What is the difference between mature honey and concentrated honey and processed honey? Two strands

The biggest difference between mature honey, concentrated honey, raw honey, and pure honey is the honey active enzyme. The active enzymes in unprocessed pure soil honey or Italian honey are preserved, and this honey is also called "raw honey", so natural raw honey can play the role and efficacy of honey!

Two bottles of fresh honey with a close production date and the same Baumé level can be distinguished by measuring their amylase values. If it is higher than 8, it is mature honey, and if it is lower than 8, it is raw honey.

Second, check whether the honey will crystallize.

General honey, when the temperature is lower than 12-14, if it is left for a period of time, there will be honey crystallization precipitation, and high concentration of raw honey, due to high temperature, heating, water extraction, its crystal core is destroyed, so in general, raw honey will not crystallize.

Third, you can taste the taste.

Because of the abundant content of active substances in mature honey, the difference in taste of most of the other mature honey is relatively obvious except for some special types of honey except for potpourri honey and earth honey. But raw honey is different because it has been processed at high temperatures, and its aromatic substances are broken down, so in general, the taste of raw honey does not change much.

Fourth, observe whether there are bubbles in the honey.

Generally speaking, mature honey usually has more active substances because of its situation, when the weather temperature is high, there will be a bottle expansion phenomenon, and there will be foam at the mouth of the bottle, while raw honey does not have this phenomenon.

Honey is a sweet substance made by bees collecting plant secretions or nectar, and it takes about 7-15 days for bees to brew thin nectar into mature capped honey. Ripe honey has a high Baumé content, a water content of less than 18 percent, and is rich in nutrients. Honey is not waiting for the honey to ripen naturally, the water content is more than 20%, relatively thin, the Baumé degree is very low, such honey is not only very nutritious, but also easy to ferment and deteriorate.

Naturally ripened honey is rich in glucose, fructose, vitamins, amino acids, minerals and other nutrients, which can supplement nutrients for the human body and balance the deficiencies in the daily diet. Moreover, the enzyme value of natural mature honey is relatively high, and it contains rich active substances, which can promote metabolism and have many benefits to the human body. However, water honey contains very few active substances and has almost no effect on the human body.

Due to the low Baumé degree of these honey, relatively thin, and unable to meet the national standard, some businesses use these honey to use high-temperature concentration equipment to evaporate excess water and form concentrated honey. But the nutrients contained in such honey are almost destroyed, and there is almost no tonic effect on people.

Of course, in terms of natural ripe honey, due to the cost price restrictions, it is generally not very low. And those immature honey, the cost price is relatively low, and it will be much cheaper on **. Therefore, the possibility of adulteration of honey that is too cheap is relatively large, and it is best not to buy bee products that are much lower than similar ** when buying.

Collecting nectar is very hard, and it is not easy to make nectar. And bees brew honey for themselves to eat, so how is honey brewed? Let's take you to understand it by Sinong original honey.

After collecting honey and returning to the nest, the collection bee will spit out the honey to the internal bees or disperse it into several nests, and then the internal bees will continue to process it.

During the processing, the bees will first suck the honey into their stomach and mix it with invertase, then spit it out, and then suck it in, so that they take turns to swallow and spit out more than 100 times. In this process, on the one hand, more invertase is added to the honey to speed up the conversion of sucrose; On the other hand, its evaporation surface expands, which accelerates the evaporation of water.

In addition, some bees strengthen the fan to remove moisture from the nest, so that the honey juice is concentrated quickly.

In this way, bees constantly use their wings to fan the wind to evaporate, so that the water drops to less than 20%, and the enzymes secreted by the bees decompose the sucrose in the nectar into glucose and fructose, and only in this way can it become the mature honey in our eyes.

Honey that is taken out in advance without being fully brewed by bees is called water honey. It's not that water is added or honey.

The nutrients of water honey are seriously lacking and extremely unstable, and the water content is high, so some merchants use high temperature to evaporate water in order to evaporate water. The honey that is already nutritious is evaporated at high temperature, and its nutrient cup is destroyed.

Concentrated honey is heated and concentrated, heated above 60°, which means that the most important active enzyme in honey, the nutrients of honey, are almost destroyed.

But concentrated honey looks very thick and beautiful, but its main nutrients are only glucose and fructose, and the active enzymes that the body needs so much have disappeared without a trace.

The effect and efficacy of natural ripening honey are very good, so why do merchants destroy its nutrition so much?

This is because whether it is honey or concentrated honey, it can bring certain benefits to the merchant, so the merchant is also very willing to collect these honey.

