Hoping to use a natural product, you will not always understand that there is a fake in front of you – sometimes just tasteless, and often dangerous for your body, as it is prepared from food waste or substitute products.
Olive oil
Cold-pressed olive oil is most often counterfeited, and if natural oil is literally a medicine for any person, then a counterfeit is a provocateur. Fake olive oil is prepared from peanuts or soybeans, which are highly allergens.
Honey
Honey is a natural raw material, and often its weight is exaggerated, diluted with sugar syrups – it’s cheaper. In addition, antibiotics are added to honey so that it is stored longer.
Sushi
It is very easy to replace the ingredients in sushi with cheaper substitutes. For example, tint fish or serve white fish that does not correspond to the declared species in the menu. At the same time, cheaper fish can become an allergic surprise for you.
Parmesan
Real Parmesan is a delicious cheese produced in Italy. And that’s why a natural product is very expensive – just imagine the cost of delivery! Parmesan on supermarket shelves is often made from cheap cheeses and all sorts of substitutes.
Marble beef
It is marble steaks that are the meat of young gobies, which are raised in compliance with certain technologies and conditions. It is impossible to buy such meat in a supermarket, given its scarcity and high cost!
Coffee
Not only instant coffee is counterfeited, but, alas, also ground natural coffee. These drinks add corn, pearl barley, parchment, crushed to almost dust. Ground coffee contains chicory, caramel, malt, starch and ground cereals.
Balsamic vinegar
Balsamic vinegar is not a cheap and rare product, as it must be aged for several years. The product sold under the guise of vinegar is prepared on the basis of white wine vinegar, cornstarch and caramel. It turns out to be high in calories and heavy.
Sea bass
This fish is incredibly healthy and considered dietary. But most often, under the guise of this fish, they will sell you ordinary tilapia or catfish. Big minus – you will overpay for meat.
kitchen herbs
You can disguise anything in a multi-colored spice. Multicomponent mixtures are especially susceptible to this. But monospecialties can also be diluted with cheaper and color-matched ingredients.
Fruit juice
The composition of the product on the label does not guarantee the naturalness of the juice. But the absence of any information should alert us first of all – this juice is most likely made from concentrate, tinted, diluted with flavor enhancers and preservatives.