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5 Easy Tips To Help You Distinguish Between Chinese Plastic Rice And Normal Rice by supernova094(m): 10:02am On May 30, 2017
Most people might easily imagine that Chinese plastic rice is actually made from just plastic but these manufacturers are way smarter than that.

It’s thus a combination of broken real rice, Apple peels, custard apple, sweet potato, micronutrients, vitamins A, B, and minerals as zinc iron as well as plastic industrial synthetic resins. As such, it’s virtually impossible to know the difference when it’s raw. It’ll mimic the exact look of your normal rice.

Reports coming in tell us that some Nigerian Officials have raised alarms that some companies in China produce these hazardous foods and ship them in large quantities to African countries (Nigeria included). This came after the Nigerian Customs seized 2.5 tonnes of Chinese plastic rice branded as “Best Tomato Rice

Chinese plastic rice is not only found in African countries but also in some parts of Southern Asia, take India for example. In some small and scattered rural settlements of India, the menace exists, disguised to look like real rice by filling the top and bottom of a typical 25kg bag with real rice and the middle with the fake rice.

Read full story at http://thelekkipost.com/distinguish-between-chinese-plastic-rice/

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