This is the kind of fame that many products made in China have gained. Electronics, equipment, clothing, etc. in a very wide range- "pirated" products of Chinese enterprises, constantly supplementing the list of their counterfeits. Recently began to appear fake products nutrition. It would seem, well, how can you fake egg? But the Chinese rich in invention have created a primitive technology, and, which are very difficult to distinguish from the real ones, periodically fill outlets, even reaching Russia. But the Chinese craftsmen do not want to stop there. And recently there was information that they learned to counterfeit beef meat there. To the question: "which is better than pork or beef?" the Chinese have an unequivocal answer. Beef steaks are especially appreciated there, and a way has finally been found to get them from cheap chicken or pork. This is achieved with the help of Zeng Xiang Ji "beef extract". For magical transformation will need a little more than an hour... First, the pork is treated with a special flavoring powder to give the meat pleasant smell, then marinated in beef extract sauce. After this procedure, you can cook any dishes from meat, subjecting it to the usual heat treatment... It will be very difficult to distinguish such pork from beef. Now, not only in appearance, but also in taste it will resemble real beef.

I will not argue, but, in my opinion, the so-called widespread so-called "works" on approximately the same principle. " liquid smoke", Which can be used to" smoke "fish, bacon, etc. no smoke at all. For some reason, the absolute harmlessness of eating such food is questioned. And Chinese doctors do not often recommend eating foods processed with "beef extract". In their opinion, this may cause oncological diseases.

All foods we know - from milk and wine to meat, spices, vegetables and even eggs - can be counterfeited. And they are forging. And then we eat. A couple of geeks - Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple - conducted a massive investigation (Alpina Publisher). The Secret chose the wildest examples from it. Walking around the supermarket will get scary.

There was no chicken

The bird's egg is an ideal system that contains all the necessary substances for the development of new life, or, in a less successful case, for feeding any living creature. The egg is formed in the female's body in 25 hours.

Now imagine that you are able to recreate the entire process of egg formation at home using simple ingredients that can be bought online. It won't take you any longer than the chicken.

First, take sodium alginate. It is produced from brown algae and when combined with water forms a viscous gel. V Food Industry it is used as a thickener; it forms the jelly-like clots that you see in canned cat food. So, add water to sodium alginate and stir for an hour and a half. Now add some gelatin ... Now is the time to add sodium benzoate and alum - both are widely used as preservatives ...

Now put some of the base mix in a separate bowl and add the color. The label should say yellow-orange, curcumin, sunset or something like that. The yolk is ready!

After that, pour some more base mixture into the plastic mold, transfer the yolk there and immerse the mold again in the calcium chloride solution to stabilize the resulting model. And finally, carefully place our preform in a mixture of molten paraffin and gypsum powder (alabaster) - and a perfect shell forms around the egg ...

Well, then you put them in cardboard boxes, sell them on the market and get two or even four times more profit than a traditional poultry farm. Oh yes, and another nice little thing in the appendage: the remains of the base mixture can be dyed green or purple, splash a little (a couple of drops, no more) juice - and now you have artificial grapes ready. The chicken never dreamed of such a thing!

Artificial eggs were invented in China in the mid-1990s, and they still continue to periodically appear here and there. The fakes are so convincing that people cook and eat them as if nothing had happened. The internet is full of information on how to distinguish fake eggs from real ones (hint: artificial ones don't have a shell - a thin film right under the shell). Little is known about the health benefits or dangers of such eggs: all ingredients are widely used in the food industry, but not in the quantities required to create artificial eggs.

Making eggs from chemical ingredients can serve as a canonical example of food fraud. This is the deliberate production of a plausible copy of a real product with one and only purpose: to deceive a fake to a gullible buyer for his own profit. However, processing food products to create an imitation is quite common. Who among us has not encountered soy products that are almost identical in appearance and taste to cheese? A crab sticks that are actually made from minced fish using dyes and flavors?

Why are we falling for this?

Product counterfeiting is just one way to cheat consumers, albeit the most common one.

Products that have already expired are labeled with a new expiration date and go on sale. Livestock by-products are processed and returned to the food production cycle. Packaging labels deliberately mislead buyers about the country of origin or the type of product in order to force them to pay a higher price. False information can also relate to the method of production of the product: they write about eggs that they were laid by free-walking chickens, about almost any product - that it is organic, and about salmon - that it is wild and not raised in a fish farm. All these simple ways of cheating bring someone in the food chain easy money, which is not easy for customers.

The rot that Pete propagated

Maggie Pete is one of the most famous meat fraudsters in the UK. His real name is Peter Roberts. Roberts' first business project was a maggot farm, which gave him such a dissonant nickname. Then, in search of a more profitable occupation, he opened a poultry slaughterhouse - Denby Poultry Products in Derbyshire, and to increase profits he began to make pet food from the waste of the main production. But then he came up with an even more tempting idea: to return production waste back to the food industry.

In addition to relatively harmless waste - for example, animals not suitable for human consumption for aesthetic reasons - Roberts began to take sick and contaminated poultry from other slaughterhouses. Many of the individuals who got to him in this way died for unknown reasons and could be carriers of infectious diseases. The slaughterhouses paid about £ 80 a ton to whoever was willing to pick up, transport and dispose of such hazardous waste, and when Roberts began offering the same service at £ 25 a ton, there was no end to those willing. Workers at his plant then cut off unwanted parts, washed the birds with bleach to wash away mucus and stains, then packed them and sold them to hospitals, schools, restaurants and popular supermarkets.

