The most counterfeit products in Russia for 2020

Going to the supermarket, the buyer expects to buy natural quality products. I agree to pay a high price, but purchase products from trusted brands. However, the price of the products does not always correspond to the declared quality. The reason for this is fakes.

The editors of the site "bestx.htgetrid.com/en/" offer you an overview of the most counterfeit products in Russia for 2020.

Counterfeit rating

Milk products

Unfortunately, according to the results of inspections by Rospotrebnadzor, two-thirds of the dairy products in Russian stores are fakes. Instead of milk-based natural, natural fat, manufacturers use vegetable fats.

Cheese

Most of the assortments of these products contain a high percentage of trans fats, which affect not only the quality of the product, its taste. The benefits of such cheese are much less than the harm that it causes to the body.

Sour cream

It is extremely difficult to find real sour cream in stores. Although it lists different percentages of fat, there are few natural ingredients.

Milk

There are also many counterfeits in this product. Among the components of substandard products, from which deaths were recorded, such a dangerous element as melamine was found.

Yogurt

Fermented milk product, preferred not only by children, but also by adults. Products of well-known companies are especially often falsified. Flavors, dyes mask quality.

Cottage cheese

In order to save on production, milk fat is replaced with vegetable fat, harmful to the body.

Whipped cream

Culinary experts, using store-bought cream when baking cakes, have no idea about the product being counterfeited. Milk in cream is often substituted for coconut oil, or corn syrup. Flavors, thickeners are added.

Top manufacturers

1. Belarusian company Danone, producer of Prostokvashino dairy products. The products have good taste at an affordable price.
2. Combine "Ostankinsky" with a wide range of safe tasty products.
3. Voronezh Plant is a popular manufacturer of high-quality dairy products.
4. The Wimm-Biel-Dann trading company with the Domik v Derevny trademark has earned the praise of customers for its delicious products.

Fish products

Caviar

Real caviar is a healthy delicacy enriched with a complex of vitamins and minerals. The extraction of this product, transportation, packaging directly affect the price policy of the product. The delicacy is far from accessible to few. Those who illegally extract caviar face criminal punishment. This valuable, useful product has long been learned to counterfeit, presenting customers as the original and earning big money. Black sturgeon caviar and red caviar are especially often duplicated.For the production of an artificial product, gelatin, dye, flavor, chicken protein, salt are used.

It is not difficult to identify a fake: fake caviar has a pronounced fish smell; deforms in water, changes shape; does not burst in the mouth, but melts; has a long shelf life. This product keeps a rounded shape, depending on the fish it has a different taste (bitter or delicate), does not dissolve in water.

Decent manufacturers of caviar analogs sell the product at a low budget price.

A fish

Experts advise buying fresh fish, the weight of the frozen product can be increased for the light of frozen ice. Choose carefully: instead of the desired type, they often offer an analogue or generally a dangerous product, such as gray mackerel containing poisonous substances. Most often, the substitution of expensive fish for cheap one occurs when packing fillets, when it is difficult to notice a fake at first glance. Smoked fish can be treated with the harmful liquid smoke carcinogen, which causes an allergic reaction and poisoning. Natural smoking is made with sawdust, it is more expensive and safe for health.

Canned food

To increase the shelf life of a fish product, people have mastered canning technology. At first, natural ingredients were used for this: salt, honey. Then it was preserved with wine, wine vinegar, ethyl alcohol. We gradually switched to synthetic preservatives, which, while maintaining an antibacterial environment in the jar, made it possible to preserve the product.

Here shoppers can be frustrated by breaking technology rules:

• when the sauce is put in a larger ratio than fish;
• when harmful preservatives are added;
• when the can is not properly sealed, which leads to oxidation of the metal.

