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Everyone loves sour cream and adds it to various dishes. However, this product is often counterfeit. Therefore, you should know how to distinguish real sour cream from fake. This is reported by the advice book, writes agronews.ua.
Real sour cream has a uniform cream shade. There should be no spots on the surface, but it should not be shiny. The consistency should be thick. Fakes are made of high quality, so it is not always possible to distinguish where real sour cream is. In that case, there are effective methods that you should use.
Substitutes and additives are added to counterfeits. It can be palm oil and starch. If these ingredients are listed on the product, it means that the sour cream is not real.
Sour cream can also be tested for the presence of palm oil. To do this, leave the product for 1/3 day at room temperature. If there are vegetable fats in the sour cream, its smell and consistency will not change, but a yellowish film can be seen on the surface.
To check the starch content of sour cream, you need to add a few drops of iodine to the product, then the sour cream will turn dark gray if it contains starch. Real sour cream should be light brown in color.
Sour cream can also be tested using boiling water. Take 1 tbsp. To. the product and mix in a bowl with boiling water. The fake will not dissolve and sink to the bottom in lumps or rise in flakes. Real sour cream should be dissolved in hot water and colored in a milky shade.
If you know how to test sour cream, you can avoid fakes. To check the freshness of the sour cream, just taste it. Spoiled food becomes bitter, crumbles, bubbles with gas are formed in it, the color changes and an unpleasant smell appears.
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