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First of all, you must remember, tea is one of the rare natural edible items, which does not not go through any chemical during its manufacturing. Tea is always pure in the tea garden or in the manufacturing unit. No colour or any outside substance is mixed with tea in the factory. We strictly recommend DO NOT mix any colour with tea.

FSSAI, a Govt body for food safety has put guidelines for mixing permissible chemicals on specific foods like sweets, fruit juice, soft drinks, ice cream etc. FSSAI 2011 regulation 2.10.1 (1) on Tea clearly states that “The product shall be free from extraneous matter, added colouring matter and harmful substances” That means tea colouring is illegal. Some businessmen mix Bismark Brown, Potassium Blue, Turmeric, Indigo, Plumbago, etc to make preferred tea color or to look like blooming tea. Low-quality tea or used tea are mixed with colour to look it fresh and enhance its price. Generally, Black Lead or Plumbago, काला सीसा in Hindi, lead used in pencil is mixed with used or very low-quality tea to make it attractive. But this extra colour does not enhance its quality. Mixing pencil lead or other colouring substance is actually easy. They just buy it in dry form and mix it with at the ratio of 95 tea:5 Coloring substance. Lower the quality of tea then higher the number of colouring ingredients. Moreover, drinking lead cannot be good for health. Above all, cheating and deception even on cheapest drinks, is highly inappropriate and illegal. Prussian blue, turmeric or indigo are also used to colour tea. Out of these, Prussian blue is decidedly toxic. To find out if the tea has been dyed or not, just take little tea in your hand and rub it vigorously between your fingers. If it leaves a stain on your fingers, be sure that it was coloured and be extremely sure to leave the tea with shop keeper. Further report this adulteration to the food safety department. Similarly, if you put adulterated tea in a normal cup of cold water, you will find the water has become tea coloured within seconds. On the other hand, pure tea needs brewing to disperse colour, or longer time, like 5 to 15 minutes to throw out its natural colour. Always remember, colouring of tea is illegal and may bring penal action. SO DO NOT DO IT. www.assamteasellers.in