Recently, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Centre of Analysis and Learning in Livestock and Food (CALF) has confirmed that the ghee used to make laddus offered to devotees as prasadam at the famous Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh contains animal fats and fish oil.
Chandrababu Naidu Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh had alleged that the previous YSR government had used animal fat and substandard ingredients in making the Tirupati laddus. A report by NDDB CALF has now found that the samples of the ghee used in making Tirupati laddus contained foreign fat, including palm oil, fish oil, beef tallow and lard.
