Tips for buying fats oils Spices and condiments

Tips for buying fats and oils:

• Oils sold loose, especially mustard oil

• Viscous or very thick and dark oil with suspended impurities

• Nuts and oilseeds/powders with rancid smell

• Insect infested/ mouldy groundnuts.

Tips for buying fats oils Spices and condiments

Tips for buying spices and condiments

• Cottony growth

• Unpleasant odour

• Presence of insects and powder in whole spices, mould growth and artificial /bright colours

• Clumps in ground spices.

Tips for buying pulses and cereals:

• Clumps, musty smell or cottony growth,

• Unpleasant odour

• Stones, dirt

• Insect infestation.