5 Fake Foods You Consume Unknowingly

A lot of people end up surrendering to pirate products to be able to sport a brand, even if they know it's not true. However, in some cases, especially in culinary matters, people do not even suspect that they are taking cat by hare and end up consuming fake! Check out some of the most common:

1. Peas

Do you know the pickled peas you buy in the market? Almost always NOT peas! Canned foods are often a mixture of soy, dye and sodium metabisulphite, a component that can even develop cancer! To get away from this steal, buy peas from producers that indicate the source and distrust very bright peas.

peas

2. Cinnamon

Ceylon cinnamon, which you would like to consume, is often replaced by cassia, which looks similar but is extracted from a different plant. And only cinnamon has the health benefits it proposes, so investigate whether the package bears the name Cinnamomum verum, which is true cinnamon, or being cinnamomum aromaticum, which is the "pirate" version of the spice.

cinnamon

3. Scallop

Have you eaten scallops? He is an extremely expensive marine bivalve mollusk! As many people are unaware of the product, they may end up being scammed with pieces of fish, stingray, seahorse or shark. Even frozen mushrooms have been “disguised” as scallops in some restaurants.

scallop

4. Caviar

Another expensive product that is often counterfeited by ignorance of the consumer. Up to 1/3 of all caviar consumed in Europe is believed to be counterfeit. Pirate red caviar is usually made of gelatin, fish stock, vegetable oil and dye - it usually sticks to the teeth and bursts, releasing a strong fishy taste, indicating counterfeiting; but still, it's one of the hardest products to differentiate.

caviar

5. Cherries

True cherries are usually more expensive, so manufacturers decided to adapt a very tasteless product in this fruit: the chayote! It often picks up on the taste of spices, so it is shaped into balls that are dipped in syrup, sugar and coloring syrup. The original cherry has a stone or the space in which it should exist, but you can also read the origin of the product on the package label.

cherry

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