Hate to break it to you, but your truffle oil wasn’t made from truffles. Your vanilla extract? Well, that’s probably just a lab-made derivative of crude oil. And your shaker of Parmesan cheese? It probably has wood pulp inside. You might feel the companies behind these food products are using deceptive packaging — but it’s legal. However, there’s a whole other level of trickery that’s completely illegal: food fraud. That’s when criminals bottle up corn syrup and call it 100% honey, or when they pass off cheap mozzarella as pure Parmigiano-Reggiano. Globally, the fraudulent food industry could be worth $40 billion. It hurts legitimate producers, funds criminal activities, and can even harm consumers. We head around the world to uncover how producers get away with food deception and how we can spot the real stuff.
0:00 Intro
1:08 Truffles
3:44 Maple Syrup
5:19 Wasabi
7:42 Parmesan Cheese
11:15 Vanilla
12:58 Caviar
14:40 Honey
17:30 Olive Oil
20:04 Wagyu Beef
22:20 Coffee
24:05 Saffron
25:58 How criminals get away with selling fakes
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Yes, as mentioned before, but in other words:
You don’t get proper bread/pizza, pesto, etc. containing industrial biofuel, instead of olive oil. This is unfortunally standard today. I only buy oil free bread today, but it has become rare …
Proper peanut oil can be used for frying (fries, veg’s, meat, …), making it alot healthier, but in the West, the price is high due to market strategies. If peanut oil actually would have been expensive to produce, poor people in Asia couldn’t afford using it for cooking, but they do and we do not lack peanut farms in the West …
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Every fine print I look at here these days the oil is canola. The bread is rubbish & sadly what poor families feed their kids.
A few years back (when I was a little less enlightened) I purchased what I thought was peanut oil … turned out to be only a tiny percentage peanut … the rest I can’t remember.
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Canola don’t differ much from rape seed oil, other than it is GMO. it’s farmful biofuel either way.
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Exactly! The canola.
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