Immediately recognize 7 types of counterfeit foods that are most at risk

With this whole set of tricks, you will not turn into a "donkey" bought by nose salespeople who need to "fake" food!

Many cases of fake foods such as fake rice, fake meat, fake eggs . have recently been uncovered, causing public opinion to be alarmed and worried about food safety.

What's more worrisome is, these phishing foods have a very sophisticated appearance - so real that if you're not observant, you'll be hard to tell.

But be assured, with the whole set of tips below, you will easily distinguish "fake" items with just the look - touch - straightening!

1. Meatballs made from cassava pulp

Meat flakes (scrub cotton) are popular items, popular with many people because of their convenience. But many people just for the sake of the short term, but did not hesitate to use cassava pulp with sweet flour, flavoring, coloring . to "transform" into a genuine dish to deceive consumers.

According to experts, eating cassava pulp will interfere with the absorption of nutrition, digestive disorders causing poisoning. Children who eat this substance will reduce the absorption of calcium, zinc . leading to malnutrition.

The fake scoop has a strange or sweet taste because of aromas and monosodium glutamate.

Therefore, you should be alert and attentive when buying the crab. In particular, the fake scraper made from cassava pulp is usually colored thanks to the pale, pale color. When added to water, they will be soft and fast, gradually turning from yellow to white, like kudzu. Fake fake yarn is big, rounder and fluffy, as spongy as real.

When eating, fake puffs have a strange or sweet taste because of flavoring, monosodium glutamate, impregnated foo, not the sweet taste of meat. In particular , the more stringy chewy fibers that are chewed, the longer it becomes.

2. Fake rice made from plastic

Rice is a staple food in Asian diets. Those who thought this was a food that no one thought about counterfeiting but the truth was "more devastating" than that.

A few years ago, Singaporean media smashed hope when reporting on a fake rice discovered in Shaanxi, China.

Fake rice is also added with polymer to increase the hardness of real rice varieties.

Accordingly, this type of rice is made from a mixture of sweet potatoes and potatoes - then molded into a shape of the same size as a grain of rice.

They are also added with polymer to increase hardness to look like "raw si" real rice.

Experts say this type of rice affects the human digestive system by very difficult to digest polymer.

Fake rice seeds are usually longer than real rice.Three bowls of rice made from plastic rice would be equivalent to "cup" a plastic bag.

Fortunately, this type of rice is quite easy to detect. You only need to soak the rice for a while, the real rice will sink and swell, but if it is fake rice, it will float up.

Or if you put rice on a frying pan, fake rice under heat will flow out and real rice will ripen and have a characteristic aroma. Besides, fake rice grains are usually longer, much smaller than regular rice, clean white and grain are more regular than normal.

3. Imitation lamb - "transformed" from rat meat and mink meat

We know that meat is a rich and indispensable source of protein in every person's meal. However, you will not be shocked to learn that, only with industrial chemicals such as gelatin, red products, and nitrates combined with rat meat, mink, fox . fake lamb pieces are ready to ship.

Real lamb (left photo) and fake lamb (right photo).

Specifically, after slaughtering mink, mice, people mixed them with red products, flavoring agents, using gelatin to create a layer of fat that looks like lamb.

And also with this formula, people can produce many other types of meat such as duck meat, pork . to deceive consumers.

Fake meat with fat layer is easy to separate.

However, wise housewives can use the following tip to identify the type of fake lamb.Compared to real meat, imitation lamb with fat layer is easy to separate with regular chopsticks , so just a little note can choose the real meat.

4. Fake ink made from rubber

Grilled squid is a favorite dish of many families, especially with gentlemen who like to sit and sip shop. However, squid is also a food that is often counterfeited - mainly using rubber materials.

Squid is a food that is often counterfeited, mainly made from rubber.(Illustration).

Processing ink is made extremely sophisticated when it has the same shape, color, toughness and taste as real ink.

However, if you are observant, you may find that the fake dry ink is smaller in size, the lower part of the dry ink is easily peeled off by sticking with glue.

Touching the fake ink, you feel it is slightly elastic like rubber, while the real ink feels tender . This feeling is even more pronounced when using hand-scissors, fake ink will have elastic properties of rubber.

Fake dry ink is smaller in size.(Illustration).

Observe carefully, the squid does not have natural curling like normal ink, has no squid eyes and natural ink.

In particular, when soaking the fake ink in the water, the white chalk layer will float out, touching the body which is sluggish and the "whole picture" ink is the rubber piece.

5. Pork is in the form of beef

The story of "hanging the head of a boar pig" seems to be an annoyance for many people when they have to pay for beef but it is pork. And even more dangerous if the raw materials for beef imitation such as pork pork, buffalo meat die by chemical impregnation, coloring . also affect many human health.

Pork is marinated in chemicals to turn into beef.(Photo source: Youth).

So what is the difference between real and fake beef? First, you need to observe the piece of meat carefully.True beef is dark pink or reddish, while fake beef is even brighter but still lighter.

The flesh is small and long, fat is light yellow, pork has a big and short grain, it is not smooth and fat in white color. The buffalo meat is dark black, the flesh is big and rough, the fat is white.

True beef will be flexible, dry, less elastic, sticky hands.

Next, lightly press on the piece of meat.True beef will be flexible, dry, less elastic, sticky hands . And fake beef, press your hand to feel soft, friable, there is no feeling of meat sticking to your hand.

When you put your hand into the piece of meat, you will see the color in your hand; sliced, the flesh inside is lighter than the outside, the meat does not stick to the knife and there is water oozing out.

In addition, fake meat often has a fishy smell, not the characteristic odor of beef.

6. Young chicken eggs made from rubber

Young chicken eggs are a very nutritious food and a favorite dish of many people. However, this is also a much-counterfeited food and the selected material is rubber.

Fake chicken eggs are smooth, tough, flexible like rubber.(cut from clip).

At first glance, it's hard to tell what the fake chicken eggs are - it's really sophisticated and delicious. But when you touch the fake egg, you will see that the fake chicken eggs are extremely smooth, flexible like jelly, non-porous yolk and powder like regular eggs.

Fake eggs have extremely good elasticity, light taste, burning.(illustration).

According to experts, if consumers accidentally eat counterfeit foods from this rubber for a long time will lead to memory loss, neurological instability, and brain problems, or cause stomach pain thick, cancer, stomach bleeding .

7. Rubber octopus

It must be recognized that grilled octopus is a favorite of many friends. However, few people suspect, this seemingly easy-to-find dish is also a fake goal of many people.

If you look with the naked eye, bet that you will be hard to tell which is the "auth" row, which is "fake" goods, but just use a knife / scissors to cut these octopus, you can easily already know.

The real octopus has a clear body, the flesh, the beard is not as soft as a soaked noodle.

Specifically, fake octopus is often very tough, bringing up the nose to smell does not see the characteristic fishy smell like the common octopus . In addition, the "fake" octopus is usually white and gray, as pale as a row. The octopus's body is thin and unclear.

The octopus's beard is very long, soft . When baked, octopus will shrink like rubber latex, and there is no taste.

While "fake" goods are pale gray.(illustration).

More frightening, flies don't bother to look at these octopus numbers when placed near the pile. Many experts believe that fake octopus is made of rubber and is impregnated with a strong chemical that makes the "fly-rat fly" like that! Imagine, if we eat fake octopus, what will the body suffer?