2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency warns that there is fake vinegar on the market, which can turn your pickle into a vegetable soup. Its price is lower than that of real vinegar.
Vinegar is sold between 59 and 69 stotinki, but is produced with synthetic acetic acid.
According to the definition adopted in the Wine Act, the vinegar sold must be a product obtained by acetic acid fermentation of wine, fruit and ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin.
The total acid content must not be less than 60 grams per liter. And depending on the raw materials, vinegar can be wine, fruit, alcohol, balsamic.
Synthetic acetic acid, which is prepared from water and additives such as flavorings, cannot be called vinegar. There are no restrictions on the sale of such a product, but it is mandatory for traders to label it as an acidic product or an acid spice.
An inspection of the Monitor newspaper shows that most customers are attracted by counterfeit vinegar on the market because of its low price. A bottle of 700 grams of counterfeit is between 59 and 69 stotinki, while the same weight of the original exceeds 2 levs.
Engineer Atanas Drobenov, who is an expert from the Food Control Directorate at the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, explains that the formula for acid and vinegar is the same. The only difference is the way it was obtained.
There is no danger of seasoning your food with this acid, but you should not cook winter vegetables with it, such as pickles, because it becomes dangerous when used in large quantities.
By law, the production of natural vinegar is controlled by the Executive Agency for Vine and Wine. The food agency has to monitor what happens to the sour products in the stores.
The BFSA states that they are preparing inspections and expecting signals from the scalded consumers.
Last year, a little over 120 tonnes of counterfeit vinegar, which was sold as wine, were seized on customer signals. It was immediately withdrawn from the market.
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