According to relevant personages in the industry, to identify artificial eggs, first of all, from the perspective of eggshells, the eggshells of artificial eggs are particularly smooth. After peeling, you can find that egg white is not sticky, easy to mix with egg yolk, and smells like chemicals. Real eggs smell. It is reported that artificial eggs cost 5 cents each, and the lowest price is 2 cents. 1 person produces about 1, 500 eggs every day.
According to insiders, the shell of artificial eggs is made of calcium carbonate, and the yolk and egg white are made of sodium alginate, alum, gelatin, edible calcium chloride, water and pigment.
The method comprises the following steps: firstly, a certain amount of sodium alginate is poured into a basin of warm water and stirred to form a protein-like object; Mixing with gelatin; Adding sodium benzoate, alum and other chemicals to make protein; Adding lemon yellow pigment to egg yolk; Adding calcium chloride, mixing, pouring into a mold to form an egg shape, and making an egg film; Eggshell is made of paraffin, gypsum powder, calcium carbonate, etc.
Artificial eggs are all chemical components, mainly using the calcification of sodium alginate, and at most they are a gel. Alum and gelatin are usually only used as food additives and auxiliary materials, and the use method and dosage of additives are clearly stipulated in national standards, but they have become the main components in artificial eggs, which are not good for human body and worse than real eggs in nutrition. At the same time, relevant experts pointed out that calcium chloride is also divided into food grade and industrial grade, and so is pigment, and these artificial egg manufacturers are underground factories, so it is difficult to say what raw materials are used in these factories.