2024-07-11 03:19:17
Bhopal: Do you know that the dishes made of mawa that you eat in weddings and other functions can be fatal? We are saying this because fake mawa is being supplied in the entire state including Bhopal. Gwalior-Chambal region is infamous for making fake milk, ghee and mawa. Meanwhile, the food department has seized 36 quintals of mawa that came to Bhopal from Gwalior. The amazing thing is that this mawa was lying unclaimed. It has no owner. The food department has full suspicion that this is adulterated fake mawa. This mawa was brought to Bhopal by train on Wednesday night. The cost of the huge quantity of mawa caught is being said to be eight lakh rupees.
According to the officials of the Food Safety and Drug Administration Department, the department’s team has seized mawa from in front of GB Convent Higher Secondary School in Bajaria. This mawa was being supplied to traders. Mawa was brought to Bhopal from Gwalior. The staff has taken samples of the seized mawa. These will be sent to the Street Food Laboratory for testing.
How is fake mawa made?
Fake mawa is made by mixing inferior quality milk powder, talcum powder, lime, chalk and white chemicals, urea in milk, detergent powder and inferior quality vanaspati ghee. Ordinary washing powder, refined oil, water and pure milk are mixed to make synthetic milk. By this process, 20 liters of synthetic milk is prepared from one liter of pure milk. Mawa is prepared from this milk. Some people also add sweet potato, water chestnut flour, refined flour or potato in mawa. Potato and starch are added to increase the weight of mawa. This mawa can be fatal.
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How to identify fake mawa: According to the officials, heat mawa by adding some sugar to it, if it leaves water then it is fake. Dissolve 2 gram mawa in 5 ml hot water and let it cool. After it cools down, add tincture iodine to it. If the mawa is fake then its colour will turn blue.