Highlights

  • Green peas contain a fair amount of vitamins, fiber & antioxidants
  • Green peas can sometimes be adulterated with artificial colour
  • FSSAI shared a simple experiment to detect adulteration in green peas

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Are your green peas adulterated with harmful colour? Find out with this quick FSSAI hack

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) recommends this simple test to check for adulteration in Green peas. Take a look!

Are your green peas adulterated with harmful colour? Find out with this quick FSSAI hack

Green peas are very nutritious and contain many vitamins, fiber & antioxidants. But as healthy as green peas are, they can sometimes be adulterated with artificial colour. So, before consuming peas, how about trying a simple experiment to test adulteration?

The Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) shared a simple test to determine how green peas are adulterated
with harmful colours. Take a look!

Here’s how to detect adulteration in green peas:

  • Take some green peas in transparent glass
  • Now, add water to it, mix well and wait for half an hour
  • Unadulterated green peas do not leave any colour, while adulterated green peas with artificial colour will turn water green

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