Kuttu flour is the highest use during Navratri fast. Kuttu flour is used to make many things like puri, dumplings and chila, but these days adulterated kuttu flour is being sold in the market. Its latest case has come up in Delhi. Many people became ill due to eating adulterated kuttu flour in Delhi.
In fact, these days the demand for kuttu flour suddenly increases, at such a time, some shopkeepers and businessmen add cheap flour like water chestnut, walnuts or even maida to earn profits in the real kuttu. It looks exactly as real, but it directly affects the body. According to the doctor, eating adulterated flour is the first to emerge problems like stomach pain, vomiting, gas and constipation. In such a situation, today we will tell you how to identify the flour of real and fake adulterated kuttu …
Identify with smell
You can identify the real kuttu flour with its smell. The real flour smells a slight soil or granular pomegranate, while adulterated kuttu flour usually does not have any special smell. Fake kuttu flour smells like baminapan.
Identify the texture and touching
You can make a difference between real and fake kuttu flour by its texture and touching it. The real kuttu flour is granular and slightly rough. At the same time, by rubbing it with fingers, it feels a slight coarse texture. While fake or adulterated dough sounds very fine and soft like powder, because it often contains maida or other cheap flour.
Identify color
You can identify real and fake kuttu flour with its color. The real kuttu flour is light brown in color. Its color is neither very white nor shiny. On the other hand, if you get a white or shiny kuttu flour in the market, then understand, it can be adulterated.
Test with water
Real kuttu flour can also be identified with water. For this, add a little bit of kuttu flour in a glass of water. Now see that the real kuttu flour will be floated in the water and will slowly penetrate. At the same time, the adulterated dough will either sit down immediately or it will stick to the kernels in the water.
Identification after cooking
The whole or pakode made of real kuttu flour is like a mild sweet, which keeps the stomach full for a long time. At the same time, things made of fake flour are often tasteless and get spoiled quickly.
Packing attention
You can also check its packing to make a difference between real and fake kuttu flour. While buying Kuttu flour, always check FSSAI’s mark, company name, manufacturing and expiry date on the packet. Avoid taking the flour without label or being sold in the open.
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