Crab sticks

Most of the supermarket offers have only a name in this product. Instead of crab meat, producers use minced cod or, in order to save money, pollock. But there are often cases when tails and fish scales were used. Starch, preservatives, flavor enhancer, dye are also added. It is better to buy a product in the form of packages on which the date of manufacture and composition are written. Bulk items are more difficult to monitor for harmful ingredients that trigger an allergic reaction.

Lobster, shrimp

These delicacies are popular in expensive restaurants, but are often substituted for budget substitutes. Instead of lobster, shrimp, blue whiting or other cheap fish can be cooked. Real products may not please either. Cases of cultural cultivation of shrimp are known. In such individuals, antibiotics were found by specialists. This product is unhealthy. Antibiotics have a detrimental effect on the intestinal microflora and can provoke an allergic reaction. Buying a product frozen, a gourmet runs the risk of overpaying for ice.

Top manufacturers

1. The company "Three oceans", which has branches in cities such as Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It sells its products in large network marketers.
2. Russian manufacturer Rybny Dom, which sells both retail and wholesale seafood.
3. The BaltFishTrade company is a domestic supplier of seafood with a quality guarantee. It has established itself as a wide assortment, a pleasant ratio of price and quality.
4. The Russian brand Dary Artemida offers its customers first-class chilled and frozen seafood.

Drinking products

Mineral drinks

Mineral water is considered a valuable medicinal drink. Correct when it comes to this product. Mineral water, selected taking into account the prescribed diet or the level of gastric acid, as well as a complex of trace elements, is a drug for the body. And fake will not bring health benefits. If it's made by a responsible manufacturer, cleaned up, then hopefully it won't do much harm.

Bottled drinking water

In connection with the talk about the deterioration of the environment, drinking water in bottles has become more and more popular. In many offices, schools, healthcare institutions, coolers and disposable cups have appeared so that people can drink a clean drink instead of tap water. But it has not yet been revealed what percentage of counterfeits are offered to buyers on the market. There were cases when Roskontrol found such dangerous organisms as Pseudomonas aeruginosa in drinking water and in bottles.

Lemonade

In drinks that replace lemonade, you can often find the entire periodic table. A refreshing drink in such production not only does not quench thirst, but also harms the body with its dyes, sweeteners, and flavorings.

Juices

The juice industry offers customers a wide range of flavors. The companies produce reconstituted, clarified juices, juices with pulp, nectars, juice drinks. Such products should bring the body only the benefits of vitamins. But experts recommend drinking freshly squeezed juices, or even better, squeezing them yourself. There are many fakes in the food market in which real fruits cannot be found. Fruit ingredients are replaced with sugar beets, corn sugar. Citric acid, water, monosodium glutamate, food additives, dyes, flavors are added. The use of such juices is especially harmful for young children.

Alcoholic drinks

The most fake drinking drinks are those that contain alcohol. Enterprising manufacturers are replacing quality alcohol with methanol or methyl alcohol, which is a dangerous poison. The use of fake alcoholic beverages can kill a person, or turn him into a disabled person. Not only vodka products are counterfeited, but also wine drinks from well-known companies that have a fairly high price. The largest production of counterfeit vodka was recorded by inspection experts in Russia. Often such liquids are poured into bottles that cannot be drunk categorically. These can be bleaches or solvents.

Top manufacturers

1. The brands of bottled water under the names Arkhyz, Nestle Pure Life, Holy Spring, Evian, Senezhskaya, Lipetskaya received positive reviews.
2. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the Russian manufacturer Aqualife are considered the leaders of carbonated water.
3. When choosing a juice, consumers give preference to branded drinks under the names "Favorite Garden", "Sady Pridonya", "Dobry", "Rich".
4. Products of the following brands have become popular producers of alcoholic beverages: Smirnoff, Bacardi, Johnnie Walker, Absolut, Jack Daniels.

Meat products

Meat

Among the pieces of meat, you can often find scraps glued together with special glue. It is difficult, almost impossible to distinguish such a steak from a real product. But it is not recommended to eat it. This is a mixture of scraps, waste that manufacturers are sorry to write off. Meat glue - transglutaminase helps to connect the pieces into an appetizing tenderloin or steak, thus making money on the gullible buyer.

