The tradition of eating and feeding something sweet during the festive season has been there in our country for years. You will also have a craving to eat different types of sweets during festivals. There is a practice of making different sweets in most Indian homes. Those who do not make sweets in their homes, bring sweets from the market.
But this tradition has been poisoned for the past several years. We have also been raising this issue in DNA. We have shown many times how rampant adulteration is done in the sweets found in the markets. There is no guarantee that every dessert available in the market will be pure.
Most sweets require milk products to make them. Especially in making sweets, mawa made from milk is used. Imagine if you have brought fake mawa to your house, then no matter how much pure dessert you try to make from it, it will remain poisonous.
Inflation is a factor in the demand-supply game. But in the game of demand and supply in the festive season, adulteration has become a big fear. In a recent sting operation conducted by Zee, it was discovered that markets are selling three different types of mawa to meet the demand of the market.
The pure formula for making mawa is milk. But during the festival season, when the demand for sweets increases, more than vanaspati ghee, milk powder is added to making mawa. Markets are using 50 percent milk and 50 percent powder to make mawa to meet the rising demand, reducing the quality of the sweets.
Low-quality milk powder is used to mix and make mawa of lower quality, in order to produce quintals of the product. This mixture of low-quality milk powder is extremely harmful to your health and can prove to be poison if ingested in large quantities.
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