Nowadays adulteration is increasing in the market. Food items are prepared through adulteration, which people buy from the market and consume without checking their quality. Such adulterated food items are very harmful to health. Mixing water in milk is a common adulteration, but the rice which is cooked daily in our kitchen and is eaten by everyone in the house with relish, can also be adulterated. These days, fresh rice is being sold in the market. People do not even know that the rice they are eating may be made of plastic. Plastic rice looks just like real rice. Plastic rice cannot be identified even after cooking. In such a situation, people are unknowingly consuming something that is very dangerous to their health. Here are some tips to identify whether you are eating fake or plastic rice. Identify real and fake rice at home in an easy way.
Burn rice
If you want to check the quality of rice brought from the market, first take some rice and burn it. If the smell of plastic comes after the rice is burnt, then understand that it is fake rice. If you want, you can thicken the rice water and then burn it. If the product starts burning like plastic then it is fake.
Add lime to rice
Take out some rice in a vessel. Make a solution of lime and water. Soak the rice in this solution for some time and leave it. If the color of the rice starts changing or it starts leaving its color then understand that the rice is fake.
Identifying rice from water
To identify real and fake rice, put one spoon of rice in a glass of water. If the rice sinks in water after some time then it is real and if the rice starts floating upwards in water then it is fake rice because plastic never sinks in water.
Examining rice in hot oil
Plastic rice can also be identified through hot oil. Add a handful of rice to very hot oil. If the rice melts and starts sticking together then it is plastic rice.
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