Chinese food is famous worldwide I'm sure you like to eat it yourself
in fact it's America's favorite takeout but in the food industry China is known
for their bad practices many foods coming from China are fake toxic or
worse now you may think only Chinese people have to eat this stuff and try
and avoid it but know it's coming to a store near you
90% of US supermarkets import foods from China so today I'm going to inform you
of certain dangerous foods coming from China you must avoid eating I'm Charlie
and today we're going to look at ten fake Chinese foods you need to avoid
buying but before I lose all my social credit why not subscribe and press the
notification bell - coming up first we have plastic rice rice is a staple of
Chinese food and Chinese culture China actually produces over a billion metric
tons of rice every year but sadly some rice in China is not genuine and is
actually made of plastic basically the rice is made from potatoes mixed with an
industrial resin the rice is then sold as just regular rice and it's very hard
to digest in fact eating three bowls of it is equal to eating a plastic bag but
how can you tell if your rice is fake or real well it's easy people have
developed a trick to test all you need to do is hold up a grain of rice and
burn it with a match if you smell burning plastic then this is fake rice
but if you don't then it's real also fake rice it will dissolve in hot oil so
throw a couple of grains in some hot oil and see if it dissolves or not in 2016
over a hundred bags of plastic rice were seized in Nigeria it was originally from
China and thousands of Nigerians could have eaten it if it wasn't seized next
up is rubber eggs eggs are another popular Chinese fake food which looks
really realistic the fake eggs look like the real McCoy but they are not instead
they're made with gelatin and food coloring the shell of the eggs is also
made of wax and because it's made of gelatin the yolks are actually bouncy
and rubber like everyone knows eggs crack when you drop
them but these ones simply bounce out of the pan next up is cement walnuts
imagine this you buy a bunch of walnuts and take them home excited to eat them
but then when you crack the hard shell you find something even more hard inside
that is the reality for many shoppers in China and worldwide in generosity market
in China walnuts stuffed with cement have become commonplace and now these
walnuts may be being shipped worldwide basically what's happening is vendors
are taking empty walnuts shells and then putting cement inside them they also
fill up the shell with paper and then seal it closed these cement nuts are
then sold making the vendors a big profit after all they're literally
selling you food scraps and cement they also use a small amount of cement so it
seems like it's a walnut inside this actually makes a lot of sense because in
China walnuts are very expensive they're actually around 50 times more expensive
than they cost in the USA next up is industrial salt everyone likes a bit of
cheap table salt on their fries but if your salt says Made in China then make
sure you look into its origins anyone who knows about chemistry knows that
salt does not just mean table salt in fact salt is a mineral comprised of
sodium chloride well some Chinese vendors have began selling industrial
salt as table salt first off this salt is not really taste like normal table
salt instead it's rock salt which is around a hundred times less expensive
than table salt vendors simply take industrial salt used for construction
and put it in a container of table cells they then sell that for a big markup but
it's very dangerous if you can seem it consuming this could lead to a heart
attack or a stroke so avoid it at all costs next up is honey
one thing China is known for is fake honey some honey coming from China is
totally authentic and delicious but in the Jin nan province alone 70% of the
honey is fake there's so much fake honey there's actually two different types of
it the first is known as alter rated honey this is where vendors
blend honey with sugar beetroot and rice Syrah but the second is even more fake
it's made with alum sugar water and food coloring
they then mark up the price tenfold and you should definitely avoid especially
the second fake honey which includes alum that's because if you have enough
alum in your body it can make you very ill next up is fake wine Chinese
authorities are desperately trying to crack down on a big problem in China
which is fake wine wine sellers from around the world will pay thousands
sometimes millions of dollars for expensive and rare wines but many
vendors are simply making up fake labels and then putting cheap wine in the
bottles the sellers will scour eBay and buy very expensive bottles and labels
but then they'll fill the wine bottles up with fruit juice and alcohol or
sometimes just a cheap wine many of the people who buy this stuff don't even
realize as they buy the wine to collect not to drink however American
billionaire Bill Koch spent thirty five million dollars investigating his wine
collection from this he found out he bought four hundred thousand dollars
worth of fake wine from China so make sure you only buy expensive wines from
official vendors next up is fake beef there is an abundance of pork in China
but not so much for beef that's why there's actually a high market value
placed on beef so vendors have come up with a way to fake it many vendors
actually take cheap pork and alter it to make it taste and look like beef they
simply get pork and dip it in beef extract and glaze it they do this for
about one hour but it makes them a lot of money now you may think this is just
bad business practice and people being greedy but doctor said it can also cause
deformities poisoning or cancer so avoid fake Chinese beef at all costs
next up is Peas this may be a shot to you but if you buy peas imported from
China they could be fake the fake peas are actually made from a combination of
metabisulfite snow peas soybeans and green food dye
- Bissell fight can cause cancer so make sure you don't have it in any of your
products but if you think you may have fake pees in your home then don't worry
there are some telltale signs first off when you boil the pees the water may
turn slightly green this is because if the food dye will be coming out of the
peas and also the peas won't become very soft they'll remain pretty hard so if
you notice these trends in your peas then do not eat them and finally on the
list we have fake lamb lamb or mutton is a delicious meat everyone loves the only
downside is that the price is very high well that's why some vendors in China
have made a fake version of mutton they make it using rats minks and foxes in
fact Chinese authorities have been investigating this and in one 3-month
period nine hundred people were arrested
authorities also seized 20,000 tons of this fake meat also the meat had serious
levels of e.coli which can take your life so make sure you avoid fake lamb
and buy it only from great vendors but now it's time to make your opinion heard
vote in the poll in the top right corner which was the most shocking fake food
you need to avoid buying I think it's the cement walnut as I can't believe
they're really putting cement in nut shells if you want some more amazing
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