When you buy cow ghee online, you can’t open the jar and smell it. You read the label, look at the photographs and decide how much of it to believe. Even if you could take a sniff, aroma wouldn’t tell you how much milk fat is inside or whether the ghee contains something it shouldn’t.

An independent laboratory can check those things. AGSS Analytical and Research Lab, based in Delhi’s Lawrence Road Industrial Area, tested a sample of Madhuramrat desi cow ghee from batch 00166. Its report, issued on 22 July 2026, is 13 pages long. Here are the findings you’d actually want explained before buying a jar.

How much milk fat did it contain?

99.84%. The minimum for ghee shown in the report is 99.5%, so the tested sample was above it.

The lab also measured 0.16% moisture, meaning the water left in the finished ghee. That was below the maximum of 0.5%. Taken together, the results show that this sample met the stated requirements for milk fat and moisture. The 99.84% figure is a milk-fat measurement, rather than a score someone invented for the word “pure.” 

Those numbers are useful because colour can be persuasive. A deep yellow jar or a grainy texture may catch your eye, but neither can tell you its milk-fat percentage.

Did the lab find signs of other oils?

AGSS checked for particular signs of adulteration. Mineral oil was absent, as was a marker the lab uses when checking for added vegetable oils. Another adulteration test came back negative. The report also examined the characteristics of the ghee’s fat in several ways, and those readings were within the ranges shown beside them.

You don’t need to remember the names of those tests. What matters while choosing pure cow ghee is that the lab looked beyond appearance and smell. It did not find the particular signs of adulteration those checks were designed to catch in this sample.

What about things you cannot see at all?

The lab checked for many pesticide residues, heavy metals, melamine and selected veterinary-drug residues. Across those results, you’ll see BLQ.

That means below limit of quantification: the amount was below the level at which the lab could give a reliable number. It doesn’t mean “absolute zero”. It means the listed substances did not reach the measuring threshold of their respective tests in the sample.

What does this mean when you’re choosing ghee?

If you’re comparing desi ghee, bilona ghee or two jars with very different ghee prices, you probably care about more than one thing. Where did the milk come from? How was the ghee made? And what ended up in the jar?

Madhuramrat uses milk from indigenous cattle raised at Hasanand Gochar Bhumi Trust. The lab report answers the question about the finished ghee. For the sample from batch 00166, it recorded 99.84% milk fat, 0.16% moisture, no signs on its specified adulteration checks, and listed residues below the lab’s measuring limits.

The results belong to that tested sample. They give you something concrete to look at when a jar says “pure ghee”: Cow_Ghee_Lab_Report.pdf.

FAQs

Who tested Madhuramrat’s ghee?
AGSS Analytical and Research Lab in Delhi tested a sample from batch 00166. The lab issued its report on 22 July 2026.

What does 99.84% milk fat mean?
That was the milk fat measured in the sample. It’s above the 99.5% minimum shown in the report—not a made-up “purity score.”

Did the lab find signs of adulteration?
Its mineral oil and plant-sterol checks found none, and another adulteration test was negative. Those findings apply to the sample and the checks the lab performed.

What does BLQ mean?
It means the amount was too low for the lab to measure reliably. It doesn’t mean absolute zero.

Does the report cover every jar?
The results are for the tested sample from batch 00166. Other batches may have different results.