In our country, 200,000 kg of ghee is used during Diwali alone and at this time there is competition in the market to buy ghee and in this situation some people also sell adulterated ghee. When encountering such a situation, you need to be wary of whether you are eating fake ghee? Aaj Tak inspects two one-liter jars of ghee. Both the jars have the name of Amul company written on them, both jars have pure design ghee written on them, both jars have real ghee written on them and both jars have QR code written on them. When you go to the market to buy ghee, these two containers are not there, so there is a chance that you will get fake ghee to take home.
How dangerous is fake ghee?
First thing you should know is how dangerous is fake ghee? Our team sent samples of this fake ghee to a laboratory in Delhi for testing, and the findings revealed that the fake ghee contained less than 0.1% ghee. This ghee is not real ghee at all and it is wrong to call it fake ghee. Fake ghee refers to ghee that contains part real ghee and the rest adulterated, but according to this laboratory report, there is absolutely no trace of ghee in the fake ghee sold under the name of Amul. .
Fake ghee can cause many serious diseases
Real ghee does not contain hydrogenated fats. But some parts of this FAT are found in fakes and this FAT is very dangerous for heart patients, it is trans fat and can cause many serious diseases. In addition to this, pure Indian ghee does not contain vegetable fat, but this fake ghee also contains this vegetable fat, which is the vegetable fat that causes heart disease and type 2 diabetes. .
Apart from this, the investigation also found that genuine ghee definitely contains elements like myristic acid and stearic acid, and if these elements are not present in any ghee, then it cannot be ghee. Neither of these two elements are found in this ghee, which indicates that it is not actually fake ghee.
What does Amul say?
Amul company said that the box in which this ghee was sold was used three years ago and in order to save people from fake ghee, Amul company changed the packaging of real ghee, but the business people were too smart and they started. Sell ​​lubricants and other things with the chemical aroma of real ghee in old containers. Let me tell you that among the packaged ghee currently sold in the Indian market, Amul’s ghee has a share of 20%.
How big is the ghee market in India?
Fake ghee in Hathras costs Rs 240-260 per kg, while standard desi ghee costs Rs 500-700 per kg. The ghee market size in India is 3.32 billion rupees (2023), and by 2032, the ghee market size will reach 6.9 billion rupees.
Ajitak conducts sting operation
Our Special Investigation Team (SIT) reached Hathras in Uttar Pradesh as a retail shop owner from Delhi and met Vishnu Varshney, a big supplier of ghee. We made a request to buy ghee in bulk in view of the festival and he assured us that he could package the ghee for us in fake boxes from branded companies. The supplier, Vishnu Varshney, agreed to supply us with packaged ghee from a large and well-known company at a price of Rs 240 per kg, while the company’s standard ghee is usually sold at Rs 600 per kg.
Fake ghee smells like real ghee
Vishnu refused to tell us how and where he made this ghee, but he went into his house and brought a sample to show us. The sample Vishnu showed us looked like ghee and smelled like real ghee, but it was actually a mixture of vegetable and refined oils with the essence of ghee added to it. We tried to show him that we liked his ghee sample. Thereafter, he showed the fake box of amul to pack his ghee. We asked him again if he had other brands of cans, and he said he didn’t have any at the moment, but would arrange it.
(Enter – Abhishek Kumar)
