Toad oil authenticity

Because of its high edible and medicinal value, Linfrog oil enjoys high reputation in domestic and foreign markets, and the demand for it is on the rise year by year. However, due to the scarcity of supply and high price, some unscrupulous traders use the dried products of toad's oviducts to counterfeit the oil to make huge profits, which brings losses to the consumers. Now, the authenticity of Linfrog oil is as follows:

Toad oil is made from the oviducts of female garden clams of frogs, which are harvested and dried. It is used for physical weakness, post-disease disorders, mental deficiency, palpitations and insomnia, night sweating, consumption and coughing.

Properties: irregularly flaky, curved and overlapping, 1.5 to 2 centimeters long, 1.5 to 5 centimeters thick. The surface is yellowish-white, waxy, slightly transparent, with fat-like luster, occasionally with grayish-white thin film-like dry skin. Feeling slippery, soaked in warm water, the volume can be expanded 25 ~ 40 times. Fishy, slightly sweet taste, chewing with a sticky and slippery feeling.

Fake: big toad oviducts, shaped like chicken intestines or coiled into strings, wider and thicker, yellowish or yellowish-brown, non-transparent, no luster, feel no greasy feeling, soaked in warm water, the weight of the volume of the expansion of a smaller, about 3 to 5 times.

Fake: Mentha argentata nest, irregular block-shaped linkage, size varies, slightly longer than the real thing, yellowish-white color, fat-like luster, some edges with a green dry skin, slippery feeling when touched, but after soaking in warm water, the volume of the expansion of smaller, only 0.5 to 1 times the original volume

The main point of identification of genuine and fake Linnian Frog Oil is that the water immersed in the expansion of the volume of the size of the difference, the authentic The expansion rate of the genuine product is larger than that of the fake product, in addition to combining the different morphological characteristics of the two to distinguish between them, and I hope that consumers will pay more attention to when they are buying and selling.

Linfrog oil grade

① and so on: the oil is large and neat, golden yellow, slightly white, no impurities

② and so on: the oil is medium-sized, yellowish-white, 1% impurities, no debris

③ and so on: the oil is not equal in size, the oil color is not pure, no deterioration of the oil, impurities, 5%, no debris

The standard water content of the oil is 6%