Kazi Milenur Rahman Prattay, Md Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury, Md Raihan Sarkar, Tanvir Rahman, Sharmin Zaman Emon, Abrar Hossain, Hredoy Ghosh Rajib, Md Abdurrahim
Present study investigates 39 brands of candies, chocolate, and litchis, purchased from Dhaka City, Bangladesh, for their moisture content, sulphated ash value, heavy metal, and bacterial contamination. All the brands showed moisture content (0.64%-4.775%) within the BSTI range, but sulphated ash values (18.80%-25.72%) were beyond the accepted value. Pb, Cd, Ni, and Cr ranged from 0.24-2.40 μ g/g, 0.071-0.44 μ g/g, 0.38-48.10 μ g/g, and 0.50-12.79 μ g/g, respectively, in the tested brands...
2024: International Journal of Food Science