A simple trick to teach you how to distinguish real and fake deer antlers

In life, anything we buy may be fake, so we should carefully select and identify it. For example, many people now want to buy some deer antlers to nourish their bodies, or to make wine or soup. But the price of deer antlers is very high, and if you buy fake ones, it will be a big loss. Today, I will teach you the simplest way to distinguish real deer antlers from fake ones.

Real Deer Antler

Real velvet antlers are light, hard and brittle, slightly fishy and salty. They usually have one or two branches, a reddish-brown, shiny skin, and densely covered with red-yellow or brown-yellow fine hairs. The skin and hairs are tightly attached and not easy to peel off. The best velvet antlers are thick, round, plump at the top, with fine and soft hairs, reddish-yellow color, reddish-brown skin, and oily and shiny. Velvet antler slices are round or oval, about 3 cm in diameter, and have a reddish-brown skin. The best velvet antlers are light, have a honeycomb-like cross section, and have dense tissue.

Fake antler

Fake antlers are made by wrapping animal fur with animal bone gelatin. Fake antler pieces are also similar to round, but the thickness is uneven, with a diameter of 1.5-3.5 cm, the outer skin is gray-brown, and the hair is short. The cut surface is brown-purple, without honeycomb-like pores, and occasionally has dots. The outer fur can be peeled off. In addition, fake antlers are heavy, tough, difficult to cut, have a light smell, can be dissolved in water, and the solution is turbid.

Tips for purchasing antlers

When purchasing velvet antlers, you need to pay attention to the difference between flower velvet antler blood flakes and red deer antler powder flakes and old antler flakes. Red deer antlers do not bleed during processing, so red deer antler powder flakes and old antler flakes are also reddish brown. However, it is not difficult to distinguish between the two. You need to pay attention to three points. First, pay attention to the texture of the velvet antler surface. The ones with fine texture and no small holes are blood flakes. Second, look at the color of the surrounding hairs. The green ones are red deer antlers, not flower velvet antler blood flakes.