Red caviar for 200 rubles: or how street vendors deceive us.

On the eve of the New Year holidays, each hostess simply knocks off her feet to surprise and delight her household and guests with a variety of dishes on the table. What is not prepared to adequately spend the old year and meet the new one! But the invariable attribute of the New Year's table is red caviar.

And here the most interesting thing begins: everyone wants to buy the coveted jar of caviar, but finances do not always allow them to do this. This fact is used by scammers who fill the streets and markets on New Year's Eve, offering cheap caviar. Many people believe them and buy this product.

The most interesting thing is that the sellers even offer to try their product using a jar of natural caviar. In appearance, caviar also resembles natural products. The jars in which the products are sold are also not fake at first glance.

Metal and glass jars of caviar cost 200-300 rubles. The manufacturer is indicated on them: Sakhalin, LLC Persey. If you check on the worldwide network, then you will see that this is a real organization with good customer reviews. The jar indicates that the caviar is made according to GOST. It contains all the necessary information about the storage time and temperature. The composition of the product is also beyond doubt. True, the code numbers are not all legible, but this also happens on genuine products.

Tempted by the price, I nevertheless bought one jar of caviar. At home, having opened it, I decided to carry out all the manipulations known to me to determine the authenticity of the product.

To make sure that the eggs are real, I carefully examined them. Inside each one can see dark spots - embryos: this is as it should be, because caviar is a fish egg. The smell slightly embarrassed: the caviar smelled of some kind of algae.

Then I put some eggs in a cup and poured hot water. An oil stain appeared on the surface of the water and there was no smell, and real caviar emits an unpleasant odor if it is poured over with hot water.

Then I decided to taste my purchase. I spread butter on the bread and caviar on top. Grains of some kind of red powder appeared on the oil. If the caviar is natural, this should not be the case. Considering that the water with which I poured the caviar remained transparent, we conclude that this powder is not a dye. Then what is this substance? How dangerous is it for human health?

I decided to take a chance and took a bite: the taste did not stand next to red caviar. The eggs themselves also burst, like the real ones, but they are still strikingly different from the taste of real chum salmon caviar.

Later, on the well-known site of announcements for the sale, I found the sale of exactly the same jars of caviar at a price of 30 rubles per jar with a wholesale purchase of 5 boxes. In a box of 108 cans, a profit of 18,360 rubles per box comes out, agree not bad!

We conclude that you should not buy caviar in unverified places. If you want to buy this valuable product cheaper, wait for the promotion and purchase the jar you want in advance: the shelf life of caviar allows it to be stored in the refrigerator for a long time.

Happy New Year!

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