India, June 10 -- Cooking food with pure and fresh ingredients is something that almost all families love to take pride in. But with the increased usage of packaged store-bought products, one is often left to wonder if they are actually getting the stuff that they are paying for.

Adulteration in cooking ingredients is not a new thing by any stretch of the imagination. However, the shift from fresh to powdered spices and other packaged products has likely opened more avenues for adulteration to take place.

Taking to Instagram on April 14, Ahana Nazar Hafis, a Qatar-based food safety officer and content creator, stated, "Food adulteration is the addition of unwanted or foreign substances intentionally or unintentionally to the food." She ...