Naturally ripe honey is generally taken once in more than seven days, while unripe honey can be taken two or three times a week, but this is also because some beekeepers have no way to make a living, and the life of beekeepers has always been very hard! This has led to a cycle that has led to the deformed development of the honey market.

And because some buyers like to be cheap, there is a market for honey and concentrated honey.

Secondly, because naturally ripe honey may cause different tastes, bubbles and crystallization problems due to the flowering period and origin, resulting in the "self-made smartness" of some buyers, resulting in consumers being suspicious, giving up buying and complaining, resulting in a disaster for honey manufacturers. Therefore, some manufacturers make honey and concentrated honey to make the honey look very uniform and ensure the realization of large-scale industrialization, so that those buyers will not be suspicious and happily buy honey to take care of their bodies.

Mature honey refers to natural honey, and it takes about 5-10 days before and after bees collect nectar to make natural honey, and the process mainly goes through two changes. (1) Chemical changes in sugar: bees spit out the enzymes in their saliva and mix them with the nectar to produce a hydrolysis reaction that turns the disaccharides of the nectar into monosaccharides, that is, the sucrose in the nectar is hydrolyzed into glucose and fructose.

2) Physical change: It is through the action of evaporation, so that the average content of water is reduced from 60% to 65% to 17% 25%.

The nectar secreted by the nectar glands of the plant flowers collected by the bees is inhaled into the honey sac and processed under the action of the bee body secreting invertase (mainly part of the sucrose structure in the nectar is broken down into glucose and fructose). After returning to the nest, the honey will be spit out to the internal bee or dispersed into several nests, and the internal bee will continue to repeat the throughput processing, during which the internal bee will secrete a variety of invertase enzymes mixed into the nectar, so that the sucrose in the honey can be converted into glucose and fructose as much as possible, and some bees in the box will strengthen the fan, evaporate water, promote the rapid concentration of honey, and finally store the honey in the nest, through the continuous secretion of invertase and fan work (the injection of these various enzymes can promote human digestion and absorption, It is the embodiment of the nutritional value of honey), when the honey is mature and stored in the nest, the bee then seals the honey room with wax to isolate the air to prevent the honey from deteriorating, which completes the whole process from nectar to natural mature honey. When beekeepers collect mature honey, they first use a quick knife to cut off the beeswax on the honey room, shake out the mature honey, and then collect the canned honey by the manufacturer to form a commodity, which is the entire processing and production process of natural honey.

<> "I. Definition of Honey.

Honey is made by bees collecting plant nectar and brewing it repeatedly, by definition, it must meet two conditions at the same time, one is that the raw material for making honey must be the nectar collected by bees from plant flowers, and the other is that it must be completely brewed by bees and matured and has been covered.

Second, the production process.

Concentrated honey refers to the honey artificially concentrated with immature honey, it takes at least 7 days for bees to fully brew and mature the nectar, if the bees will fully brew and mature the honey will inevitably miss the flowering period, many beekeepers will shake a large number of immature honey with high wild water consumption in order to ensure honey production, and then use concentrator equipment to evaporate water and sell it to the market.

3. True and false arguments.

Concentrated honey is actually a special kind of fake honey, from the composition of concentrated honey and real honey is the same as sugar, but the content of sucrose in concentrated honey is particularly high, and the highest content in real honey is glucose and fructose and other monosaccharides, in addition to concentrated honey in the process of high temperature concentration enzymes and other active substances have been permanently inactive, drinking concentrated honey and simply drinking white sugar water is almost indifferent.

Fourth, the market**.

The concentration of honey is very cheap, honey merchants from beekeepers to buy honey from beekeepers when only a few yuan a catty, with concentration equipment to process into concentrated honey is only twenty or thirty yuan or even more than ten yuan a catty, which is completely incomparable with natural ripe honey, for example, the natural mature honey brewed by Italian bees is generally more than 60 yuan a catty, and the natural mature honey brewed by bees is basically more than 100 yuan.

5. Precautions Luqing.

1. Concentrated honey is artificially concentrated with immature honey with ultra-high water content, and strictly speaking, concentrated honey cannot be regarded as honey at all.

2. The nutritional value of concentrated honey is completely different from that of naturally ripened honey, and there is almost no difference between drinking concentrated honey and simply drinking white sugar water.

3. The ** of concentrated honey is very cheap, generally twenty or thirty yuan or even more than ten yuan a catty, and the natural ripe honey is basically more than 60 yuan.