Fake Chinese Foods That May Actually Kill You

In recent years, China has impressed the world with its rapid technological advances with breakthroughs in quantum computing and the successful cultivation of plants on the far side of the Moon, but there is another side to Chinese ingenuity that you may not have heard about in the last decade: reports of counterfeits. Food has skyrocketed, that's true, criminals are making money, sometimes literally selling cheap and dangerous imitations of everyday

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since China's economy opened to the global market in 1978. Its government has struggled to enforce food standards. security in all these new private companies. The scary thing that could happen here is also this: 10 Chinese Foods That Could Kill You and How to Spot Them.

Number 10: concrete nuts first. A

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food that is easy to detect nuts. Imagine you are walking through a Chinese farmers market and you see a stall. By selling fresh nuts still in their shells, you take your purchases home, where you open the shelves and find stones. That's right, it's not unusual for unscrupulous street vendors to maximize their profits by cracking open the shells, removing the edible nut kernels, and replacing them with concrete pebbles. Then he glues the shell back on and sells the

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nuts to unsuspecting customers. Not only would the concrete break your teeth if you accidentally ate one, but there's no telling what else could be in there.

This trick doubles the sellers profits, they sell both the nut and the worthless cement-filled shells and since the nuts are sold by weight, the heavy concrete-filled shells add up quickly, so if you are in China and have Want to buy some nuts, the fake variety can usually be detected by a subtle line of glue on the shell. outside and maybe open a few to try before you buy no honest seller would care about industrial salt number nine, not even seasonings are safe. Market traders in China have been caught trying to pass off flour and ground dried mud as white and black pepper, but at least that won't

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you, fake salt in China can harm more than just your blood pressure, that's what Because both restaurants and counterfeits are known to use industrial salt as a cheaper alternative to table salt, although they look similar, the two are not. means that industrial exchangeable salt is typically used to clean machinery or to make products such as paper and tire bleach, unlike regular table salts, the industrial variety causes cancer and damages the liver and kidneys when consumed by humans, If the salt you're eating tastes fishy, ​​it's probably worth it. file a complaint, but because government regulations are looser in China, counterfeits and opportunists can get away with tricking customers into eating these often dangerous fake number eight rotten rice noodles, it's the Lunch time, you're starving and can't wait to eat a big plate. of rotten food, that's what you could get if you go to the wrong restaurant during your vacation in China, when most people find rotten food their first instinct is to throw it away, but some enterprising Chinese factories have found a way to profit from your rotten grain by using it to make rice noodles Regular rice noodles are made from a simple combination of ground rice flour and water, but the fake variety requires a little processing to disguise its rotten smell and mimic the color of the noodles. fresh.

They often take spoiled rice and other grains. Things intended for animal feed are bleached and mixed with sulfur dioxide and other chemical additives. They will need many msg for them to taste good. The seven false peas. Next up is the seemingly innocent green pea of ​​2010 in central China. Local officials in the city of Changsha became suspicious of some of the vegetables being sold at a local farmers market. The public had reported that even after boiling them for 20 minutes, the peas were still rock hard, and worse still, the water had turned a bright shade of green. It turns out that these green impostors were

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old dried peas and soybeans that had been soaked in a toxic mixture of food coloring and sodium metabisulfate, a bleach-like preservative to make them appear plump and fresh.

The green dye mixed into fake peas is illegal for use with food because it can cause cancer, but that didn't stop these criminals. Hey, at least now you have a good excuse not to eat your number six veggies, meat bocus, you may have tried some of those tofu meat alternatives that your vegan friend swears he knows. Just like real meat, well the Chinese version is a little different on more than one occasion, Chinese police have caught criminal rings passing off unadulterated pork as beef, pound for pound, the meat of Beef is more expensive than pork, so they can make quick profits.

In one case, in the northern province of Shanxi, authorities confiscated 20,000 kilograms of pork that had been soaked in paraffin wax, industrial salts and other deadly chemicals to make the meat look like beef. Not only is meat dangerous to consume, but there are also religious and ethical risks. Implications to consider: 20 million Muslims live in China and their Islamic faith prohibits them from consuming pork, so if any of them unknowingly ate the fake meat, they violated their religious rules against their will, those hot Vegan dogs don't sound so bad after all. Number five, fake honey, honey is packed with vitamins, enzymes and antioxidants, it's full of energy and can boost your immune system.

Well, real honey does it anyway, the adulterated version is cut with corn syrup, water and sugar and often contains unauthorized pesticides that should never go away. near a bowl of oatmeal Surprisingly, in some cases, this fake honey has made it to American shelves because it was imported from China with false labels In a dramatic case of honey laundering, two American companies, Honey Solutions and Grove Farms, were caught deliberately importing two million dollars. mislabeled honey to the US to try to avoid detection Suspicious honey made in China was shipped through Vietnam to try to disguise its origins, but traffickers of counterfeit honey found themselves in a sticky situation when the FDA caught red-handed.

