EDUPEDIYA – FOOD ADULTERATION ( PART-1)

 EDUPEDIYA – FOOD  ADULTERATION                                     PART-1

FOOD:

• v Food is an essential substance which is nutritious and gives nourishment to human as well as animals.
• v Food which consumed by human or animal or plant that absorbs in order to maintain our life and growth.
• v Food gives nutritional support to an organism and its origin is plants or animal which contains essential nutrients like carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, or minerals.

ADULTERATION:

• v Adulteration is a term which represents the action of making things poorer in quality by adding poisonous or deleterious substance.
• v Adulteration in food item tends to increase the quantity which results in loss of actual quality of food item.

ADULTERATED FOOD TO BE DECLARED IF:

• v Addition of a substance which is injurious to the health.
• v Addition of substance which are lower in quality.
• v Abstraction of necessary substance which are valuable.
• v It is emulation.
• v Excess color or otherwise treated are added to improve the appearance.
• v Low quality foods which are below the standard.

TYPES OF ADULTERANTS:

    

  CHEMICAL METHODS TO IDENTIFY ADULTERATED FOODS CONTINUED IN NEXT PART……………………