How to spot the most common fake foods

Seafood

If you order halibut at a restaurant, will you know if that white block of seasoned fish really is halibut? Or could it be much less expensive cod? To the untrained eye, it’s hard to know. That may be precisely why so many restaurants and grocery stores have mislabeled food or used false fish identifications.A 2013 study from Oceana found that 38 percent of all restaurant fish samples they tested were mislabeled. The wrong fish was being served. In sushi restaurants, it’s worse. Almost three-quarters of fish samples from sushi restaurants were imposters. Grocery stores fared a bit better: just 18 percent of fish in the retail space was incorrectly labeled.