Definitionof food adulteration- types of food adulteration- common adulteration, effects and its some examples

1. By
G. Vimala

2. It is defined as the “ process in which the quality of food is
lowered either by the addition of inferior quality material or
by the extraction of valubale ingredient” is called food
adulteration.

3. Define adulteration
 It is defined as “the addition or subtraction of any
substance to or from food, so that the natural
composition and quality of food substance is affected"

4. Types of food adulteration
There are two types
1. Intentional
2. Unintentional or
Incidental

5. Define Intentional adulteration
 Substance added
in food to improve
appearance,
flavour, texture or
storage
properties.(food
additives)

6. Define Accidental adulteration
 Substances which
accidentally get in
to foods are not
considered food
additives unless;
 Pesticides, growth
promoters,
components of
packaging
materials, solvents
and enzymes used
in food processing
etc..,

7. Common Adulterants

8. Effects of adulteration
 Adverse effects of adulteration on your health: There
is no denial to the fact that adulteration is definitely not
good. It poses a number of health hazards which include
health diseases, weaken the immune system and lots more.
Here are some more harmful effects that you might not be
aware of.
 Some hazards include body ache, anaemia, abortion,
paralysis, pathological lesions in vital organs,
abnormalities of skin and eyes, to name a few. ... For
instance, consuming edible oils, contaminated with white
oils and edible fats, causes cancer!

9. Effects of adulteration
Increase the impurity in food
Lack of nutritional value
Leads to Various disease

10. To identify adulterated food
 Milk: Pour a small drop of milk in a slanting
surface. See whether the drop leaves a white
trail, if so, it is pure milk and if there is no white
trail, you can be sure that it is adulterated.
 Ice Cream: The main adulterant used in ice
cream is washing soda. To find this, add a few
drops of lemon juice to it. If it starts to froth, then
it indicates the presence os washing soda in the
ice cream.

11. To identify adulterated food
 (c) Sugar: To find out whether chalk powder is added to the
sugar, take a clear glass of water and add a spoon of sugar to
it. Unadulterated sugar will sink to the bottom while the chalk
powder will remain at the surface of the water itself.
(d) Black Pepper Seeds: Papaya seeds are the adulterants
used in the case of black pepper seeds. Add a few pepper
seeds to alcohol, you can see Papaya seeds will sink.
(e) Mustard Seeds: Take few mustard seeds and crush them.
Actual mustard seeds will have a yellow color inner area
whereas its adulterant argemone seeds are not yellow in its
inner surface.