What could be better in the morning than a cup of aromatic and invigorating coffee. But in order to fully enjoy your morning coffee, you need to choose it correctly, excluding the purchase of a fake.
Instructions
Step 1
The coffee industry has been experiencing the problem of real coffee counterfeiting for a long time. After the monopoly on foreign economic activity was abolished, the flow of counterfeits increased many times over and literally flooded the food market.
Step 2
The greed for profit pushes fraudsters into many tricks and tricks. They can add various impurities to coffee, they are especially good at forging ground coffee. An expensive variety can be mixed with additives that will be environmentally friendly and safe, but the taste and aroma of coffee will be significantly spoiled. Such impurities can be cheaper varieties of a drink, grated fruit and berry seeds, chicory and even animal liver and acorns, grated and then refried.
Step 3
You can recognize a counterfeit ground coffee by sprinkling a small amount of it on the sheet. On a white background, it will be easy to see if there are impurities or not. Small differences in the colors and sizes of the grains will indicate to you a fake. If you pour coffee into a glass of cold water, then all the impurities will settle at the bottom. In addition, a fake drink can also give off an unpleasant or unusual smell to coffee.
Step 4
It is also very easy to counterfeit instant coffee. High-quality instant coffee can be distinguished from fake coffee by its packaging. The packaging of a counterfeit product will have little to say about the product, and there will certainly be no labeling. And the packaging itself usually has a nondescript appearance.
Step 5
It is extremely difficult to counterfeit grain coffee, but even here craftsmen use their tricks. When buying coffee from vending machines, be aware that the vending machine cannot recognize where which coffee is and will pour you what is charged into it.