The second deception dangerous for the consumer is when an animal is raised in violation of animal husbandry technologies, overfed with antibiotics or growth hormones. Meat not only has an unpleasant odor, a strange taste, but also harms the human body, killing the intestinal microflora, provoking allergic reactions.

Sausages

More and more consumers prefer sausage, sausages, small sausages every year. The product requires a minimum of effort to bring to final readiness or is acceptable for use in its original form. The wide assortment offered by manufacturers will satisfy every taste. The popularity of sausages early on triggered the emergence of counterfeits. Pork, beef have learned to replace, at best, chicken meat. But the ingredients can be soy, starch, soy protein.

Pate

A product at a budget price with its composition may not please the buyer. For example, the percentage of meat content is less than 50 percent, there are many additives to extend the shelf life, improve taste, odor.Choosing products at a high price, consumers expect to get a high-quality pate, but they may be faced with a fake.

Top manufacturers

1. Consumers prefer sausages from the following manufacturers: Mikoyanovsky Meat Processing Plant, Starodvorskie Sausages, Ostankino, Cherkizovsky Meat Processing Plant, Velikoluksky Meat Processing Plant.
2. The leaders in the sale of meat products were the Cherkizovo meat processing plant, the Prioskolye holding company, Miratorg, Belgrankorm, and the Resurs poultry farm.
3. Most often, the stores buy pies of the brands "OK", "Rublevsky", "Krugosvet", "Argeta", "Setra".

Confectionery

Honey

Natural honey is a useful product with a healing effect. But they also learned to fake it. Replace natural ingredients with molasses, potato starch, sucrose. To make money on customers, manufacturers pass off cheap varieties for expensive ones, or dilute them with other extraneous ingredients.

Chocolate

Chocolate is substituted for chocolate bars that do not contain cocoa butter. It is replaced with vegetable oil: palm or coconut. This allows the product to be sold at a lower price. But such a product cannot be called useful, natural and safe.

Top manufacturers

1. According to the results of quality control, the following brands of honey passed the Russian control: "Altayskiy", "Honey House", "Dedushkin Uley", "Honey Land", "Mother Bee".
2. The rating of the best chocolate brands is presented by Lindt, A. Korkunov, Ritter Sport, Babaevsky, Milka, Alenka, Nesquik.

Food analogs

Along with natural products, manufacturers offer analog products to consumers at an affordable budget price. Holdings that protect their reputation, as well as guarantee the high quality of their offers, do not hide from buyers that the product is an analogue, therefore its composition is somewhat different from its expensive counterpart.

Analog food benefits:

Disadvantages:

Cheap goods are popular with consumers, as there are cheap offers that are not inferior in quality to expensive names.

These are recognized:

• pasta brand "Schebekinskie";
• tomato ketchup "Sloboda";
• condensed milk "Lady from Korenovka";
• instant coffee drink Clever;
• yeast-free puff pastry "Bread House";
• tea "May" high-mountainous.

Can you recognize a fake?

There are a number of rules that can help you find out if the product is original or fake:

1. The composition of the original product begins with the main ingredient, contains a minimum of additives, as well as detailed information on the percentage of components.
2. Appearance: color, size, density, excess liquid are also important indicators of quality.
3. Barcodes, labeling must comply with technological requirements.
4. Unnatural size, shape, unusual smell raise doubts about the naturalness of the food product.
5. A GOST mark, a well-known manufacturer is positive information.

Careful selection of a grocery product, avoidance of dubious outlets, reference to the manufacturer, the correct price-quality ratio can help in purchasing a quality product, but do not guarantee the identification of a fake.

If you have an unpleasant experience of purchasing counterfeits described in the rating, or another fake product, tell us about it in the comments.