Commercial Applications
What is food adulteration? Give one/two example.
OR
What do you mean by the term food adulteration?
Answer
Food adulteration means deliberate mixing of low quality, undesirable, inedible and even toxic materials in food items. It is harmful to health and can cause serious diseases.
Examples:
- Mixing of argemone oil in mustard oil and other edible oils, which causes a serious disease called dropsy.
- Mixing of kesari dal in arhar dal, which can cause paralysis of the legs (lathyrism).
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