There are many forms of rice, and artificial rice can also produce similar shapes, and the smell difference is small, which is not particularly easy to distinguish. Under normal circumstances, artificial rice will be written on the packaging of artificial rice, and we don't need to identify it ourselves.

It should be noted that artificial rice is not only a fake and shoddy product, but also adds various nutritional elements for people in need to buy. The cost and nutritional value are not less than natural rice, and there is no need for merchants to "pretend" natural rice with artificial rice, because qualified artificial rice is also good rice.

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Rumors about artificial rice

There are many rumors on the Internet that artificial plastic rice is artificial rice, which is fake, harmful and inedible.

In fact, as far as the current technical level is concerned, there is no counterfeiting technology that can mix plastic components into rice. The video of the so-called machine producing plastic rice circulating on the Internet is a means of plastic recycling. Moreover, the cost of recycling plastic particles is much more expensive than ordinary rice, and there is no benefit in counterfeiting.

So sometimes you will buy some inferior, or old rice, or broken rice, there is basically no so-called fake and shoddy artificial rice. When purchasing rice, try to choose rice with full and complete grains, natural color and normal texture.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-artificial rice