African101:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLX4mECEuhM


https://www.naij.com/1053229-warning-plastic-rice-floods-nigeria-heres-6-tests-help-determine-rice-fake.html

Op

Have you seen or eaten any of these so-called plastic rice before ?
Do you personally know of anyone who has ?

Elementary biology and common sense should tell you that our bodies cannot digest plastics.
Besides, rice has a certain density, far greater than plastics.
The equivalent kilograms of a bag of plastic rice would be at least 3 the size of the same weight of natural rice.
Therefore, it is impossible to pass on plastics as food.

What are your authentic sources for this FAKE news?

Stop encouraging ignorance.

What you see in that video are chemical resins used in the manufacture of plastics.
Someone obviously is preying on mass ignorance and scientific illiteracy to cause panic and Mass hysteria.

Stop peddling this ignorance.

Tomorrow someone will be charged for drug and probably get killed by hanging, but another person is here also producing plastic rice for human consumption. Then what is the justice behind this?

............ And our brothers knowing fully well that this evil rice is harmful still they will import it into the country!

....... And our regulatory agencies seeing this evil rice arrive into the country, but for a little handout will allow the importers to bring this poison into our market!


Which way nigeria?

nairaman66:
Na wah oo, I am porting to another source of carbohydrate!

Beans is a good source of carb with fibre

African101:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLX4mECEuhM


https://www.naij.com/1053229-warning-plastic-rice-floods-nigeria-heres-6-tests-help-determine-rice-fake.html

are you sure this water text is effective..

Unsad:
End time buhari attracting End time rice via end time policies into an end time country.

comment by an endtime nairalander.

Fvck d test, death sentence on the yestern importers n yoloba smugglers.

ephi123:
Na wa o. Nigeria has become a dumping ground for "China" goods. Don't we have regulatory agencies in this country

OP, thanks for creating awareness about this.

Thank you. That's exactly what am about to say. How does it get to this country in the first place? Hmmmmm.

ephi123:
Na wa o. Nigeria has become a dumping ground for "China" goods. Don't we have regulatory agencies in this country

OP, thanks for creating awareness about this.

Thank you. That's exactly what am about to say. How does it get to this country in the first place? Hmmmmm. Yet we thought we have a working government. May God deliver us from this wicked people.

cycline404:



Damm!! With this orientation, we still have a long way to go...

that guy needs brain check

The way out is local rice..This one can cause cancer ooo!may God help us all.

If it has gotten to dis level, de best option is to patronise local rice. I can handle de stones in it, but akant risk my life for "foreign rice"

2kaybiel:
these Chinese people sef,

next thing for them is to produce plastic human

they have already done that

Pls stop this lie and remove it from front page Asap! What's going on in that factory is called PALLETIZING! It's a process of regrinding used or waste materials to make Virgin materials for new production! The material is grinded, melted and made to pass through water to solidify it and eventually chopped into tiny grains of ready to use plastic materials for production of plastic utensils! The writer in is myopic state has never visited any plastic factories in his life! Let him tate a walk to plastics industries in Oregun, Apapa, Sango, Ilupeju and places where you have plastic industries, he will see this production lines in majorly Chinese and Indian factories! So remove this confusing thread from nairaland front page! It's absolutely false! Period!

lordm:
If it is cheaper and can digest without issues then no problem with me. Ftc

Poison can also digest, you huge m*oron!
You're a good example of a deranged Nigerian!

lordm:
If it is cheaper and can digest without issues then no problem with me. Ftc

My God! So plastic will digest without issues? It will not even digest at all. Unless your alimentary canal is an artificial one that is equipped with enzyme PLASTICASE to act on the plastic(as we have enzyme maltase that acts on maltose)

lordm:
If it is cheaper and can digest without issues then no problem with me. Ftc

Seriously, you want to eat plastic rice? Anyway, i wish you well when you do eat it. A word is enough for the wise.

Rice is one of the cheapest thing in China that it will be more expensive to make plastic rice than an actual rice. You can say it's from another country but definitely not China

If I could still do all these to identify fake and good rice,then NAFDAC remains useless!

