A cup of honey water every day is a beauty and beauty care method that many women like very much, but now there are eight ways to fake it on the market, so it's difficult to identify the authenticity of honey by one way only. Today, sihai.com compiles some ways to identify the authenticity of honey for you. Remember to collect them! More life tricks are all on sihai.com Life Encyclopedia channel.
1. If you want to know the truth of honey, you should first know what kind of honey you have. The honey of different flowers has different color, fragrance, taste and origin. Generally, the honey of any plant will have the flower fragrance of this plant, which is naturally not pungent. The difficulty of pure honey crystallization is not the same. For example, Jingtiao honey, basswood honey, rape honey are all easily crystallized honey, which can be crystallized in a whole bottle. The honey of sophora flower and Jujube Flower can only be partially crystallized. Secondly, pure honey will have a slight spicy throat if eaten dry, which is the characteristic of all bee products.
2. Honey mixed with flour, starch or corn flour is turbid in color and not sweet enough. Put a small amount of honey into the cup, add some water to boil, drop a few drops of yellow wine to shake up after cooling, if the solution turns blue or red or purple, it means that the honey is mixed with starch.
3. Insert the red wire into the honey. If it's a good honey, you can see the smoke coming out after inserting the wire, but what you smell is the fragrance of fruits and flowers. If it's mixed with white sugar, it will smell burnt.
4. Take one part of honey, add two parts of cold boiled water and four parts of 95% alcohol, mix well and put it for one day and night. If there is no impurity precipitation, it means the quality is pure. The precipitate is precipitated white sugar.
5. If you pick up honey with chopsticks, you can pull up the silk, and the silk will automatically shrink back into a ball, which is the best product (mainly to see whether it will rebound after four breaks, false honey can also draw silk, but the silk of pure honey is generally thin and rebound). The drawing method only uses liquid honey. If the honey is crystallized, or the honey is semi crystallized, this method is not suitable, thinking that the crystallized honey is solid It can't be drawn. Semi crystalline and semi liquid honey can't be drawn without viscosity.
6. After the real honey is shaken in summer, there will be a large number of bubbles in the honey, which makes it easy for the honey to rise out of the honey bottle. But after 1-2 days, the bubbles will disappear automatically, but when the honey bottle is opened, there will be gas rushing out! This is mainly due to the fact that the pure natural honey contains the bactericide hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide is easy to decompose oxygen under high temperature! Thus, there is a layer of white bubble on the surface of honey! There are many active enzymes used in honey. If the temperature is high, the active enzymes will decompose and produce some gases.
Winter is also very simple. Put honey in 30-40 ℃ hot water for 4-5 minutes, then stir it with chopsticks for 10-20 times, and then put it still for a while. There will be bubbles on the surface of pure natural honey.
How to distinguish fake honey:
I. look hard
Look at the color: the color of real honey is transparent or translucent. True honey contains some protein, biological enzyme, minerals and pollen, so it doesn't look very bright, white, light yellow or amber, light light light color is better. As the fake honey is boiled with white sugar or pretended to be syrup, its color is bright, generally light yellow or dark yellow; look at the shape: the real honey is viscous liquid, which can be seen as flexible filament and flows continuously. The false honey has suspension or sedimentation, with small viscosity. When it is picked up, it falls in a drop shape and has broken flow. After exposure, the true honey becomes thinner, while the false honey has no change or is thicker. If honey is very thin and easy to flow, it may be mixed with water; look at the label: some honey products have ingredients such as sucrose, white sugar and fructose syrup in the ingredients list, while pure honey products are not allowed to add these substances.
II. Smell carefully
The real honey smells pure and natural, with a light floral flavor, while the fake honey smells pungent or fruity.
3. Tasting
Real honey is sweet and delicious. It has a sticky, slightly light sour taste and a long aftertaste. When you taste the crystal block, your teeth will be crispy and your taste will be melted. The fake honey has bitter taste or strange smell of chemicals, no fragrance, and the crystal block chews like sugar with crisp and loud sound.