How to differentiate GENUINE and FAKE Swallow Birds Nest?

Genuine Swallow Birds Nest

Genuine Swallow Birds Nest has a natural creamy colour with fibre-like strands. The traces of feathers or dirt specks in genuine Swallow Birds Nest cannot be 100% clean.

Genuine Swallow Birds Nest gives out a unique egg white or fishy smell on its own and after being cooked, every piece of genuine Swallow Birds Nest is different in its colour, shape and weight.

Genuine Swallow Birds Nest is very fragile and easy to break into fine pieces and is 99% dry. It takes about 15-30 minutes to soak them into water, and then it will expand four to seven times bigger than its normal size. You can find some tiny feathers or tiny black specks on the Swallow Birds Nest. Traces of feathers or impurity are one proof and guarantee of its authenticity.

Fake or Chemically Treated Swallow Birds Nest

Dear birds nest lovers, it is time to stop being cheated by rogue businessmen.

Swallow Birds Nest is a high value healthy food. Yet, some rogue businessmen started exploiting the Swallow Birds Nest trade by selling fake or chemically treated Swallow Birds Nest for fast money. The majority of Swallow Birds Nest lovers are unaware of how to differentiate between genuine and chemical treated Swallow Birds Nest.

How to differentiate GENUINE and FAKE Swallow Birds Nest?

Different Ways of Chemically Treated Swallow Birds Nest:

Strong bleaching agent - to get rid of tiny feathers and impurity or black specks. The Swallow Birds Nest look very white or clean. Every pieces looked the same. It has a chemical smell or sour smell or no smell of egg white or fishy smell.

Industrial colouring - dye the birds nest into red, orange, and yellow colour. Every pieces looked the same. Industrial colouring (dye) is very poisonous and can cause a cancer or death if consumed regularly.

Added with seaweeds (agar agar) - to make the birds nest heavier to cheat on its weight. It has a smell of seaweed or chemical.

Industrial glue - to glue the Swallow Birds Nest together and make it heavier. It has a smell of chemical or sour smell. The Swallow Birds Nest looked more solid and not so fragile.

The effective way to test the Swallow Birds Nest is to smell the dried Swallow Birds Nest, place a piece of wet birds nest into a plastic bag, and tie the bag tightly. Then, you either can open the plastic bag after 10 minutes or place a piece of wet Swallow Birds Nest into the fridge for one hour before smelling the content. If you can smell chemical or unpleasant smell, the Swallow Birds Nest is not pure.

Some rogue businessmen can even spray the Swallow Birds Nest with water to cheat you on the weight. You can tell blending the Swallow Birds Nest. If it can be blended, the Swallow Birds Nest contains 20 to 30% water. Chemical treated Swallow Birds Nest takes more then one hour or longer to expand when soaked in water. If a trader claimed that their Swallow Birds Nest is 100% clean, be careful.

Cave nest contains more impurities due to the minerals and metals that are present in the cave. It is impossible to manually clean them, therefore 99% of cave nest is being cleaned by a strong bleaching agent.

Blood nest is not being created by the swiftlet itself but by the mineral and metal content and the impurity of the wet surface in the cave. 99% of blood nest in the market is made by drying the white Swallow Birds Nest with industrial colouring or smoke the Swallow Birds Nest with swiftlet dropping for a few weeks.

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