I call it a sting operation because both versions are so sweet that it can be difficult for regular consumers to distinguish between the real and the fake. The best way to ensure you don't pay for glorified sugar water instead of natural honey. Buy raw local honey. so you can trace where it came from and avoid buying the product in bulk from unknown Amazon or eBay sellers. Duck blood number 4. Now you might wonder why anyone would bother counterfeiting something as unappetizing as duck blood. Well, this is China. Remember that in Jiangsu province. East Coast Duck Blood Soup is a coveted delicacy prized for its delicious flavor and silky texture.

To make the soup, duck blood is heated until it freezes into a tofu-like consistency, about as unappetizing as real duck blood sounds to most American and European palates. It is definitely preferable to the counterfeit version prepared by an enterprising criminal: he bought vats of cheap cow and sheep blood from a local slaughterhouse and boiled it in his house until it freezes, while that in itself is dishonest and illegal. . The worst was the formaldehyde added to preserve. blood is a dangerous chemical that can easily

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if consumed in high enough doses when police raided his home they found him surrounded by animal parts hunched over a boiling pot in a room that officials described as overflowing with blood wow number three fake rice this is another strange attempt to produce something that is already cheap, even cheaper, fake rice, if you are lucky, the fake rice you bought is made of many small pieces of rolled up paper, unappetizing, yes, without any nutrition, yes, toxic, well, no, I guess not, but If you're unlucky in China and other Asian nations, you might end up buying things made of synthetic resin shaped like individual grains of rice.

Synthetic resin is simply plastic and can be produced incredibly cheaply during the recycling process. The Korea Times reported that eating three bowls of this fake plastic rice is equivalent to eating an entire grocery bag. Clever criminals mix real rice grains with fake grains to make it much harder to tell that something is wrong, and there have been reports of fake rice being exported to other countries. As far away as Nigeria, an easy way to tell the difference is to fry raw rice and if it browns, it's the real thing, but if it melts and smells like burnt plastic, get rid of it immediately.

Street food number two, rat skewer, is always a bit of a risk. No matter what country you are in and we've all heard stories of people ordering the wrong thing at a fast food truck and spending the next six hours in the bathroom in China, you have another thing to worry about: the very real possibility that the El delicious piece of roast meat that you edged is

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a rat. Street food markets are huge in China and no evening in the city is complete without a handful of spicy roast lamb on a stick. The worrying thing is that there have been multiple reports of Chinese street vendors and occasionally restaurants trying to pass off rat meat to unsuspecting consumers as pork, chicken or lamb rat meat, but it could also be full of diseases such as salmonella and The plague, for example, yes, that plague, and because surprise health department inspections are not as common in China it can be difficult for officials to crack down on criminals.

In one case, up to 63 people were implicated in the rat meat scandal. They used gelatin pigments and nitrates to make fox, rat and mink meat resemble lamb. Similar examples of food fraud include one. An example that occurred in Chiang Chi province in February 2003, when a vendor was caught selling lamb so laden with pesticides that it killed someone compared to that rat meat, doesn't sound so bad now, before returning to point one, Let's take a moment to check it out. a couple of honorable mentions at the end of your meal you'll need something to go with all that rat meat and plastic rice.

There are also many fake drinks. Counterfeiters in China have passed off regular tap water as mineral water by simply gluing it together. on fake labels, if you're lucky, the water won't have microscopic bacteria or parasites hiding inside and if you ever order a glass of wine in China, make doubly sure you get what you pay for. Criminals have been known to create fake wine by combining expired fruit juice and raw alcohol to try to imitate the taste of an aged red wine. If you're not a wine connoisseur, you might not even be able to tell the difference until you get sick, so take a moment to reconsider before splurging. in that 200 bottle of wine, so with our thirst satisfied it's time to reveal the most shocking fake Chinese food, the number one toxic wax eggs, yes you heard me right, unless you see the chicken lay them with your own Eyes, you could be buying deadly imitation eggs.

Reports indicate that the fake variety is made with gelatin and food coloring along with other harmful chemicals. You definitely shouldn't eat a paraffin wax mold and calcium carbonate is used to form the egg shell which is then filled with fake egg whites prepared with resin. starch algae extracts and coagulants the yolk is made from a rubbery resin mixed with pigment and alum a gelatinous and toxic compound if you open one it will look quite similar to a hard-boiled egg but with a strange gelatinous texture and something distinctly strange It has been discovered that Eating these chemicals causes dementia and other health problems, so these eggs are a real concern, but I have to admit that criminals are definitely creative, so how do you tell a real egg from a fake one?

Real eggs have a slight odor and normal shelf blemishes and freckles. False eggs are abnormally soft and uniformly shaped and also lack the thick membrane lining that you'll find just beneath the shell. These criminals will do anything to make quick money. and they don't care if they hurt people along the way. Are you worried about fake food becoming a problem in your home country? What do you think should be done to prevent this from happening? Let me know in the comments section below and thanks for watching