Adulteration of Food Items During Festivals

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The two months of September and October are the festival months of India as in these two months every year big festivals like Durga Puja, Dusshera, and Diwali are celebrated. And one thing which can't be neglected during these festivals is the sweets which we call 'Mithai' in Hindi. Without tasting these sweets one doesn't enjoy the festivals fully, lol. So these two months are the bangers for such sweets shop and they sell and make business crazy in these two months possibly bigger profit than their yearly one.

And so the practice of adulteration is common during this time by even well-known shops.

Adulteration means adding impurities or cheating materials to make the food item tasty and similar to the original one at a low cost by using chemicals or by using different cheap materials.

Every year numerous shops are caught doing this cheap inhumane activity and risking the lives of healthy people.

Sleeping Officials

Diwali will be celebrated on the 23rd and 24th of October in certain parts of India. This is a beautiful festival of light in which, the satellite view of India these days at night is incredible. In my city, we have 300+ such sweets shops including restaurants and so far they were only able to check 6 and here also they picked the small shops, not the big ones, hypocrisy. Every shop was found using adulteration methods to create sweets and the paneer they were using was also made with cheap and non-original materials as soon as they poured Sodium chloride (NaCl) in it, it turned black showing its impure. The good original turns yellow I think. And in recent 5 years, only 7 shops have been fined while hundreds of cases are still running in courts, lol such a flawed judiciary.

Seriousness And Shame

The judiciary needs to be strict, I felt very sad knowing about it how people can go to such a low level just to make a bigger profit by risking the life of their customers, their lifelong business makers. The problem is not only with politicians or laws, the major problem lies with the people around us. They can be honest and provide original healthy sweets but they choose to earn an extra penny taking corrupt route.

I already have talked about the judiciary in my recent posts a lot and their rules are just to save the culprits. This is a crime and unless a serious attitude is taken against them, it will continue.

Don't Worry

Not all shop owners do this but the majority of them do, so it's best to buy sweets from reputed places or even the local ones, as getting those harmful materials to perform adulteration is not easy for common people. But still, a check to every shop by officials would have been a very good approach.

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Final Thoughts

I think most developing countries have these corrupt people who perform adulteration. Does this happen in your place also?

And let me mention one more thing this not only happens with sweets but with every food item available in the market like fast foods, traditional foods, etc.

The best alternative is to learn to make the sweets by yourself, who knows you will be making a tastier variant, be confident lol.

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Adulteration happens in every part of the world. It happens here in my country too and it's so sad that the officials get bribed by these people instead of exposing the evil act

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2 years ago

Earth reeks of corruption, lol sadly. This thing is the number one barrier of countries not developing and normal people suffering.

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2 years ago

This kind of reminds me of when China put poisonous chemicals for milk formula for babies.

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2 years ago

It was done by a company or normal people with small business?

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2 years ago

I'm not quite sure but since it is infant formula I would bet it is big companies.

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2 years ago

That is true! That's why we should be careful while eating foods from open shops in festivals.

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2 years ago

It's harder and harder to find unadulterated food unless you grow them and make them yourself.

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2 years ago

Yeah, even the big restaurants do these cheap activities.

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2 years ago

It's everywhere in the world I think and it's sad. It's shocking to know that most people would risk the health of so many people just for gains. It begs the question, "where is the humanity?"

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2 years ago

Some people are very serious about health and this activity breaks their heart. Our current generation already has weak immunity and this corrupt behaviour is pushing us into more trouble.

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2 years ago

I absolutely agree with that. A lot needs to be done to tackle this else... the bigger trouble looms.

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2 years ago

Even in our place especially those colourful sweets, they dont use natural fruits to make a colourful variant of drinks and food, instead they use food coloring and magic sugar, not the same as natural sugar.

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2 years ago

It's just saddening to see people among our society doing this, the main problem is within the people.

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2 years ago

Yeaaaah, unnatural recipe is more cheap and they earn more profit without looking on the bad side on how unhealthy the product is.

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2 years ago

In Rawalpindi there is also so many celebration function of Diwali happy Diwali from neighboring country

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2 years ago

Happy Diwali bro.

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2 years ago

Adulteration Contents are available on every second shop in supermarkets. Being doctor, I can verify these stuffs and people are unaware about it. We need to spread knowledge about this.

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2 years ago

One shop owner was given warnings in my city too by people after which he is back on track but it's the job of officials, I just hope they wake up from their deep sleep.

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2 years ago

This is my first time I know about festivals connected to adulteration friend. Tasting different sweets. I love sweet foods friend but I gave a limit too.

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2 years ago

It's done in all types of dishes when there's big events here.

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2 years ago

Wow and that's really fun friend.

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2 years ago

During occasion you mostly see this adulteration happen because food is in bulk and then everybody wants the dishes to reach everybody taste.....great article

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2 years ago

Yeah, to cover the demand they choose this but it's very bad for health and cheating to those who go with healthy diet.

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2 years ago

Adulteration is food is quite common here. So many restaurants are closed dow n recently after some students got hospitalized immediately after taking burger from a nearby restaurant near the tuition centre. One child died. So now the raid is in full swing in our state capital city.

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It takes someone's death to take action, as always officials sleeping.

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