Food Adulteration: Are there chemicals in the fruits and vegetables available in the market? This is how to identify the difference between real and adulterated!

1Food Adulteration: To stay hydrated during the summer season, people consume more fruits and vegetables. Doctors also recommend eating fruits and salads to avoid de-hydration, heatstroke and side effects of sunlight, but do you know that fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins and minerals are secretly attacking your health.

Yes, the demand for fruits and vegetables increases during the summer season, to meet which they are cooked quickly with the help of gas and chemicals. Calcium carbide is used in many places to ripen fruits. Now if we eat such fruits and vegetables without knowing, then dangerous diseases can develop in the body.

Now the thing to think about is how will real and adulterated fruits be identified? we tell-

look at the color of the fruit

Whenever you go to buy fruits, pay attention to the color and shine of the fruits. Naturally ripe fruits are sometimes dark in color and sometimes light in color. It is also normal to have small spots on fruits.

• Now if fruits like banana, papaya, apple are looking more shiny and spotless then understand that they have been cooked with calcium carbide and wax coated.
• Also check the stem of the fruit whether its color is too dark? Let us tell you that when fruits are treated with chemicals, they appear yellow-green in colour.

Check the taste of fruits

Naturally ripe fruits are completely safe to eat. Their taste, aroma and water content are also good, whereas the chemical essence remains in fruits ripened by gas and injection. They can be eaten raw, too sweet or even tasteless. Many times the fruit looks fine from outside, but turns out to be bad from inside.

Try immersing fruits and vegetables in water

To identify whether fruits and vegetables have been cooked with chemical injection or carbide, the fruits must be immersed in water. If the fruit starts floating on water then understand. Gas and chemicals have been used in cooking it. In such a situation, there is less nutrition inside the fruits and they remain hollow.

Keep these things in mind

Bottle gourd, watermelon and pumpkin available in the market are often increased in size by injecting them. These fruits and vegetables look heavy in weight, but inside they are colorless and completely bland in taste. In fact, there is a possibility of injecting growth hormones like oxytocin into them.

Take these precautions before eating

If you have brought fruits and vegetables home without checking them, then be careful before eating or cooking them.

• Before eating the fruit, soak it in water for 15-20 minutes.
• Mix some vinegar or baking soda in water. This reduces the effect of chemical coatings or pesticides.
• Always include seasonal fruits and vegetables in your diet, because there is a higher possibility of adulteration in unseasonal vegetables.