These days, adulteration is being done in many food items. Milk, ghee, sugar, cheese, salt and other food items are being adulterated heavily. Consuming adulterated things can have many serious consequences on our health. It is often seen that due to these things being cheap in the market, people buy them without checking their quality.
Salt is used in every household. Salt plays a very important role in enhancing the taste of the dish. At the same time, adulteration is also being done in salt. In the past years, news of adulteration in salt has been coming out continuously. If you consume this adulterated salt, then it can have many serious consequences on your health. In this episode, today we are going to tell you about those methods, with the help of which you can identify adulterated salt. Let's know -
If media reports are to be believed, plastic is mixed in salt. Apart from this, sometimes white stone powder is also mixed in salt. To detect this adulteration in salt, you have to take 1 teaspoon salt and 1 glass of water.
If salt has been adulterated, then the adulterated substance will settle down and the color of water will appear white. On the other hand, if there is no adulteration in salt, then it will mix completely in water and no dirt of any kind will be deposited at the bottom.
Sometimes soil or sand is also mixed in salt. To find out about this, you have to take a glass and mix water and salt in it. After doing this, you have to leave it for some time.
If salt has been adulterated, then in this situation soil or sand will settle at the bottom of the glass. If the salt is pure, then it will completely dissolve in water.
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