Mysuru: The city has been hit by artificial eggs, allegedly made of plastic. The case of fake eggs came into light after a resident of Hootagalli KHB Colony purchased eggs from a shop yesterday noon.
Nagaraju, a security guard at IT major Infosys, purchased two eggs from a shop to prepare egg fried rice. According to Nagaraju, the moment he broke the egg to mix it with rice, an oil-like substance came out. He said that though the eggs had a yolk-like substance, it did not smell like egg.
As he mixed the eggs to the rice, the usual flavour and texture was missing with the oil-like substance remaining in that state. Nagaraju then came back to the shop and complained to the shopkeeper who gave him another two eggs which were fine.
The World Wide Web (WWW) and the social media term these eggs as ‘Chinese’ eggs and some reports suggest that they are coming in from Tamil Nadu. Both the real and fake eggs look similar. However, on closely observing, one can find that the shell of the fake egg is slightly harder and rougher than that of a real one and there is a rubbery lining inside the shell.
Fake eggs do not have the typical smell and do not attract ants or flies and when you fry a fake egg, the yolk spreads without being touched unlike a real egg.
These fake eggs are made by mixing sodium alginate to warm water, and then adding gelatin, alum and benzoic acid to the mixture. The same mixture is used to make both the yolk and white, by adding a yellow colouring agent. To make the fake egg membrane calcium chloride is added to it. The shell is made from calcium carbonate, paraffin wax and gypsum powder.
Sorry, even Chinese themselves do not know about these fake eggs. To get a real egg from a hen will cost you anything between 2 to 3 rupees an to manufacture one you may have to spend double this a least if not a lot more. So, actually these eggs are hard frozen eggs to retain their shelf life. Keep an egg in a hard freezer for a week and check its consistency. As for the chemical formula you have given is only an illusary imagination, it simply does not a build an egg under salable cost. Sorry, the guy bought just the old frozen eggs that had rotted long ago.
fake eggs do exist .
just type ‘ how to make artificial/fake egg ‘ on youtube and watch yourself.
Not only fake eggs but artificial cabbages and rice are also being sold in market.
I don’t believe that fake eggs exist. The cost must be higher than real? Why they will make?
Agree. Fake egg is a fake concept. Why will anyone manufacture fake egg at high cost and sell at 5 rupees. Would rather sell Kinder joy for 40 rupees 😉
These are the products of China! If we are thinking in business terms, it sounds like it is costlier than the natural egg! But we have to remember, Chinese are manufacturing all kinds of scary products and may be all the raw materials of these eggs China is not buying, but may be industrial or biological wastes that they are trying to dump! China has a lot of unused manufacturing capacity! Even prisoners make up for a large unpaid workorce! So, the logic of profitability doesn’t work the same as like India!Today, China is a leading manufacturer of spurious dugs, thanks to our greedy businesses, they have an ever increasing demand for countries like India and Pakistan! There was a news item that they even supply spurious milk that is nothing but a concoction of health hazard items that imitates milk! So, both central and state government should take this issue seriously and investigate to expose the criminals rather than getting the advise from our communist friends!