In 1995-2001 Roberts and his team have dumped nearly half a million kilograms of counterfeit poultry into the food supply chain and amassed a vast customer base of about 600 customers. In six years, this activity has brought the company executives about £ 1 million.

The chapter after which you want to become a vegetarian

In the summer of 2014, McDonald’s was involved in the spoiled meat scandal. After an undercover journalist spoke about the unsanitary meat processing conditions at Shanghai Husi Food Co., it was subjected to extensive scrutiny. The investigation revealed that the company was involved in the processing and sale of expired beef and chicken with a new expiration date. Then these products were delivered to McDonald's restaurants, Papa John's, Burger king, Starbucks, KFC and Pizza hut in China, as well as in Japanese McDonald’s, where the share of counterfeit goods was about 20%. The Japanese subsidiaries immediately stopped importing meat from China, adding fish and tofu McNuggets to their menu ...

China is one of the world's centers for counterfeiting anything and everything. For example, in the Middle Kingdom, expensive beef steaks and stews are prepared from a piece of inexpensive pork or even cheaper chicken. Although those who often eat such dishes are at risk of cancer.

1. The whole secret lies in the so-called "beef extract" Zeng Xiang Ji. With its help, chicken or pork can be easily turned into "beef" in a little over an hour.

2. So here is the Chinese recipe national restaurant in Hefei city

3. With the help of the substance in this bag, the smell inherent in it is beaten off from the pork.

4. Pork is marinated in a sauce with extract.

5. On the left is a piece of pork marinated in an extract sauce, and on the right is natural pork.

6. And now the same two slices, but after about 1-1.5 hours of cooking. A slice of pork, passed off as beef, looks even like it. By the way, it smells almost like beef.

7. Like this. A bit of ingenuity, and what is called a recipe from the series "for the mistress of the note."

8. True, Chinese doctors say that the frequent use of beef extract is not beneficial the human body and can cause cancer.

9. Arriving in the Middle Kingdom, order better chicken or pork, why overpay while also risking your health?

Chinese industrial plants are mushrooming after rain. It seems that everything is produced here, they can fake anything and come up with their own - unusual, unlike anything else. Food manufacturers have gone even further. Today, caviar, eggs and even meat are counterfeited in the country ... Everyone has heard about caviar before, but what does meat have to do with it?

It is worth starting, perhaps, with the fact that pork in the country is two times cheaper than beef. Obviously, not everyone can afford such a product, but everyone wants it. Therefore, enterprising Chinese decided to deceive not only the buyer, but also nature itself. Initially, the product was intended only for the domestic market. But not too long ago fake beef found in stores in France, Great Britain, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Poland and Luxembourg. Now every second person has a reason to worry about their health.

Zeng Xiang Ji

So this is the so called "Beef extract"- a new auxiliary ingredient thanks to which not only pork, but also chicken can be easily turned into something resembling beef. One of the most popular restaurants in China makes no secret of its use, and visitors don't seem to mind as long as the taste matches.

How is it going? So, the substance in this sachet helps to get rid of the pork odor. To do this, it is enough just in spices, sauce and a special white powder. For 25 kg of meat, approximately 0.5 kg of powder is spent. Moreover, in China, it is freely available.

Just compare these two cuts of meat: on the left - natural pork, on the right - a piece marinated "like beef". If you cook each of them in the same way, then as a result you get two different dishes and two different tastes... The pickled piece will really look like beef and smell much the same. The only thing visible difference- consistency.

Effects

The first priority is the pleasure of tasty and juicy piece beef in a plate. But, as doctors say, regular use such a product leads to a variety of disorders.

And who will guarantee that we do not have such a product yet? It has already been found in European countries and began to pay more attention to the certificates of the supplied product. We have not yet talked about this. But this does not mean that you should remain careless. Only buy meat from trusted suppliers or farmers who do not buy beef overseas. Share the link. everyone should know.

The well-known China is in fact considered one of the world centers for fakes and forgeries in total of everything and everything. Now we will tell you how in the so-called "Celestial Empire" from a piece of cheap pork, or even more penny - chicken meat, they prepare expensive beef steaks and "tasty" stew. Those lovers who constantly eat such dishes are at risk of cancer or serious ailments.

The entire Chinese focus is contained in the so-called "beef extract" - Zeng Xiang Ji. With its help, pork or chicken in just a little over an hour can simply be transformed into pseudo "beef".

So, here it is - a recipe for a Chinese, national restaurant located in the city of Hefei. With the help of the drug in this bag, you can beat off the smell characteristic of pork.

Marinate pork in such a sauce with concentrate.

On the left we have a piece of pork marinated in a wonderful sauce with extract, and on the right - natural pig meat.

And now - the same 2 pieces, but after about 1-1.5 hours of cooking. Pork shmat, passed off as beef, by appearance even looks like her. By the way, it will be noted that it smells almost like beef.

Like this! A little bit of resourcefulness, and - as they say, a recipe from the series "note to hostesses". True, Chinese doctors say that the frequent use of beef concentrate is not beneficial for a young and growing body, and may be a prerequisite for cancer.

Advice: when arriving in China, order chicken or pork to the table. Why overpay for this, risking your own health and well-being?