How to distinguish real – fake incense? Illustration Mr. Bien Quoc Dung, Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Agarwood Association: Raw materials for making agarwood products today are mainly natural and artificial incense. However, natural frankincense is very precious, rare, high cost, so very few establishments make products from this type of agar. The main product is made from artificial agarwood, which is gourd plant grown and cultivated with agarwood. It takes 10 years for the seedlings to be planted until the time they can be drilled. After transplanting agarwood, it takes about 5 years to create agarwood, but not every tree after transplanting produces agarwood, the success rate is relatively low. Therefore, artificial bass is also very precious and the price is quite high. One characteristic of basswood is that it is very soft, so it is difficult to use machines to mass-produce items such as bass rings that have to be done by hand. The grain is mass-produced mechanically, not of agarwood. Producers often use chemicals with a deep odor to seep into wood grains to imitate agarwood. To distinguish, the simplest way is to directly smell the product, if at first there is an alcohol smell, or a strong aroma, it is a chemical impregnated product. Because a really deep smell is usually faint, mild, it takes a new temperature to release the fragrance. Another trick often offered by the seller to lure customers is to put the series of bass rings in the water. If the circle sinks, it proves it is deep However, the agarwood wood is not only soft but also light, so it will float on the water, of course there are still pieces of wood submerged in the water, which are pieces of wood with many deep essential oils crystallized from many years. The cost of this type of submerged bass is very high, each ring made from this type of bass is the lowest at 400 million VND / chain. According to the Life science

There are year round in our country, but bananas are also one of the regular chemical soaked fruits. According to the experience of small businesses, if a banana is ripe, but its stalk is still green or plastic, it is more likely that a banana is ripe. Photo: Vietnamnet Ripe banana peel has eye-catching yellow color, smooth. Meanwhile, naturally ripe bananas have a dark yellow skin with small black or brown spots. Photo: Hai Phong security newspaper. Around April and May are avocado in season. Avocado is sold on sidewalks, supermarkets, local markets … The avocado shell is soft and long-haul, if the fruit is ripe, it will be crushed and crushed. Therefore, small traders can chemically soak the fresh avocado with chemicals. Photo: Internet To distinguish impregnated avocado, a gardener said, green avocado, the stalk is green, the avocado stalks will turn dark. If the stalk is still green and the avocado body is soft, the avocado has been chemically aged. Photo: Internet To choose safe and delicious durian, consumers need to pay close attention to the stalk and the prickly part. The hard, green stalks will just drop, and the old stalks that are stained or withered may have been soaked with medicine to promote ripe fruit. Photo: Internet Ripe durian spines will bloom green, yellow and gray. Meanwhile, pickled durian prickles early, soaked for a long time, they will not bloom, bruise in many places. Photo: Labor capital. Mangoes are also frequently contaminated with chemicals. Ripe mangoes due to stimulant drugs often ripen unevenly, the fruit has no fragrance, and has black stalks. Photo: Internet Delicious ripe mangoes have stalks still firm, not soft. If the stem of the mango has a strong sweet aroma, the aroma of essential oils means the mango is fresh, no chemicals. Photo: Internet To distinguish ripe jackfruit and ripe jackfruit, can be based on observing the jackfruit fruit. Ripe jackfruit plants rarely have pus, while ripe jackfruit is pressed with white pus flowing in each stream. Photo: Cooky. In addition, ripe jackfruit plants often have a characteristic aroma, ripe jackfruit must smell carefully to have a faint scent. Photo: Internet Video: HCMC: 1.3 tons of snails soaked in industrial chemicals before selling. Source: PLO

1. Cabbage Cabbage is one of the vegetables with nutritional value, so many women choose for daily meals. But this vegetable has a lot of worms, only needing 1-2 days for worms to destroy the whole garden. So before buying, you should take it to feel the smell of cabbage. If there is a strange smell, absolutely should not buy. The type wrapped in a mesh bag, round, dark green should also be avoided because this is Chinese cabbage. 2. Tomatoes In October and November, the tomato season is in full bloom, but this is a fruit that is susceptible to poisoning because in order for tomatoes to be evenly ripe and beautiful, growers often use drugs to ripen the fruit. To avoid “eating a bowl of porridge, running three intervals”, you just choose to buy green tomatoes to bring back, wait for them to ripen and then use them to heal. 3. Cucumber Vegetables that only need one fruit, you can make a variation of 7749 delicious dishes. But cucumbers have long been thought to be such a chemical spraying fruit that “ranks second, no one dares to be No. 1”. The chemicals are easily absorbed through the melon peel, so even if you take the peel clean before eating, it is not certain that you have completely removed the harmful substances. 4. Bitter melon Bitter melon is very susceptible to pests, so growers often use chemicals to limit pests. When buying, it is best to look for fruits that are small, long, with many tiny tendons on the body. Do not be foolish, but choose large bitter melon fruit, dark green, cool. Because of “deadly sweet nectar”, these are the fruits that are abused by chemicals the most. 5. Water spinach Are you surprised? The familiar vegetables in most family dishes are so susceptible to pests and diseases that, vegetable growers often have to use pesticides and growth drugs to control them. When you buy water spinach, do not choose the green, plump, fat, and long bundles. Because this is a type of insecticide contaminated with many insecticides, the growth drug is unable to eat, eating it is like killing yourself.

Illustration. Such a delicious fruit has such health benefits, it is no wonder why women are infatuated with this dish. However, in order to choose a delicious fruit, it is also necessary to have a tip, otherwise it is easy for women to choose the wrong fruits, not delicious. How to choose plums to choose delicious fruit, not drug-coated? Here are some ways to choose delicious plums: Rely on the outer shell The appearance of the plum is largely determined by the flesh of the fruit. Choose to buy fresh plums, preferably stalks and leaves, round, not bruised, not deep. Also, do not buy plums with insect stings or nail stains because they are very susceptible to bacterial infestation. A delicious plum will have a plump, smooth skin and a white chalk coating. Plums are covered with white chalk, indicating that freshly picked plums will be more delicious. Choose plums with mixed green and red colors When choosing to buy plums, you should not choose to buy plums that are too green or reddish in color, but only choose berries that are mixed with these two colors, which are both crispy and sweet. If the fruit is too green, it will be sour, and the red fruit can be ripe too ripe and no longer crispy, if you like sweet, you can choose a red bruise. We can judge the quality of plums with a glass of water. Pick a plum and place the plum in a glass of water. If it is found that plums float on the surface of the water for a long time, it means that the plums are potentially poisonous or have ripening agents. If the plums do not float on the water, that means the plums can be eaten normally and without chemicals, you can buy them at ease. How to preserve plums After buying, you should store fresh plums in the refrigerator so that the plums are always fresh and delicious. Plums should not be placed in hot, high, humid places, which will make plums ripen quickly and not be delicious. Prunes before eating need to be washed with salt water several times, you can use them to cook into many different delicacies. Plum mixed with salt and chili salt or chili is a favorite dish of many women. In addition, this fruit is also used by many women to soak drinking water as well as make jam to eat bread.