Try pounding rice
Fake rice is a type of rice made from potatoes, sweet potatoes with synthetic resin, pressed into rice grains. If you just look at the appearance, it will be difficult to tell which is real rice and which is fake rice. When you pound the rice with a pestle and mortar, the real rice will be crushed and become a white crystalline powder. But with fake rice, you will see it turn pale yellow.


Use fire to burn rice or roast rice
Put some rice on the fire. If rice ignite immediately and the smell of plastic is fake rice, don’t eat this lest you get sick when you don’t know! You can also put the rice in the pan and roast it evenly, if the rice grains turn uniform in color and have a characteristic aroma that is real rice, if the rice melts, smells burnt or clumped together, it is fake rice.


Observe the appearance of the rice grain
No need to sow seeds, no need to do plating, no need to take care of, harvest, every day the machines produce tons of rice. In this way, consumers die from disease, followed by farmers starving to death. You can tell which is real rice, fake rice by visual observation.
- Fake rice There are unusual signs such as elongated shape up to 10mm, regular, no broken seeds, no chipped, no silver belly. The rice grain has a small width, the grain is white like a raindrop, when held in the palm of the hand, it does not leave dust and the rice does not have a characteristic aroma.
- Real rice only about 6-7mm long, the grain has a large width, the seeds are uneven, there are seeds with chipped edges due to the milling process, when held in the palm of the hand, it leaves bran dust and when sending the rice has a very specific aroma.
Worryingly, if fake rice is mixed with real rice and sold in the market, it will be very difficult to distinguish. Experts recommend that consumers should observe carefully before buying to avoid buying products that are not quality.


Put rice in a humid environment
If you want to know for sure if the rice you’re cooking is safe, place a small amount in an airtight container and keep it in a humid place. If it’s real rice, within a few days it will be fermentation and mold. If the rice does not show any signs of change, it is definitely fake rice.


When it’s cooked
When you cook real rice evenly bloom, sticky, delicious and has a characteristic aroma. As for the fake rice, the rice does not bloom like normal rice, the rice grains are abnormally discrete. Instead of the aroma of rice, the whole pot reeked of nylon, alternating with the smell of synthetic plastic that was difficult to smell and could not be eaten.


Washing rice
The experience of some rice traders shows that, real rice There is a very thin bran layer on the outside of the rice grain, which contains very nutritious vitamin B1. When washing real rice, the water for washing rice will be white or ivory white because the bran layer is peeled off. When washing rice, the coating will peel off, making the water cloudy. In addition, when squeezing a handful of rice, when letting go, many grains of rice are still stuck in the palm of the hand thanks to the coating. As for fake rice, because it is made of plastic, the water to wash the rice is still clear and less sticky in the palm of the hand.


Try rice with water
According to Strastimes, fake rice made from potatoes or sweet potatoes, mixed with synthetic resin, steamed rice flavor, has the same appearance as regular rice. Health experts said that our digestive system and health will be seriously affected if we eat this type of rice. Everyone wants to know if the rice they buy is real or fake, but if you don’t know what to do, you can try it with water.
- A simple way to distinguish real rice from fake rice is to pour a tablespoon of rice into a glass of cold water and stir vigorously.
- If all the rice sinks to the bottom of the glass, it’s definitely real rice. If the rice is floating on the surface, then be careful, you are most likely fooled because it is fake rice!
- Moreover, if it is real rice, after a while, the rice will swell, and the fake rice will not swell but float to the surface.

