Plastic rice? really? How much is a jin of rice on the market?

In our southerners' three meals a day, rice is indispensable. However, in recent years, there has been a saying of plastic rice on the Internet. Is that plastic rice really? How much is a jin of ordinary rice on the market? Will plastic rice be available on the market?

Plastic rice originated in 2011, when a citizen in Nanjing picked out more than a dozen of the same "plastic rice grains" in a rice bag. In December 2016, Nigeria seized a batch of 102 bags of plastic rice smuggled into Nigeria and arrested a suspect. However, since 2008, China has not exported rice to Indonesia, and the emergence of "plastic rice" in Indonesia has nothing to do with our rice exporters.

However, the Nigerian State Food and Drug Administration released the test results on December 30: there is good rice and some spoiled rice. According to Nigeria's clumsy newspaper, the country's test results show that the rice is not plastic, but real rice, but "the content of microbes has exceeded the allowable limit for consumption" because it is not suitable for human consumption.

Rice made from plastic particles. Plastic rice looks very similar to rice, but more rounded than normal rice grains, whiter in color, pinched with fingernails, the particles are elastic, leaving a trace on the surface, and the texture is very similar to plastic. The prototype is plastic particles, which is a kind of plastic products, which is similar to ordinary rice in appearance. If it is mixed with edible rice, it will inevitably cause harm to the human body.

Although plastic particles can be produced in ordinary small workshops, no one will use plastic particles to fake rice for sale. "you may not have seen the real thing of plastic particles," said one plastic manufacturer. "it's very easy to tell which is plastic particles and which is rice. You can't fake them at all." So don't worry too much about buying plastic rice on the market.

What's the price of rice on the market now? I think that's what everyone wants to know about how much it costs per jin. In fact, the price of rice varies from region to region. The following picture shows the price of rice from 2017-4-05 to 2017-07-05 in some parts of the country:

Attached: identification of adulterated rice

1. Long grain fragrant rice

In rice, there are many so-called "long-grain fragrant rice" which is not really long-grain fragrant rice.

Identification method: first of all, from the grain shape, the rice grain length is above 5.5mm, and the aspect ratio reaches more than 2:1 can be called long grain; and long grain fragrant rice should be fragrant rice, with the natural flavor of rice, and a lot of unscented rice is also sold as long grain fragrant rice.

two。 Fake fragrant rice with flavor

There are illegal processors in rice polishing, will add flavor, so that unscented rice smells like fragrant rice, in order to make huge profits.

Identification method: add flavor rice and soak in boiling water for 1 minute and 2 minutes. After soaking, the rice has no fragrance, and the real fragrant rice still has fragrance after soaking.

3. Rice with mineral oil

Some aged rice or inferior rice after re-milling, the rice surface deterioration will be removed, polished rice becomes much brighter, and then mixed in normal rice to sell. Some normal rice processing even add mineral oil polishing to make the rice brighter to deceive consumers.

Identification method: inferior polished rice and mineral oil rice although very bright but beige dark, smelling greasy smell.

4. Identify dyed rice:

Colored rice (such as black rice, purple rice, etc.) is nutritious, but black rice will add pigment to dye rice to deceive consumers.

Identification method: colored rice heart is white, but after dyeing rice, the rice heart will also have color infiltration; normal colored rice will fade slightly during cleaning, but if the color fading is serious, it may be dyed rice.