Analysis of Food quality and Food Adulterants from Different Departmental & Local Grocery Stores by Qualitative Analysis for Food Safety

Abstract

Food is one of the basic needs for every living being and very important aspect for life. But now day's foods are affected by different adulterants. Adulteration is a substance which reduces the vital importance of food. Some of the common adulterants are mineral oils, argemone oils, castor oils in edible oils; vanaspathi, mashed potato in ghee; invert sugar or jiggery in honey, kesari dal, lead chromate in pulses etc. which can leads to Epidemic dropsy, Glaucoma, Cardiac arrest, Lathyrism (crippling spastic paraplegia), Anemia, abortion, paralysis, brain damage, cancer etc. The aim is to evaluate the presence of adulterant from daily uses food materials like Milk , Butter, Edible oil, Honey, Pulses, Wheat Flour, Black Pepper, Chilli powder, Coffee powder which we collected from different departmental and local grocery stores and checked the presence of individual adulterants by biochemical qualitative analysis. The colour change of the sample indicate the according to the reagents is indicates the presence of different adulterants. This information can help to grow the food safety and also people can be aware about the food brands for a healthy life.