11 Of The Most Faked Foods In The World | Big Business | Business Insider Marathon

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  @BusinessInsider · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @sharfraz6482 · 1 year ago

  Forget weed farms, I&apos;m gonna start a wasabi and truffle business

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  @Livlifetaistdeth · 3 years ago

  Anyone buying a Parmigiano shaker thinking it&apos;s real Parmigiano cheese has much bigger problems than believing their cheese is really authentic Parmigiano cheese.

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  @josealfonsocontretas5724 · 3 years ago

  Yes blame the consumer, it&apos;s all their fault, because they buy the stuff that&apos;s allowed to be sold to them. Let&apos;s not talk about the &quot;alleged&quot; corruption that allows the fake and poisoned food to be on store shelfs.

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  @AyaBrea_ · 1 year ago

  My family has a mango farm with centennial trees planted by my mother&apos;s great grandfather, beside other farms in the area with other similarly aged trees. We take pride in having some of the best mangoes our country exports. About a decade ago, beekeepers started popping up in our village selling honey locally. One thing we all noticed is that, the bees, who frequent our mango farms, produced honey with a mango aroma. This honey isnt really sold nationwide let alone worldwide, but we support their businesses a lot and it&apos;s become one of our favorite things to gift people. It&apos;s always fun seeing their pleasant surprise when they taste the mango in the pure unflavored honey 🥹

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  @alg003 · 3 years ago

  Love that companies can just get away with literally false advertising and illegal practices with 0 consequences because of money

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  @taniasalu2405 · 2 years ago

  I discovered, by accident, our family farm in Croatia grew truffles. We were talking about porcini&apos;s, which grow there in that tegion, and my father mentioned &apos;we grow those other mushrooms too, you know the ones pigs go crazy for.&apos; He said they used to let the pigs dig them up and eat them because nobody in the family liked those black &apos;smelly&apos; mushrooms. The look on his face was priceless, after I explained just what they were, and their monetary value.

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  @offlineable · 2 years ago

  I honestly don&apos;t mind imitation products as long as they taste good and won&apos;t hurt me, but I DO mind is being lied to and potentially poisoned by greedy companies.

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  @lisadolan689 · 1 year ago

  This is another reason why I love Australia. We have the strictest food safety and labelling laws in the world. ☺️

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  @mathiasm8489 · 2 years ago

  Biggest problem is that misleading labels are legal.

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  @Arqan93 · 3 years ago (edited)

  My Grandfather is a hobbyist beekeeper. He generally has around 18 to 20 active beehives and specializes in raspberry honey, as there are large raspberry fields nearby. The honey his bees produce is unlike any other I have ever tried. It&apos;s almost as if you took the smell of a blooming raspberry garden and closed it in a jar. His bees produce around 300-350kg of that honey every year and it goes for around ~20$/kg, so it&apos;s really quite expensive. But it sells out so quickly, people make reservations 2 years in advance. It&apos;s completely worth it though - the taste is amazing and it will never spoil unless you contaminate the jar.<br><br>Every summer I spend a weekend or two helping him maintain the apiary and it&apos;s such a relaxing experience. Over the last 10 years I got stung maybe a dozen times and I don&apos;t even bother with protective clothing. Bees really are precious critters and need to be protected.

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  @marryc9394 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The worst part isn’t even the fact that it is literally fraud, but that committing the fraud hurts the industries that actually makes the real stuff, thus stunting their potential growth and the global supply of the authentic products. :/

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