Tirupati Laddu Beef Tallow Controversy: The debate over beef in the country is very old. But this time the matter is about the alleged use of substandard ingredients and animal fat in the prasad of the world famous Tirupati temple. In fact, the ruling Telugu Desam Party claimed last Thursday that the Gujarat-based livestock laboratory has confirmed adulteration. TDP spokesperson Anam Venkat Ramana Reddy showed the alleged lab report in a press conference, which confirmed the presence of "beef tallow" in the given ghee sample. Today we will tell you what beef tallow is.
What is beef tallow?
Now the question is what is beef tallow and what is this whole matter. First let us understand what the matter is. Let us tell you that Andhra Pradesh Congress President YS Sharmila has written on the social media platform X that 'Chandrababu Naidu's comment that he has used animal oil instead of ghee in Laddu Prasadam as CM. This is harmful to the sanctity and prestige of Tirumala. At the same time, Venkatesh, the deity of crores of Hindus, has been tarnished. We demand from CM Chandrababu Naidu that if there is no political dimension in your allegations, if you have no intention of politicizing emotions, immediately a high level committee should be formed or the CBI should investigate.
Now the question is what is beef tallow. Let us tell you that beef tallow is basically made of beef fat. It contains fat extracted from beef pieces like rump roast, ribs, and steaks. It can also be made by melting pure fat extracted from meat, which turns into a flexible substance when cooled. It looks similar to soft butter at room temperature.
Beef tallow used in Tirupati Balaji's laddu: Let us tell you that laddu prasad is prepared in Tirupati temple. Every day 3 lakh laddus are made and distributed here. Beef fat, animal fat and fish oil have been mixed in the laddus. All this is mixed in the ghee from which the laddus are prepared. Not only this, these laddus have not only been distributed to the devotees as prasad, but these laddus have also been offered to God as prasad.
After this, people are worried about whether the ghee they are eating is adulterated or not. Many tips are being shared on the internet to identify real and fake ghee. If you are buying packaged ghee from the market, then you can find out from its packet what is mixed in it. So let us tell you what is the meaning of the things written on the packet?
How to check whether Packet ghee is vegetarian or not
- Whatever packaged item you buy, it is written in it that what ingredients have been used to make it. Whether you are buying a packet of ghee or a box of ghee. Today we are talking about ghee. Whenever you buy a box of ghee, there will be a table behind it, in which you can see what is in this ghee and what it means.
- Generally 5 information is written on the packet of ghee on the level of nutrition, which includes energy, protein, carbohydrate, sugar, vitamin, fat. It has about 900 calories and the value of carbohydrate, protein, sugar is zero. But, it contains the most fat and about 99.7 percent in 100 grams. There is some amount of vitamins.
- At the same time, it is written on the box for the ingredients that it is completely made of milk fat. That means only milk fat has been used to make ghee. In such a situation, whether there is adulteration in the packet or not, its information cannot be found through the information written on the packet. Whatever adulteration is done with things like beef tallow, it is not mentioned. You can find out from other things what effect this ghee will have on your health.
- Many packets of ghee have cow ghee written on them and the companies claim that this ghee is made by processing cow's milk. Agmark license is given on the basis of RM value for cow ghee. Generally, Agmark license is given only in the category of ghee.
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