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Recently you may have read an article about fake rice that is produced in China. Believe it or not, some rice is made using plastic additives. And nobody is doing anything about it.
Of course, as a health advocate, a researcher focused on food and its processing, I thought this had gone too far.
Plastic rice? Even consuming a small amount of plastic has terrible consequences for the digestive system and hormones.
BPA (bisphenol) in plastic mimics estrogen. This hormone increases at rocket speed after ingesting BPA. Eat plastic rice and you are essentially asking to die young, for example from breast cancer.
Every now and then, when I hear the kinds of craziness being done in China, I always become alert and prefer to avoid foods that come from there.
One must think not only about what can happen during the transportation of food from the other side of the world (possible exposure to toxic substances or contamination), but also about what some Chinese manufacturers do to food.
They falsify everything to the extreme to make it as cheap as possible. China uses its “innovative” methods not only to produce technologically cheap products, toys or other consumer goods, but also food.
This approach is extremely dangerous to people’s health. Let’s now look at which foods are the most risky.
1. Tilapia fish
Tilapia is a fish commonly farmed in China. These fish are some of the filthiest, most poisonous and unhealthiest fish you can encounter.
Tilapia will eat anything. A fish farm for rearing looks like a small pool of wastewater in which tilapia live. It is one of the worst fish you could buy.
It is generally known that Chinese seafood farmers do not allow their children to eat seafood from their own farms. Is that clear now? 80% of the tilapia you find on shelves in Europe or America comes from China.
2. Cod
Cod is another species of fish that is farmed in China. This fish is not healthy and lives in its own waste.
Currently more than 50% of cod on Western markets comes from China.
3. Chinese apple juice
Believe it or not, about 50% of the apple juice sold in the West comes from China.
China is the world’s largest country in terms of pesticide production. Paradoxically, it still has not begun to address pesticides or chemical residues in food.
We recommend that you completely avoid apple juice unless you are sure where it comes from. Fruit juices are too rich in sugar and in order to maintain low blood sugar levels you will do better if you mix them with vegetable juice or plain water.
4. Processed mushrooms
American inspectors found that mushrooms from China were rotten. Some producers in China go so far as to label these processed mushrooms as organic to increase their profits.
If you search in your browser for the phrase “mysterious mushrooms” in China, you’ll find that their mushrooms are complete counterfeits. Meanwhile 34% of processed mushrooms come from China.
Do yourself the favor of finding out everything about the source of the goods you buy. Shop from local domestic producers and only truly organic (bio), natural products!
5. Chinese garlic
American inspectors also found Chinese rotten garlic. Garlic from China is sprayed with chemicals more than necessary and leaves such a bad taste in the mouth, as if you were eating some chemical mix.
30% of the garlic sold in the West comes from China.
6. Chicken
Many food safety experts are concerned about the quality of imported chicken because China is a country where avian flu outbreaks are common.
Foodborne transmission is also common. In addition, China produces more pesticides than any other country in the world.
China is contaminated by pesticides as well as by byproducts of mass production and industrial pollution.
7. Plastic rice
As we already mentioned, fake plastic rice is produced. It is believed that it is actually made from potatoes and fake synthetic resin.
Boiled plastic rice remains hard and does not cook like real rice. It is assumed that the long-term effects of this food may be carcinogenic.
8. Mud (sold as pepper)
A Chinese seller collected mud and sold it as pepper. In addition, he took flour and sold it as white pepper. Call it what you want and sell it!
China does not have an adequate regulatory system in place for food safety.
9. Industrial salt
Industrial salt is not suitable for consumption. Nevertheless, it has been sold as table salt for 13 years!
If industrial salt enters the human body, it can cause mental and physical problems, thyroid issues, and reproductive system disorders.
10. Green peas
Here is another crazy item from the global repertoire… A T-shirt could read “Only in China.” In 2005 a counterfeit green pea was found in China and it is quite possible that it is still being produced today.
This fake pea was made from soybeans, green dye and sodium metabisulfite (a chemical used as a bleach and as a preservative).
This dye is banned from use in food production because it is carcinogenic and prevents the body’s natural ability to absorb calcium.
Similarly to the case of plastic rice, this green pea does not soften when cooked. In addition, the water in which it is boiled turns an unnaturally green color. Avoid green peas from China.
Conclusion
In my humble opinion, foods produced in China are among the worst you can get on this planet. As we have already mentioned, China produces more pesticides than any other country in the world.
From that it can follow that your food may have come into contact with a high amount of pesticides during production. China is one of the most polluted regions of the world.
70% of rivers are polluted, the air is toxic and total production volume leaves behind a quantity of toxic chemicals and byproducts, such as wastes leaking into the environment.
Just imagine, the air in Beijing is so polluted that inhaling it actually causes lung damage equivalent to smoking 40 cigarettes a day.
This is stated by a 2015 study. Want to buy goods from China? Avoid them.
How can you tell if your apple juice, garlic or mushrooms are from China? That’s hard to say. Sometimes their origin is labeled, sometimes not. Therefore we recommend that you buy your foods at your local farmers’ market.
Get to know your farmer or supplier personally. Ask questions, inquire about the origin of the food. Ask and spend time reading and doing your own research.
