, if you are also buying cumin, then you can differentiate between real and fake with the help of some methods. So let us know how fake cumin can be identified. You can know about this in the next slides...
You can identify real or fake cumin by these methods:-
Crushed cumin
If you also want to know whether the cumin you are buying is real or fake. For this, you can crush cumin seeds in your hands. If there is no change in the cumin after crushing, then it may be real cumin.
On the other hand, if the cumin is fake then it will disintegrate like clay after being crushed with hands. By this, you will know that cumin is fake and not real.
With the help of water
You can also tell whether cumin is real or fake with the help of water. For this, you have to take water in a bowl. Then cumin seeds have to be left in this water. During this time, if the cumin leaves its color or it breaks, it may mean that the cumin is fake.
Fragrantly
You can also find out from the smell of cumin whether it is real or fake. When you smell cumin, it will smell like real cumin. Whereas, nothing like this happens in fake cumin.
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