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Is Your Ghee Pure?

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Is Your Ghee Pure?

Ghee, an important constituent of Indian Sweets. Well, not only sweets but all-over Indian delicacies. Adding ghee to any dish gives a whole different taste and aroma to it. It is ideal for various types of cooking such as deep-frying, baking, etc. Adding one teaspoon of ghee in milk with Haldi helps keep coughs and cold away. Ghee is also used in winters to keep the body warm. Ghee is rich in oil-soluble vitamins A & E, and K2. Ghee provides nutrition by detoxifying the whole body and is also an important ingredient in many Ayurvedic medicines.

Also known as clarified butter, using ghee has many benefits. Let us explore some of them below.

1) Ghee helps boost the metabolism of our body and thus helps in the process of digestion

2) Ghee contains several useful nutrients that help boost immunity

3) Ghee mainly contains saturated good fats that are helpful in maintaining a good cholesterol level

4) Ghee helps reduce stress and anxiety

But when it comes to the consumption of ghee, it is important to make sure that the ghee is pure. Like what’s the point of using ghee if it isn’t pure? It might not seem like it, but using natural and organic products can help our body in many ways.

Usually, the ghee that we buy from the market may have added colour and preservatives to keep it fresh for a long time. Not only that, in order to increase its quantity, various kinds of oils like coconut oil and hydrogenated oils like vanaspati are mixed in ghee. Nowadays, where adulteration of food is so common, finding pure ghee can be difficult. But don’t worry, you can now test the purity of ghee at home. Here are a few ways how to.

1) By Heating:
Ghee when heated in a vessel immediately turns brown if pure, whereas adulterated ghee takes time to melt and turns yellow. Thus, by heating it, its purity can be checked.

2) Palm test:
Take some amount of ghee on your palm and wait for it to melt. Pure ghee melts at body temperature. So, if the ghee starts melting, then it can be considered pure ghee.

3) Double Boiler Method:
In the double boiler method, take some amount of ghee in a glass jar and allow it to melt using the double boiler method i.e., placing it inside another vessel and heating it by steam and not directly. After it melts completely, put the jar with the mixture in it and let it refrigerate for some time. If there is the presence of coconut oil in it, then it will solidify into two different layers which indicates that the ghee is not pure. If not, then the ghee is pure.

4) By mixing with Sugar:
Sometimes vegetable oil is mixed in ghee to increase its quantity. This can be tested by adding a teaspoon of melted ghee and a pinch of sugar in a transparent bottle and shaking it. If vegetable oil has been mixed in ghee, a red colour substance will start appearing at the bottom of the bottle in some time.

Along with these home-testing methods, there are a few other ways involving chemicals which can be used to check if ghee is adulterated or not. But, you must take precautions.

1) With Iodine:
Melt ghee in a vessel, and add a few drops of iodine to it. If it starts turning purple, then it has been adulterated with starch and shouldn’t be consumed.

2) With HCl:
Melt ghee in a test tube carefully and add an equal amount of concentrated HCl to it. Further, add a pinch of sugar and mix the test tube. If the ghee is adulterated, a pinkish-red substance will appear at the bottom of the test tube. This usually happens when ghee has been adulterated with rancid or vanaspati ghee.

At Mandeshi Agro, offering pure and the best quality products to our customers is our only motto. No adulteration, no mixing of false ingredients. Everything is 100% pure,natural and organic.

Here are some varieties of ghee offered by Mandeshi Agro:

A2 Pure Desi Cow Ghee
Pure Desi Cultured Cow Ghee
Pure Danedar Cow Ghee

At Mandeshi Agro, it’s our sole guarantee that our ghee is 100% pure. Is yours? To know more why ghee should be a part of your diet, read our blog on the benefits of ghee.

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