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Just a while ago, the Food Department in Cuttack, Odisha, caught a fake tea company. Fake tea leaves were being made on a large scale and supplied across the country. In such a situation, keeping in mind the danger to your health, here we are telling you how to identify fake tea leaves.
Adulterated tea leaves may be broken. It may also contain grass, stones or dirt. Apart from this, it may also contain many harmful artificial colors or flavors which can cause many serious diseases to you.
Learn from lemon juice: Pour the juice of a lemon into a glass bowl and add some tea leaves. If the lemon juice turns yellow or green after a few minutes, then it is real. If the tea leaves are fake, then the lemon juice turns orange. Only then will you be able to differentiate between real and fake.
Identify by leaf color: Real tea leaves are green, red and black in colour; fake tea leaves may be light or dull in colour.
Identify by the color of the water: Adulterated tea leaves have adulterated colors added to them. To identify the tea leaves, dip them in cold water. If it leaves any other color, then it is assumed that the tea leaves are fake because real tea leaves leave color only after boiling in water.
