You are what you eat

The concrete was wrapped in paper to prevent it from making suspicious noise when the nut was shaken. The vendor who sold the walnuts was trying to make more profit by selling these fake nuts that were heavier and “nothing”.

Some unscrupulous companies in China were found to produce and make tons of money by selling fake eggs. They look almost like the real thing, slimy before cooking and turns like cooked eggs when cooked. A fake hard-boiled egg can actually bounce when you throw it, like a rubber ball. These fake eggs are made of gelatin, artificial food coloring, water and encased in a wax egg shell.

Apparently, the rice is made by mixing potatoes with a synthetic industrial resin which can be deadly. According to unfortunate victims who ate the rice, it stayed fairly firm even after being cooked extensively, and was hard to digest, causing many stomach problems. Burn the rice using a matchstick and see if you smell plastic burning. Or drop the rice into boiling hot oil and see if it dissolves into the oil.

ome vendors have sold pork meat as beef by chemically altering the beef with a “beef extract”, and then glazing them to look like beef. All done in a 90-minute process. Doctors have advised people to stay away from this fake beef as its consumption may cause slow poisoning, deformity and even cancer!

Chinese food sellers are adding chemicals to meat from rats, minks, and foxes and selling them as mutton. The scheme was so popular and successful that the police arrested more than 900 people and seized about 20,000 tons of this meat, all within three months.

There are two types of counterfeit honey: the adulterated one, which is a mixture of real honey and sugar syrup, beetroot syrup, or rice syrup; and the fake honey, which looks very much like real honey that it may be difficult to differentiate them.

Fake green peas were created from snow peas, soy beans, along with green dye and sodium metabisulfite (a chemical that is used as the bleach and preservative). This dye is banned from using on produce because it can cause cancer, as well as inhibit the body’s natural ability to absorb calcium. You can tell these fake green peas that don’t soften when boiled and the water will turn an unnatural green color leached from the food coloring.

Ginseng root is a popular medicinal plant, used as a tonic in China for centuries. Ginseng is a very expensive commodity, pushing many ginseng retailers to figure out a way to keep making profit.
Their solution was to boil the roots in sugar, which makes them heavier and, therefore, they can sell them for more money as the roots are sold by weight.

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