Ghee ( clarified Butter ) Are we consuming fake Products ? :O
- 7015
- 84
-
- Last Comment
This post is regarding ghee which is considered as one of the most essential thing in Indian kitchen so today i went to the nearby kirana store and we had a little discussion about ghee and what he said made me worried i asked him which ghee is the best among the leading brands ( Amul, mother dairy, Britannia, patanjali) . He said all the brand have the same stuff and he said all the brands with in the range of 400 – 600 are not giving real ghee . then asked him what do you mean ? he said if you go to village and get real ghee it costs 1200 to 1700 per kg so it is impossible for these brands to give real ghee in 500 and then he gave his logic he said india is the biggest market for ghee and to meet the demand palm oil is mixed in the ghee then he said there are not enough cows to produce milk and then convert into ghee and according to him even the milk we are drinking is not real milk .
please give your opinions about this please
- Sort By
True, the sad part is that this adulteration is completely legal, and done with guidelines from FSSAI, we are feeding our population hollow diet
WTH? In my ancestral village its available for Rs 600/kg. Little to no chance of adulteration as its used for religious purposes.
Edit : This was the price 2 years ago.
Religious reasons can’t always mean that the ghee is pure bro, in cities temples mostly use branded ghee (which by all means is “adulterated”)
For religious purpose, the main need is not the nutritional value of ghee but its purity in terms of no contact with humans before use
@suman1520 so what are we consuming then ?
Found this from random search -
Synthetic milk is not milk but an artificial imitation of natural milk with a high degree of adulteration to increase the volume of milk and thereby the profit. Main components of synthetic milk are water, pulverized detergent or soap, sodium hydroxide, vegetable oil, salt and urea. Most of these components such as urea, neutralizers and detergents are very harmful to human health. Presently the preparation of synthetic milk is practiced at village level but it is steadily spreading to urban areas in various Indian states.
Ghar ka ghee is the best! Good for health and great taste as well.
No Wonder Village people are stronger and well built compared to city and metro population.
Full cream milk packets are not that much adulterated. The curd prepared from full cream packets taste good. The ghee also good.
Standard and low fat milk packets are prepared using the milk powder. The curd will not taste good, and there wont be any ghee left in that curd.
Amul is actually a group of diaries. One of them is in my city i have been there and seen at first hand that there was no mixing of oil or something like that.
Also the factory is always open for tourists to visit, maybe it is only limited to this factory so can’t say for all.
No way
How much litre milk will make 1kg ghee.
Calculate.
Its just not possible @ 400
Firstly the cow milk we get is of hybrid quality. ( USELESS )
DESI GIR COWS or similar cows are now found in very little number as they give less milk and thus commercially not viable.
In villages also like dairy and everywhere Jersey cow has taken place for its commercial point of view.
The ghee and oil specially marketed in name of pooja items nowadays is poison and highly adultered .
Not to mention , even animal fat and the greasy fat from dead animal bones is extracted by boiling process and mixed in them.
Yes bhai. It is a problem. People are doing compromise between quality and quantity.
Don’t Use Patanjali , Jhatu in Taste & Quality 
Nandini from Karnataka is the best brand for ghee.
While I can’t say whether better brands exist elsewhere but undoubtedly its very good. But the quality of the milk w.r.t. its fat content keeps going down unfortunately.
Aree bhai i am talking about commercial viability.
Not about if someone is making 1/2 kg or 1Kg ghee and selling for Rs. 400 or Rs 200 Or giving it out as free. Please do read the topic of the thread and my comment also.
What someone is doing at home etc etc is not the concern here.
Well where my relatives live in a village in uttrakhand pure home made ghee is readily available at ₹600/l.
European countries like Poland, Denmark etc have excess milk production and it is 100% organic. Cow owners there sell off their cows because there is nobody to buy their milk.
Unko India me basne ke liye bolo… 
I remember once when I subscribed for Country delight they gave us a kit to test milk quality, never tried it though. Wish there was something similar for Ghee
Guys is their any method that can be performed at home to check whether the ghee is pure or not?
What you came to know about this now? Lol. Anyone really thinks those mother dairy, amul etc. milk packets actually contain real milk? Eh. Ghee should also be same.
If one wants real milk, try to get a hold of someone who has cows and want to sell some milk. You’ll be lucky in that way. And if you have the provision or space or mentality/patience then just buy a damn cow and drink as much as you want and make as much ghee as you need.
It’s not for the lack of cows or the availability of milk by the way. In remote places plenty cows are still available and not enough people to consume whole the milk anyway. So just like with anything in this nation, it’s just unethical, bad practice.
You’ll also be lucky if only palm oil is mixed into the ghees. They were selling Caracas meat, dog meat in the name of chicken for nearly a decade. Just use some common sense, which is most lacking from the Indians.
