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Fake Rice Test: Rice is used to make many dishes in our kitchen. Every day different dishes are made from rice in everyone's house. Everyone likes it from children to adults. But do you know whether the rice you bring from the market is real or not?
Usually people are not ready to believe that rice can be fake, but this is true. Nowadays fake rice is being sold in the market. This rice is made so fine that you will not even know that the rice you are eating is actually made of plastic.
Plastic rice looks exactly like real rice. Plastic rice cannot be identified even after cooking. In such a situation, people are unknowingly filling their stomach with plastic instead of rice. Today we are giving you some tips to identify fake or plastic rice. You can easily identify real and fake rice at home.
Burn the Rice
To check the quality of rice brought from the market, first take some rice and burn them. If the rice smells like plastic after burning, then it is fake rice. If you want, you can also burn rice water by condensing it. If it burns like plastic, then it is fake.
Add lemon juice to the rice,
Take out some rice in a bowl. Make a mixture of lemon and water. – Now soak the rice in it for some time. If the color of the rice starts changing or starts turning pale, then understand that the rice is fake.
Identify rice by water
To identify real and fake rice, put a spoonful of rice in a glass of water. If the rice sinks after some time then it is real and if the rice floats on the water then it is fake rice because plastic never sinks in water.
Check with hot oil
Plastic rice can also be tested with hot oil. – Put a handful of rice in very hot oil. If the rice melts and sticks together, then it is plastic rice.