Category: Food/Cooking Question Description: How to distinguish real and fake bird's nests? Are they made of plastic? Analysis: High-quality bird's nests should feel dry to the touch.

Wet bird's nests contain more water and will become moldy if not stored properly.

Be aware of shrinkage rates and markups on packaging.

You should buy it from a local reputable famous store and read the quality guarantee certificate clearly.

Indonesian bird's nests account for 80% of the world's bird's nest production. The bird's nests in the nest factory are clean and plump, delicate and smooth, and have a rich fragrance.

Please grasp the following points when identifying bird's nests without a laboratory: 1. The bird's nest should have a filamentous structure, and those made of piece structures are not real bird's nests; pure bird's nests are not completely transparent after being soaked or viewed under light, but are semi-transparent.

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2. Smell: Bird's nest has a unique fragrance, but there is no strong smell.

Those with a special smell, fishy or greasy smell are fake; 3. Touch: take a small piece of bird's nest and soak it in water. After it is soft, take a silk strip and pull it. If it has poor elasticity and breaks when you pull it, it is fake; rub it with your fingers.

, those that have no elasticity and can be kneaded into a paste are also fake.

4. Burn: Use fire to ignite the dried bird's nest pieces. If it is a real bird's nest, there will never be any violent splashing sparks.

Reference article: What is a good bird’s nest?

nesorks/intro/detail?id=338 Laboratory bird's nest inspection method nesorks/include/detail?id=213 6 common fake bird's nests and their microscopic characteristics (attached: major news about fake bird's nests reported by the media in recent years) 1.

Agar-agar fake bird's nest: It is a fake product made of agar-agar and added with a concoction.

This product is in the form of tablets.

The surface is yellow-white or yellow, slightly transparent and shiny.

After being soaked in water, it first disperses into fragments and gradually turns into particles without swelling.

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Tremella fake bird's nest: The fruiting body of the fungus Tremella fusiforis Berk. is dried and made into fine granules, and the dried product is mixed with egg white.

This product is in the form of scattered small flakes or irregular small pieces.

The surface is yellow-white or light yellow, slightly transparent and slightly shiny.

It swells slightly after being soaked in water and has poor elasticity.

3.

Pig skin fake bird's nest: The skin of the pig Sus scrapa domestica Brlsson is fried or stir-fried, and then made into fine granules. It is a dried product mixed with egg white.

This product is in the form of broken pieces, granules or processed into hemispherical shapes.

The surface is yellow-white or light yellow, rough, slightly transparent, and slightly shiny.

It swells slightly after being soaked in water and looks like a sponge.

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Fake bird's nest processed with starch: It is an imitation bird's nest processed with starch.

This product is in the form of long strips or irregular blocks.

Yellowish-white or light yellow, rough and horny on the outside and network-like on the inside.

It swells slightly after being soaked in water and has glue properties.

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Soy flour fake bird's nest: It is an imitation bird's nest processed with soy flour.

This product is in the shape of long strips or loofahs.

The surface is yellowish-white or brownish-yellow, slightly shiny.

It swells slightly after being immersed in water and is slightly gluey.

Fake bird’s nests made from plant branches and leaves 6.

Fake plant branches and leaves.

This product is in the form of round or oval lumps.

The surface is yellow-green or brown, rough, and stems and leaves are clearly visible.

Attachment: Major news about fake bird's nests reported by the media in recent years: 1. "Xinmin Evening News" published an article on November 22, 2003, "Bird's nests in tourist destinations are of high price and low quality": According to Mr. Jiang, not long ago, his daughter participated in an event organized by a family.

The travel company organized a group tour to "Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand" for seven days.

While traveling in Thailand, the female tour guide took the tourists to a bird's nest agency center for shopping. Her daughter spent 2,800 baht (about 700 yuan) to buy a box of bird's nests weighing more than 2 grams, intending to honor her parents and let the elderly replenish them.

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Unexpectedly, the old man followed the instructions and soaked one-tenth of the amount, and found that this box of bird's nests, which was several times more expensive than gold, actually contained many impurities, and hair was picked out, making it inedible.

For this reason, the old man went to Shanghai No. 1 Medical Store for identification and concluded that the goods were fake and shoddy.

When Mr. Jiang's daughter heard the news, she looked depressed and became very unhappy.

2. CCTV's "Focus Interview" broadcast on the evening of October 28, 2004, a column reporter secretly visited a famous small commodity wholesale market to sell fake bird's nests and fake honey. The reporter saw that the wholesale price of shark's fin bird's nests made of Tremella fungus was only 1 per bottle.

More than 1 yuan, the ex-factory price is only 0.45 yuan.

Column warning: "Most of the prices of dried bird's nests on the market range from thirty to forty yuan to one hundred yuan per gram. You can only buy more than 10 mg of the cheapest dried bird's nest for 45 cents." 3. Hong Kong TVBS and more

A TV station reported that a large number of fake bird's nests were seized in the Hong Kong market in October 2004.

During the two-day operation, 15 retail shops and warehouses across Hong Kong were raided, and more than 30,000 bottles of fake bird's nests under three brands with a total market value of about NT$2.1 million were seized, and four women and one man were arrested.