Yes these ghee are cheaper but that do not mean these are impure or adulterated LOL 
Actually the ghee made at home is prepared in this way – milk used to prepare curd then after bilona method we get 2 products from that curd – buttermilk and white butter. then boil white butter and get ghee. This ghee obviously costs higher because in this way we get less ghee and the another product buttermilk is not sold most of the times or sold at lower rates. BUT this is the ghee anyone will wish for and this is the ancient method to get ghee.
While Industries process full fat milk and remove fat/cream from it and then from that fat they make ghee. in this process they do not waste anything as the skimmed milk or toned milk is further sold in market which have less fat. So this way it costs cheaper than bilona ghee (curd method).
however some cheap brands mix oils in it so just beware of them. and for real taste of ghee always look for ghee process by bilona method.
In villages people sell it for 600-700rs per kg but only get it from trusted people.
One more thing if you are looking for cow ghee then always go for A2 variant (desi cow).
Foreign breed cow ghee is useless and nowhere near the taste and benefits of A2 ghee.
+1, I have visited kmf ( Karnataka milk federation) who make nandini milk and product personally and have seen the whole process from milking the cow to getting the products and by products. Not at one step human hand touches the product, even milking the cow. The industry have certain standards. Milk is also tested by various means at their lab only after that it is approved for further steps. It is just excess fat is removed and added later on depending upon the type of product.
And i can surely say other states milk federation also does the same like amul and etc.
The pure ghee from village will definitely have more fat as it is not removed by any process nothing more than that. People are misguiding and looting in name of organic and pure now.
On the other hand it is also undeniable that some people are using the fake branding of reputed companies to sell adulterated product, one have to be careful in buying.
I am from village. We have cows and Buffalo. We selling pure ghee in 500(Buffalo) and cow ghee rate is 550 per kg (It’s 1000 gram in market you get 910 gram/ 1 ltr )
Bangalore or Delhi delivery possible ?
He is ab-100-loot-ly right. I went to Ludhiana few days back and similar story was there from a wholesale milk vendor/dairy farm, who has around 2700 Buffaloes and 1200 cows at his unit. He said, the demand is for 100 and we have milk for 45 only in Punjab. So rest 55%, which is shocking, is fulfilling through adulteration and he said pure milk or ghee is not good for health. So even if some says Pure, it means 20% adulteration is still there. If you making ghee you require atleast 20 liters of milk which costs like 700 from dairy farms and adding stuff like energy cost and labor + taxes, Rs.1200 is normal.Recently palm oil prices shoot up and here all ghee vendors increased per kg by Rs.100. So you don’t need proof palm oil is being used.
Better to use old method of preparing at home. Use every drop of milk.
The only closest thing to pure ghee I bought was priced at 1100 per kg (glass jar) and 900 (plastic jar).
But bcz of the price, I don’t buy it often, only buy when I
can clubbed cashback offers 😅
I know this thread is about ghee but i think all these european olive oil sold in india are 100% fake. The one I bought from a store and the recently purchased online didn’t match the features stated online facts site and videos!
I’m so pissed that Indian govt is letting such crap to be sold here to us! Not to mention horlicks for kids and maggi despite repeated alarming reports from Indian doctors.
Why can’t our country be strict on food quality check like others for God’s sake?!!
How can I trust on my self made ghee at home, because if the milk, I bought is synthetic then how the ghee which I made is pure?
My question is, can synthetic milk produce ghee with the same method of home made.
Arre, gayein/bhans ne hi milaawati chaara khaya ho to doodh asli kaise hoga to ghee bhi shuddh nahi ho sakta… 
isnt mother dairy cow ghee is good also patanjali cow ghee one is fine too
This seems to be too good to be true. Over the last year or so extracting the butter had become a tedious task as sometimes it would take hours of churning. So we had switched to mostly buying Nandini ghee to meet our needs. The ever decreasing fat content of the milk sold could be a contributing factor. Anyway gonna add sugar the next time to see if it indeed makes a difference or not.
i have recently switched to not using refined oils so primarily use ghee and mustard oil,
among ghee, I used 3 brands, aashirwad cow ghee, mother dairy ghee, mother dairy cow ghee
the one that I found better among these 3 was the aashirwad one, mother dairy one was just not so good in smell and taste
can someone suggest some other ghee that is not so costly and is less/no adultered?
try govardhan or pantanjali only these i found good
see ghee is pure mostly above 550 mrp , govardhan mrp is 585 for 1l in villages it cost 600 as they make in bulk and in factories automation is there so cost reduces there, paras like ghee are fake
We make ghee at home from skimmed milk. In case of shortage, I order from sri sri sri tattava, because of sri ravishankar, i belive that brand. This ghee is made from cow milk and taste is good.
 Are we consuming fake Products ? :O for Rs. at ){kind=link}
Shopkeeper was correct…India produces less milk than it needs…
Better make ghee at home