How to distinguish fake Tet food containing chemicals

Soy sauce

Tet in East Asia is an occasion when every family cooks many delicious dishes and indispensable dipping sauces. Soy sauce is often used to dip many types of food, especially fried banh chung.

Soy sauce has healthy ingredients but is often counterfeited with toxic chemicals. First, when buying, you need to carefully "check" the ingredients inside. If there are more flavor enhancers, you should not buy it. The main ingredients should be water, soybeans, salt and wheat.

In terms of color, natural soy sauce is usually brown or light brown. Fake soy sauce is usually dark in color. Pure soy sauce requires a long process to make, so the price will also be higher.

Dried fruit, jam

Dried fruits or jams are used to entertain guests during Tet. If dried raw, they look unattractive because they are shriveled, dull, and lose all their color. This is the reason why manufacturers often use sulfur dioxide to make them look more appetizing.

The only way to distinguish is the shine, if it is too bright, the color is eye-catching, especially with fruits that have different colors such as green, bright red, bright orange, you have to be more careful. In addition, you should not buy the type with split seeds or grooves because they can contain a lot of bacteria. If you buy, you should choose the type of dried whole fruit, whole bunch.

Chicken

Every housewife wants to buy "clean" chicken to ensure the health of the whole family, but not everyone can distinguish between real and fake. For example, people think that delicious, good quality chickens often have yellow skin. However, chicken sellers can feed them a lot of corn, substances to add yellow pigment to the skin or, more simply, paint their skin with food coloring or turmeric powder.

Or some people think that good chickens are usually small and need a long time to boil, but the weight and boiling time depend on the breed of chicken. So the best way is to buy chickens at reputable stores, familiar with them, knowing the origin of the meat such as country chickens, free-range chickens... Use your hand to squeeze the throat, if it feels hard, it is an old chicken, if it feels soft, it is a young chicken or duck. In addition, you should also avoid poultry with black needles on the wings because it is likely to have been injected with water. If the muscle makes a popping sound when clapped, the skin seems swollen, it may have been injected with water to make it heavier.

Wine

During Tet, many families gather together and certainly cannot lack glasses of wine to toast each other. However, due to the cost, wine, especially red wine, is often counterfeited.

Instead of being made from fermented grape juice, fake wine uses synthetic grape flavor powder and poor quality yeast, which can make the taste bad, even cause poisoning. Because of the danger of fake wine, if possible, you should try it by: putting baking soda powder in a cup, dropping wine on it. If it turns blue due to a chemical reaction, it is genuine wine.

Rice

Rice is not only used for cooking but also for wrapping banh chung on Tet holiday. Therefore, you should also carefully check the origin and quality before processing. Fake rice is not too rare on the market now, the shape is no different from real rice but the ingredients are potato starch, even plastic. If it is fake rice, when cooked, the rice will not have a fragrant, sweet taste. You can also test by taking a spoonful of rice and burning it. Fake rice has black smoke, a pungent smell and burns like burning plastic.

Red caviar

Red caviar is a European culinary dish but is also used as a Tet gift because of its nutritional value and luxury. It is not difficult to recognize fake red caviar products.

In fact, red caviar is a type of egg, so it will not be round but oval. In particular, in the middle, you can see a tiny core, surrounded by fat. If you do not see this part, it is definitely a fake egg. In addition, experience for you is to buy red caviar in a glass bottle to observe more carefully, instead of buying the type in an iron can.