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How to identify true and false honey

Sihainet: the efficacy and nutrition of honey need not be described. Many people know that with the attention paid to health care, people's demand for honey is also growing. However, there are always some black hearted merchants in the market, driven by the interests, who are inferior or even mixed. How can we identify the authenticity of honey on the market? Let's see the detailed identification Daquan below!

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 sour, industrial, 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 for a long time. 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 will not be so pure, and it will not be so transparent. And the false honey is bright in color, very transparent, generally light yellow or dark yellow

4. In terms of viscosity, we must pay attention to this point. Don't believe that the thicker Honey + the honey that can be brushed is good honey. No, it's not like this. Honey has Baume degree. In order to improve Baume degree intentionally, some businesses intentionally process, dehydrate and condense the honey. When the water content 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 the taste. The tongue is a sensitive part of the human body. You can use the tongue to verify the authenticity of honey. 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 of honey, add 5 times of water to dilute and mix for 24 hours, and let it stand for 24 hours. There are suspended solids or precipitates, indicating that there are impurities. The more the 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: when honey drops on white paper, pure honey is bead like and will not seep, while honey mixed with water will gradually seep, the faster the seep, the more water it will be mixed.

8. Sugar identification: honey mixed with sugar has poor transparency, is not clear, is turbid, and has poor flower 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 real honey is generally soft in the crystal, which can be easily twisted on the fingers and has 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 the honey. If there is something sticky on the wire, it means there is impurity in the 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, etc. written in the ingredient list, which is also 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.

Is the honey they sell true for beekeepers on the roadside?

In fact, it's easy to recognize! As a beekeeper, there must be bees first. Don't be confused by a tent with rows or rows of beehives! Some beekeepers are selling "honey" in a tent and some beehives are selling it. After careful observation, only a few honeybees can be found in the beehive. If you want to open a beehive to see his bees, he will warn you that the bee stings and prevents you from seeing. If you ask him why there are so few bees, he will tell you to go out to collect honey. In this way, it's self deception!! a real beekeeper, you see a totally different scene. It's a busy place with bees in groups. You can hear the hum of bees from a long distance. It's unnecessary for the owner to say that you will be afraid of the bee stinging. You can smell the flower honey when you come near the bee farm. And you can see that the host is busy in the bee field from morning to night. Those with beehives and no bees are waiting for someone to buy their honey. I believe you can recognize real and fake beekeepers at a glance.