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How To Identify Fake Eggs

Are you wondering how to identify fake eggs? Here are some tips which may help.

Processed foods have enough of artificial ingredients and chemicals to spoil your health. Added to that if you fall prey to synthetic foods like plastic rice and fake sugar, your health goes for a toss.

If reports are to be believed, after plastic rice and sugar, there are fake eggs in the market! What are these fake eggs?

Some reports say that they are made of chemicals. Gypsum powder, paraffin wax and calcium carbonate are being used to make the egg shells. What about the egg white and the yolk? Well, they are said to be made of benzoic acid, calcium chloride, gelatin, alum, sodium alginate and certain other compounds!

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Such chemicals could cause liver issues, nerve cell damage and metabolism disorders. Well, whether the reports are true or not, it is better to be careful when you buy eggs. Here are some ways to check whether the eggs you bought are fake or real.

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Real egg shells are not so shiny. If the eggs shells are bright and shiny, they could be fake ones!

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Using your finger, touch the shell. The surface will be smooth if the eggs are real. Fake egg shells have a rough surface.

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When you shake a real egg, you probably won't be able to hear anything but fake eggs contain fluids that could make a noise.

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When you crack the egg, real eggs show the yolk separately whereas in fake eggs, both the yolk and the egg white fluid tend to mix.

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Well, these are just a few tips. Actually, it isn't so easy to identify fake eggs. So, be careful and buy eggs from a trusted source.

Story first published: Saturday, June 10, 2017, 12:10 [IST]
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