The demand for sweets and dry fruits increases significantly in the market during the festive season. In such a situation, some people also try to make sweets from dry fruits at home, so that they do not have to eat adulterated and unhealthy sweets from outside. Do you know that the dry fruits available in the market during festivals are also adulterated and fake. Chemicals are being used in these, so that they look fresh and golden, so that people buy more of them. In such a situation, let us tell you how to identify real and fake fruits while buying dry fruits in the market?

How does adulteration occur in dry fruits?

Anyone looking at dry fruits will wonder how it can be adulterated. But seeing the increasing demand for dry fruits during festivals, most of the shopkeepers start selling fake dry fruits. These old and rotten dry fruits are washed with acid and chemical coating is applied on them so that they look absolutely fresh. Cashews available in the market are washed with HCL i.e. hydrochloric acid so that they look more shiny and white. Also, one should never buy broken dry fruits because they are adulterated and are repackaged and sold in the market.

How to identify fake dry fruits?

To avoid buying fake and adulterated dry fruits, it is important for you to identify real and fake dry fruits. In such a situation, you can easily identify real and fake dry fruits by adopting some tricks.

1. Avoid going to the market to buy broken dry fruits because they are often washed with chemicals. Also, these are made shiny to be sold in the market, hence the possibility of adulteration is highest.

2. If you want, you can identify it through scientific methods also. For this you have to take a normal litmus paper. Cashew nuts have to be slightly wet and placed on litmus paper. If the litmus paper turns red or orange, then understand that it is acidic, that is, acid has been used in it. But if the color does not change then it is a symbol of purity.

3. To check dry fruits, you can also take help of their smell and texture. You can easily identify fake dry fruits because they have a strong and strange chemical smell due to being washed in chemicals, whereas real dry fruits have a light and sweet smell.

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