Find out if the red chillies used in the kitchen are adulterated with these 4 easy tests.

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Cases of adulteration in goods sold in the market keep coming to light every day. For this reason, even the foods that keep our health healthy can cause harm. Red chilli powder is used daily in food. Many things are mixed in it, from colors to starch, which can cause great harm to your health. In this article, we will know by which simple test you can identify adulteration in red chilli powder.

To increase weight, things like brick powder, sand, wood sawdust, bran, starch, soap powder are added to red chili powder. Apart from this, chemicals like Sudan Red and Rhodamine B are used for color in it, which can be very harmful for your health.

try water test

Take a glass and fill it with water and add one spoon of red chilli powder and leave it for some time. If after some time all the chillies settle down and the color of the water becomes very red then there is dye mixed in it. Apart from this, touch the ground chillies remaining after filtering the water. This will let you know whether things like brick powder or sand are adulterated in it.

rub it on the palm

Place a little red chilli powder on the palm and rub it, if it leaves a dark red color on the hand then the chilli is adulterated. Pure red chilli powder releases color slowly and lightly. This gives a natural color to the palm.

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do acidic test

Take out some red chilli in a bowl or plate. Add lemon juice and a little water to it. If bubbles are forming then there may be adulteration of soap powder or washing soda in it. The color of the dye may also change due to addition of lemon.

taste check

Pure chilli powder has a strong smell and taste and is also spicy, due to adulteration, its pungency can be reduced and if sand is mixed in it, then it feels astringent under the teeth. Due to such chillies the food also becomes gritty. In this way, by doing some simple tests you can detect adulteration in red chilli at home.

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Shashi Singh

Shashi Singh is working as a sub editor in TV9 Digital Hindi. Shashi, who hails from Bareilly city of Uttar Pradesh, has graduated in Arts from Bareilly College (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University) and has done PG Diploma in Integrated Digital Media from ‘The Aarohan Media School’, an institute affiliated with Amar Ujala. Along with this, he started his career in journalism as a junior content writer from Amar Ujala. She writes on topics like religion, relationships, food, health, and entertainment. He has more than three years of experience in the field of journalism. Along with entertainment, she is also interested in writing politics, crime and news of the country and the world. Apart from this, he has also taken a master’s degree in Journalism from ‘Tekvan School of Mass Communication’. She is fond of reading books, writing poems and poetry and likes to explore new things.

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