Volume : VIII, Issue : XII, December - 2019

HARMFUL COLOUR IN GUJARATI FOOD : A PUBLIC AWARENESS ARTICLE.

Mr. Karan J. Yagnik

Abstract :

Many of food are yummy and attractive but dangerous to our health due to their artificial colour. The food safety and standards authority of India has prescribed, accepted daily intake limit of 100mg/Kg. but half of the Gujarati food products exceeded this limit. Our eakfast, tomato ketchup, fruit juice, soft drink etc. are loaded with synthetic colours. These colours must be purified up to food grade but that may or may not be in Guajarati food. Impurities have a deleterious effect on our health and are also carcinogenic in nature. Even some the non–permitted colours are used by local food production. Types of colours and its permitted limit with our popular food items are discussed. There are more governing bodies for food colouring regulation like food & drug departments for state local governing bodies like Municipal Corporation But due to lake of our system and huge number to look after, It is almost impossible to find out and to punish guilty. Artificial food colouring was originally manufactured from coal tar, now those are from petroleum. Final products are rigorously tested to make sure they contain no traces of the original petroleum.

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HARMFUL COLOUR IN GUJARATI FOOD : A PUBLIC AWARENESS ARTICLE., Mr. Karan J. Yagnik PARIPEX-INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-12 | December-2019

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