Chinese Fake Rice: Everything You Need To Know

Ladies and Gentlemen, shocking (And scary, if I may add!) videos on the internet show “fake rice” from China, that have allegedly entered the Indian, Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian and Vietnamese markets. The scarily real-looking Grains of Rice are made of potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic. However, the rice remains hard even when cooked. It starts looking like Styrofoam when cold, and sticks into clumps. A consumer from Philippines claims that it rice does not spoil for as long as 3 weeks upon cooking! And, water comes out of it, when you squeeze it.

Some of these shocking videos show a plastic-like layer appearing on top of water when the rice is cooked. Dry the layer, and it burns like plastic indeed.

Worse is this synthetic rice being mixed with the real ones – one can only imagine how difficult it must be for the consumer to figure out that it’s adulterated.

There were reports of this synthetic rice being sold in Kerala, but they have been trashed by the state government.

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