Fake Food

                               

                             Fake Food

Threat for Human Being

PART-1

# Fake Eggs

What is the most common nutritious source we do have in our daily food list? Maybe Egg is going to take the first place. 

One large egg has varying amounts of 13 essential vitamins and minerals, high-quality protein, all for 70 calories.

While egg whites contain some of the eggs’ high-quality protein, riboflavin, and selenium, the majority of an egg’s nutrient package is found in the yolk.  

It is really so much healthy for us. 

But now Some Greedy Dishonest Businessmen producing fake eggs. The wholesale price of this eggs is half the price of a real egg. 

Basically, its production belongs to China.  Large quantities of counterfeit chicken eggs are being manufactured in China and then sold in markets for around half the price of real eggs.  

During a recent raid on a wholesale center in Guangzhou city, the capital of China ‘s Guangzhou province, a large number of fake eggs was seized.

 Consumers have a hard time telling a genuine egg from a fake one. There is no way of telling from the photograph if one of the eggs is fake or not. 

This is good news for unscrupulous entrepreneurs, who are even conducting three-day courses in the production of artificial eggs for less than $150. A reporter with Hong Kong-based Chinese magazine East Week enrolled in one such course. Really so much shocking. 

Fake egg’s shell is made of calcium carbonate. Egg yolk and egg white are made of sodium alginate, alum, gelatin, eatable calcium chloride and then add water and food coloring. First, pour a set amount of sodium alginate into warm water and mix it into egg white like shape, then mix it with gelatin together with benzoic acid, alum, and other chemicals to make the egg white. Egg yolk is just adding lemon yellow food coloring. Together with calcium chloride to form egg mixture into the mold to produce the egg membrane. The eggshell is made of paraffin wax, gypsum powder, calcium carbonate and other materials.

To create egg white, the instructor used assorted ingredients such as gelatin, an unknown powder, Benzoic acid, coagulating material and even alum, which is normally used for industrial processes. 

For egg yolk, some lemon-yellow coloring powder is mixed to a liquid and the concoction stirred. The liquid is then poured into a round-shaped plastic mold and mixed with so-called ‘magic water’, which contains calcium chloride. 

This gives the ‘yolk’ a thin outer membrane, firming it up. The egg is then shaped into a mold. The shell is not forgotten. Paraffin wax and an unidentified white liquid are poured onto the fake egg, which is then left to dry. 

The artificial egg can be fried sunny-side up or steamed. Although bubbles appear on the white of the egg, those who have tasted it say the fake stuff tastes very much like the real thing.

As fake during cooking because the yolk and white ran together, the egg stayed very hard after boiling and it did not smell like a real egg. In contrast, the fake eggs described in later versions of the tale claim that they can be cooked like real eggs and even taste very much the same. It seems highly improbable that an “egg” made from a concoction of chemical substances, including alum, would taste and smell anything like a real egg.

But experts warn of the danger of eating fake eggs. Not only do they not contain any nutrients, a Hong Kong Chinese University professor warned that long-term consumption of alum could cause dementia. It can also cause Cancer. 

Incidentally, alum does have food related uses, including hardening gelatin and is indeed dangerous, or even fatal, to humans if consumed in more than very small amounts. And aluminum has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. 

How to Identify

How to identify fake eggs: After opening the egg, egg white and egg yolk will soon mix together.

1. Fake egg’s shell is a little shinier than the real egg, but it is not very noticeable.

2. When touch the fake egg by hand, it feels a little rougher than the real egg.

3. Shake the fake egg will make some noises because water overflows from the solid agent.

4. Real egg smells a little like raw meat.

5. Tap the egg lightly. The real egg makes a more crisp sound than the fake egg.

6. Shortly after opening the fake egg, egg yolk and egg white will melt together. This is because the egg yolk and egg white are made of the same raw materials.

7. When frying a fake egg, the yolk will spread without being touched.

But that is not the solution like how to identify, the solution is how to stop the production.