Is winter honey real honey? Honey is not honey

Winter honey, originally mainly refers to the medium honey harvested in winter, which can be divided into winter honey in a broad sense and winter honey in a narrow sense.

Winter honey in a broad sense refers to the honey harvested in winter, due to the different sources of honey, the main flower species of winter honey are also different, but it is better to take the honey of flowers. The nectar harvested in winter is generally darker in color than in other seasons, contains more minerals, and has more nutrients.

Winter honey refers to the honey collected by bees in winter, and the time for bees to collect winter honey generally lasts from the end of November to the beginning of January of the following year, and the duration is only about 40 days. Hence the name "winter honey".

Due to the large latitude spanned by our country, there is a large difference in temperature between the north and the south in winter, so the only bees that can come out to collect honey in winter are in the south. However, the bees in the south also need to survive the winter due to the cold, and only about a quarter of the bees come out to pick nectar in the spring. Therefore, winter honey is rare, and among the four seasons of honey in spring, summer, autumn and winter, winter honey is the most precious.

The production areas of winter honey in China are generally Taiwan, Fujian, Yunnan, Guangdong, Hainan and other southern provinces and cities.

However, the nutritional value of winter honey is not as high as that of linden honey!

<> it is reported that there are 80% fake honey on the market, I often bought fake honey when I first ate honey, and then I went to test every honey I ate, and now I eat Zhongbao linden honey, all the data are higher than the standard of first-class honey.

Be. Honey is a sweet substance that bees collect the nectar or secretions of plants, and store them in the nest spleen after full brewing. Most of the bee reed honey tastes sweet and delicious, and it is very delicious to drink when flushed.

The smell of honey is fragrant and rich, the taste is innocent and sweet, the color of real honey is transparent or translucent, the smell is pure and natural, and there is a faint floral fragrance of plant flavor.

When bees make honey, the ** of the "processing raw materials" it collects is mainly nectar from the nectar source, but when the nectar source is missing, the bees will also collect nectar or honeydew, so we divide honey into natural honey and nectar honey.

Natural honey is made by bees collecting nectar. They are ** in the flower nectar glands or in the outer nectar glands of plants, usually what we call honey is natural honey, and because of different nectar source plants, it is divided into a variety of single nectar with a certain plant flowering period as the main body, such as orange nectar, linden honey, lychee honey, black locust honey.

Pure honey is the nectar or secretion of bee collection plants, which is fully brewed, and the color varies from water white to dark amber due to different nectar source plants, containing more than 180 kinds of substances, which can make the body in a better state.

Pure honey is the nectar or secretion of plants collected by bees, which is fully brewed and contains more than 180 kinds of substances, and has many benefits for the body after consumption, so it is necessary to check the ingredient identification.

Usually the viscosity of fake honey is not as good as the real one, and the permeability is not as good as the real honey, these are known by comparison, if possible, taste it (real honey has a floral fragrance), twist it by hand (real honey is more cowardly) and it will be more visible. How to identify honey quality1To the naked eye, light white texture is good.

2.Take a clean glass, put a small amount of honey, add 5 times the warm boiling water and stir thoroughly, no sediment is preferable 3If 90% alcohol is dropped, there is no white flocculent precipitate, and there is no starch sugar.

4.The water content should be around 17-18%. Drip the honey on the absorbent paper, if it gradually seeps, it means that it is mixed with sugar water; In cold weather, it is normal for honey to have white precipitate that is glucose crystallization.

Identification of royal jelly: the liquid level is flat and there are no bubbles; The smell is slightly fragrant, and the tongue has a sour and astringent taste when entering the mouth, with a slight spicy feeling; Insert the glass rod into the inside and stir it to show a uniform quality, stagnation but not sticking, and flow but not smooth.

5 ways to distinguish real honey from fake:

1. Smell the taste, real earth honey or real honey, it is absolutely floral, even if it is very light, there is absolutely no sour, industrial smell, fishy smell, etc.; If you can't tell what kind of floral scent you have, you can use the contrast method to smell two bottles of different honey, one bottle of real honey, one bottle of processed honey or one bottle of fake honey, and the comparison can have a noticeable effect.

2. Look at the bubbles, if the honey is not processed, shake vigorously, there are bubbles, there are bubbles between the upper layer and the honey, which are relatively uniform and will last for a long time, that is because of the active enzyme; After processing, there will be only a small number of bubbles in the upper layer or no bubbles, and it is best to have uniform bubbles in the honey and float up.

3. Look at the color, real honey will not be so pure, and it will not be so translucent when it looks like. Fake honey is bright in color and very transparent, generally light yellow or dark yellow.

4. Look at the viscosity, this must be paid attention to, don't believe in what thicker honey can be drawn honey is good honey, no, not so, honey is Baumé, some merchants in order to deliberately improve the Baumé degree, intentional processing dehydration and concentration, less moisture, natural concentration will go up, drawing is very simple, real honey is semi-viscous, especially in summer, and a little thin, this 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 more sensitive part of the human body, and it can be verified with the tongue when distinguishing between real and fake honey. Real honey has a strong honey taste, and it is relatively pure, the sugar composition is also relatively moderate, not too sweet, and it has a slightly sour taste and a slight prickly feeling in the aftertaste. Fake honey has more sugar, the honey taste is lighter, and it is sweet but not honey in the mouth.

Winter honey is a semi-solid form that resembles a precipitate at room temperature. The color is white; That is, it is like lard boiled in winter. Ordinary pure honey, on the other hand, is a thick, liquid yellow color.

Winter honey is better than regular pure honey.