Adulteration Study: Revisiting Starch Iodine Reaction Dr. Anand S. Burange Department of Chemistry, Wilson College, Chowpatty, Mumbai anand.burange@wilsoncollege.edu.in ; asgburange@gmail.com In this modern era, young generation is quite busy with their mobiles, laptops and other modern engineering feats for the recreation. They hardly get time to read books and to observe the world around. Lack of knowledge is one of the responsible factors for the degradation of moral values in a society we live. We consume lot of packed foods and sweets especially in India on occasion of various festivals. Do we really bother about the adulteration in variety of food products? In our present work, our undergraduate students purchased variety sweet samples ( Pedha: malai pedha, kesar pedha , etc) from various sweet shops in Mumbai (Area: Nalasopara). And the sweets were further evaluated for the presence of starch as one of the potential adulterants. Typically, slurry ...