These days, adulteration is being done in many food items in the market. This is a very serious problem. Consuming them not only harms our health but also becomes the main cause of many serious diseases in the body in the future. Nowadays, adulteration is being done extensively in milk, dairy products, grains and pulses. The government is making many efforts at its level to stop this adulteration. Despite all these efforts, complaints of adulteration in many things sold in the market keep coming up from time to time. Rotis made from flour are consumed with great relish in all our homes. Do you know that these days adulteration is being done extensively in flour also?
In this series, today we are going to tell you about some special methods, with the help of which you can identify adulterated flour sold in the market.
You can identify adulteration in flour by taking a glass of water. For this, you will have to take a glass of water and add one spoon of flour to it. After putting the flour in water, you have to leave it for ten seconds.
If your flour is pure. In such a situation, being heavy, it will sit at the bottom of the glass. If the flour has been adulterated. In such a situation, it will be seen floating upwards in the water.
You can also detect adulteration in flour with the help of lemon. For this, you have to add a few drops of lemon in one spoon of flour. After adding lemon juice, bubbles start forming. In such a situation, there is a big possibility that the flour has been adulterated.
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