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Don’t Get Duped: Six Foods That Might Not Be The Real Deal

Original story at Food & Think• 3 mentions • 4 months ago

 
 

Made from vinyls and plastics, these fake foods on display in Japan aren’t the only fakes around. Photo by Lombroso, courtesy of wikimediaIs that hunk of white tuna sushi actually escolar, a cheaper fish associated with its own kind of food poisoning?And is your age-defying pomegranate juice just plain-old grape juice with a splash of the good stuff?After winning a seat in the pantheon of so-called “super foods,” pomegranates got a burst of popularity, with consumers craving everything from fresh seeds to juices and teas. But its newfound fame also found it the victim of an age-old problem: food fraud. According to the non-profit organization

 

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