Many dirty workshops produce fake duck blood, and some even use cheap animal blood to make duck blood, and add preservatives such as pigment additives and carmine in the production process. Fake duck blood is made of inferior cow blood or pig blood. In order to make the taste and toughness more like duck blood, a lot of formaldehyde and industrial pigments were added. Some duck blood sold in the market was fished out in buckets when killing pigs, which contained edible glue and formaldehyde. After the blood is deposited, the fake duck blood is deposited below.

Some fake duck blood uses starch or blood powder with coagulant and pigment. Even hot pot restaurants are mixed with a kind of small white particles, and the shape and toughness of fake duck blood can be controlled at will. A fake duck blood only needs a few cents of ingredients. The key point is that this cottage technology is not only found in many hot pot restaurants in Jinan, but also used almost all over the country.

How to distinguish true duck blood from false duck blood is almost one of the necessary ingredients for eating hot pot. Duck blood is cheap, but it tastes good. Some hot pot restaurants will sell artificial duck blood to customers as fresh duck blood. So how to distinguish between true and false duck blood?

First, you can observe the color of duck blood. Fresh duck blood is red, and artificial duck blood is brown. Although the color of some artificial duck blood is very realistic, it can be seen that the color is different from the real duck blood by careful observation.

Real duck blood is easy to cook, and it is easy to be broken by chopsticks after being cooked in hot pot for a period of time, while artificial duck blood is not easy to be broken by chopsticks because of adding some chemicals.

The real duck blood tastes tender and smooth, and it feels like tofu just out of the pot. Chew slowly and feel a faint fragrance. However, the artificial duck blood adds a lot of chemical components, which makes it chewy and Q-elastic.

The above is the method I summarized for you to distinguish between true and false duck blood. Food safety has always been an issue we all attach great importance to. I hope all food producers and sellers can really pay attention to this problem and give priority to the health of our consumers.