Buckwheat Flour: Is buckwheat flour adulterated during the Navratri fast? This is how you can identify the real and fake flour..
- byShikha Srivastava
- 28 Mar, 2025
Chaitra Navratri 2025: The Navratri festival is celebrated with great pomp in India. This time Chaitra Navratri is starting from 30th March. During this, Goddess Durga is worshipped for the entire 9 days. Devotees keep a fast for 9 days to please the Goddess. Special care is taken of food and drink during the fast. Some people keep fast by eating only fruits, while some eat full meals.

If there is one thing that is eaten the most during fasting, it is kuttu ka atta puri. It not only gives you energy but is also very good for the stomach. It is very easy to digest. In such a situation, when the demand for something increases, then adulterated goods start being sold in the market. If you also eat adulterated (tips to check pure kuttu atta) flour, then you can suffer a lot of losses. While buying it, attention should be paid to the quality. Let us know what harm can be caused to health by eating adulterated buckwheat flour (How to Identify Real vs Fake). How can its purity be checked? Let us know in detail-
Disadvantages of eating adulterated buckwheat flour
Eating adulterated buckwheat flour can cause digestive problems. Gas in the stomach, indigestion, and acidity can increase your trouble.
If rice or other things have been mixed in the flour, then there can be allergies and itching in the body.
Real buckwheat flour is low-glycemic, but adulterated flour contains more carbohydrates which can increase the sugar level rapidly.
A pure and nutritious diet is necessary during fasting, but adulterated flour is not able to provide proper nutrition to the body. This can cause weakness or fatigue.
Check purity like this.
Whenever you buy buckwheat flour, first of all, check its color. The color of adulterated kuttu flour changes. The color of real kuttu flour is brown.
While buying flour, smell it. If it is adulterated, it will smell bad.
If the flour is falling apart while kneading or is becoming too greasy, then understand that it may be adulterated.
Keep these things in mind while buying flour.

Always buy flour from branded companies.
While buying flour, check the packaging and label.
Keep an eye on the price as well.
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