African101:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLX4mECEuhM


https://www.naij.com/1053229-warning-plastic-rice-floods-nigeria-heres-6-tests-help-determine-rice-fake.html

Hv u heard of plastic cabbage! Most of the cabbage we eat v plastic chemical. Just a flame test. Tk out a leave and place it in an open flame not to burn tho, after abt 2min the leave won't cut easily. Just stretch like rubber.

Hmm...

If person chop dis one, how im shit go be self...?

this is plastic recycling plant . we have same in nigeria .
the media need to get educated and stop spreading ignorance

Eguaikide:
Pls stop this lie and remove it from front page Asap! What's going on in that factory is called PALLETIZING! It's a process of regrinding used or waste materials to make Virgin materials for new production! The material is grinded, melted and made to pass through water to solidify it and eventually chopped into tiny grains of ready to use plastic materials for production of plastic utensils! The writer in is myopic state has never visited any plastic factories in his life! Let him tate a walk to plastics industries in Oregun, Apapa, Sango, Ilupeju and places where you have plastic industries, he will see this production lines in majorly Chinese and Indian factories! So remove this confusing thread from nairaland front page! It's absolutely false! Period!

God bless you . i was opportune to work in a plastic recycling plant in Nigeria , the process is the same , funnily a friend of mine used the material as his final year project .
nigeria media need to educate nigerians and stop spreading ignorance

lordm:
If it is cheaper and can digest without issues then no problem with me. Ftc

Seem You think with your stomach
So when plastic go digest in your stomach

AjiereTuwo:


they have already done that

seriously

God will save us

skedman:
You people should just stop all these your propaganda , can you cook plastic and it get softer , please I don't think any reasonable person in these country will see plastic rice and buy it . For example how did you recognise ofada rice, small and big rice. Moreso, the weight of plastic rice will differ from that of a normal rice , kindly put broken plastic in a bowl filled with water it will usually float. Then, you were advice to go to school but you insisted I belong to ipob , militant

actually you can.. you dumb sanctimonious ignoramus! have you heard about edible plastics? McDonald uses it for their donuts..you can buy a McDonald donut, keep it under room temperature for a week and it will still be fresh..because it isn't wholly natural..

skedman:
You people should just stop all these your propaganda , can you cook plastic and it get softer , please I don't think any reasonable person in these country will see plastic rice and buy it . For example how did you recognise ofada rice, small and big rice. Moreso, the weight of plastic rice will differ from that of a normal rice , kindly put broken plastic in a bowl filled with water it will usually float. Then, you were advice to go to school but you insisted I belong to ipob , militant

baba the plastic rice is actually mixed with real rice, people may hardly tell the difference. the best way to detect plastic rice is when washing rice, if majority of the grains stay afloat its best to dispose of the whole rice.

My people can lie, fabricate fake stories and spread propaganda.

How can plastic or rubber pass for rice.

You pick a totally unrelated video and add fake comments to it and everyone else is sharing without fact checking.

There is no such thing. The process in d video is a recycling process whereby polythene is melted, palletized, and bagged. Theses pellets are then re-use in producing fresh polythene.
Disregard all you see on social media.
Do proper research before spreading false news.

ucsparks:
Nigerians ehh,, there's nothing like plastic rice
What you see there is the raw materials for producing polymer and plastics imported by plastic companies


What we have is artificial rice not plastic rice


Artificial rice is a grain product made to resemble rice. It is usually made from broken rice, sometimes with the addition of other cereals, and often fortified with micronutrients, including minerals such as iron and zinc and vitamins, such as vitamin A and vitamin B. Please educate yourselves


And by the way, which of the above commenters have seen one in the market before?

so u know the properties of artificial rice ba?
Quoting from an article on this website:
http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2016/11/how-to-distinguish-fake-plastic-rice-from-real.html

Potato starch gets mixed with plastic (synthetic resin, for instance) and then formed into rice-shaped kernels. Finally the grains are steamed with a typical rice aroma. Doctors have emphatically warned against consuming the artificial product: three full portions apparently contain as much plastic as there is in a little plastic bag. That's alarming!

Dont go with everything wikipedia tells u

All these chinese ppl want to kill us