Honey has a very good health care effect. Many people like to make a cup of light honey water in the morning, which has the purpose of detoxifying, beautifying and eliminating toxins in the body. Therefore, honey is a good health food. But there are some black hearted traders in the market who fake it and cheat consumers. Do you know how to identify the true and false honey?
Common methods to distinguish true and false honey:
1. Smell the taste, real local honey or real honey, it has absolutely flower flavor, even if it is very light, it has absolutely no acid flavor, industrial flavor, fishy smell, etc.; if you can't distinguish what kind of flower flavor, you can use the comparison method, smell two bottles of different honey, one bottle of real honey, one bottle of processed honey or fake honey, one comparison can have very obvious effect.
2. Look at the bubbles. If honey is not processed and shakes vigorously, there are bubbles. There are bubbles between the upper layer and honey, which are relatively uniform and will last forever. That's because of the active enzyme. After processing, there will only be a small number of bubbles or no bubbles in the upper layer, and even bubbles in honey will float upward.
3. Look at the color, the real honey is not so pure, how can it not be so transparent. But the false honey color is bright, very transparent, generally presents the light yellow or the deep yellow.
4. Looking at viscosity, we must pay attention to this point. Don't believe that the thicker Honey + the honey that can be brushed is a good honey. No, it's not like this. Honey has Baume degree. Some businesses intentionally process, dehydrate and concentrate in order to improve Baume degree. When the water is less, the natural concentration will go up. Drawing is very simple. The real honey is semi viscous, especially in summer Season, there is a little thin, which is normal, generally this kind of raw honey needs to be put in the refrigerator in summer.
5. Taste taste, the tongue is a more sensitive part of the human body, identify the true and false honey can be verified with the tongue. True honey has a strong and pure honey taste, and its sugar content is moderate, not too sweet. It has a slight sour taste and a slight tingling sensation in the aftertaste. But the fake honey has more sugar, and the honey taste is light. It tastes sweet in the mouth without honey.
6. Identification of impurities: take 5ml honey, add 5 times of water to dilute and stir it evenly and leave it for 24 hours. There are suspended solids or precipitates, indicating that there are impurities. The more precipitates, the greater the doping amount. Pure honey has no precipitates. In addition, put a spoonful of honey into a cup, add four to five times of hot water to make it dissolve, and if there is no precipitation after three to four hours, it will be pure honey.
7. Water content identification: Honey Drops on white paper, pure honey is bead shaped, and will not seep, while honey mixed with water will gradually seep, the faster the speed of seeping, the more water is mixed.
8. Sugar identification: honey mixed with sugar has poor transparency, unclear, turbid appearance, and poor floral flavor. The color of honey mixed with brown sugar is darker than that of honey mixed with white sugar. Can use two fingers to rub, to feel sticky is good, there is a granular sense of sugar.
9. Crystal identification: the true honey crystal is generally soft in the true honey, which can be easily twisted on the fingers, with a delicate feeling. The white sugar precipitated from the fake honey is relatively dense and feels like gravel when it is twisted on the fingers.
10. Identification of iron wire: insert the burnt iron wire into honey. If there is something sticky on the wire, it means there is impurity in honey. If the wire is still smooth, it means there is no impurity.
11. Look at the label when buying honey: check the label of the product carefully. Some honey products have sucrose, white sugar, fructose syrup, high fructose syrup written on the ingredients list, which is not allowed for real honey products. On the label of honey, only the honey of flowers or pure honey can be written. It can't be fake honey that steals concepts like honey paste and honey drink.