Mr. Chen passed to our reporter video screenshots, video shows cooked "rice" can not be broken

Yangcheng Evening News reporter Wu Shan

Recently, a "plastic rice" video exploded on the Internet, some netizens suspect that their own rice is also made of plastic. The so-called "plastic rice" incident is actually a rumor that has been circulating for a long time, the State Food and Drug Administration said in a special report on its official wechat account "China Food and Medicine Wen" on Sunday.

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reporter discovery, "plastic rice" the video is about two minutes long. In the video, a man constantly put plastic bags into a machine, after melting, drawing, cutting and other processes, rice granular white solid is produced. Due to the low pixels of the video, it is impossible to clearly see the difference between the white rice solid and rice. According to the video text, this is how the fake rice is made.

After the video went viral online, many people discussed their rice in a wechat group. Yesterday, Mr. Chen, a Chaozhou citizen, reported to the reporter of Yangcheng Evening News that after watching the video, he suspected that his rice was "plastic rice". His reason is that the rice he just bought is more transparent than ordinary rice, and after cooking, he will put a few grains in his hands to knead it, and it can't be kneaded. After kneading, the rice was still elastic, much like plastic.

Chen said the rice is a brand rice bought from a local supermarket and costs 5 yuan per jin. However, Chen added, "The rice smells like rice. You can chew it and eat it without any discomfort." When he took the rice to the supermarket, staff could not explain the reason and had to return it.

For "plastic rice", some netizens also expressed doubts. Mr. Zhang, a Guangzhou resident, said he had seen the machine in the video: "My brother's factory has such a production line, which is to make plastic pellets. Pellets are semi-finished products, recycled plastics, which are usually used to make toys and other products."

The cost of plastic is higher than normal rice

7 noon, the State Food and Drug Administration in its official wechat "China Food and Drug Wen" to refute the rumor: "You see all kinds of" plastic rice "rumors here."

According to the post, "plastic rice" is a rumor that has been circulating for a long time. As early as 2011, there was a rumor on social media outside China that "plastic rice

is being made in China". Later, many netizens and experts pointed out that the so-called "plastic rice" was not used as food.

In 2015, another version of "plastic rice", "Cotton rice", appeared online. The rumor claimed that rotten cotton was used to make rice. The rumor was later dispelled that the so-called "cotton" was actually some kind of plastic or chemical fiber, not the real thing. When cotton is melted, it becomes as inflexible as mud and can't be pulled and cut into grains.

In November 2016, rumors of "plastic rice" once again went viral on social platforms, and many media outlets refuted the rumors one after another.

Recently, the rumor of "plastic rice" has appeared again, and some rumor articles, pictures and videos in the past have been spread on the Internet. In this regard, many netizens and media have pointed out that this kind of "plastic rice" is not only easy to detect, the cost is higher than normal rice, and there is no need for businesses to use plastic to replace fake rice.

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