Is it true? Just a plastic bottle makes it easy to distinguish real honey from fake

It is no longer realistic to directly identify the authenticity of honey, and the entire industry must be controlled from the source, and there is a process traceability mechanism to fundamentally solve the problem of fake honey. It is also a mature solution for developed countries to solve the problem of agricultural fraud. Here's why:

Technically speaking, counterfeiting technology is becoming more and more advanced, and our testing equipment and detection level cannot keep up with this counterfeiting speed. The honey industry is one of the few industries with pain points in the whole industry chain, and there are many problems in terms of honey source, honey source plants, bee species, collection standards, packaging process, logistics and sales. Later, I will talk in detail about the history of fraud in the entire honey industry, and how the corresponding identification methods have failed.

In terms of honey industry standard policy, our standards are very backward, and they are also drafted after being bound by the standards of some state-owned enterprises and large institutions. I will also elaborate on the honey standards of the European Union, Russia, the United States, New Zealand, etc., compared to how our standards have left the industry behind.

In terms of the cost of identifying the real and fake, this is a very uneconomical behavior, and the cost of testing is much higher than the cost of counterfeiting, which actually makes the detection face the embarrassing situation of "dying before the teacher is ready".

In terms of consumers' cognitive minds, our consumers have a lot of misconceptions about honey. Honey itself is a food with sufficient nutrients, and it does not have so many miraculous medicinal effects, and it is boasted by merchants; It's not like what Xiao Angry Qing said above who is deficient in scientific literacy, it's just a bunch of sugar, which has no effect, and even if it does, it can be ignored.

Identifying the authenticity of honey solves the problem of counterfeiting of agricultural products and the problems and pain points of the whole chain of the honey industry from the state: the source of honey, the source of honey, and the types of bee species!

Listening to the old people in the countryside, they can distinguish real and fake honey.

Personally, it feels unlikely, too magical to seem unreal.

Fake honey is made by boiling sucrose (white sugar or brown sugar) with alkaline water, and there is no honey in it, or there is very little honey in it. Its quality characteristics are that there is no natural honey floral smell, but there is a smell of boiling syrup, and there is no moist taste when tasting, and there is a taste of white sugar water.

Identification method. 1. Shake the honey bottle vigorously.

If there is a fine layer of foam on the upper layer, it can be judged to be pure natural and unprocessed honey; Concentrated immature honey generally does not shake out fine foam.

2. Natural honey will crystallize.

If the honey is stored at 5-13 degrees and does not crystallize for a long time, there may be problems with concentration and fructose.

Brew honey with cold water, pour about half a bottle of mineral water into a bottle of mineral water, and shake quickly. If it is real honey, there will be the following phenomena:

1. There is a large amount of foam on the upper layer of the liquid, and it will not subside for a long time, sometimes the foam can be maintained for 2 hours.

2. The liquid part appears cloudy because honey contains protein, pollen, and gum. Not only does the fake honey have less foam and fade easily, but the liquid part is also very clear.

3. After boiling hot water, the taste is sweet and sour, because pure honey contains many organic acids and enzymes, but fake honey only has a sweet taste.

9 Ways to Tell Fake Honey::

1. Good honey will crystallize when it is below 15 18 and turn into white or light yellow crystals.

2. The cheaper it is, the worse the quality.

3. The color of real honey does not look very bright, white, light yellow or amber, and light color is preferred; Fake honey is bright in color, generally light yellow or dark yellow. Look at the shape: real honey provokes visible flexible filaments that flow constantly.

Fake honey has suspended solids or precipitation, and when provoked, it falls in a drip-like manner, and there is a broken flow.

4. Real honey has a faint floral fragrance of plant flavor; Fake honey smells pungent or fruity sugar.

5. Real honey is sweet and delicious, with a slight sour taste, and the crystalline lump is crispy when bitten, and it melts when it is contained; Fake honey has a bitter or chemical taste, no aromatic taste, crystalline chunks chew like granulated sugar, and the sound is crisp and loud.

6. Put a spoonful of honey into the cup, add four to five times of hot water to dissolve, and let it stand for three to four hours if there is no precipitation, it is pure honey and good honey.

7. Take a chopstick and insert it into the honey, lift it vertically, the honey with high concentration flows down slowly, the viscosity can be drawn, and it can shrink into a honey ball after breaking, and the fake honey or honey with low concentration is the opposite, even if it can stretch the filament, the broken filament is not elastic and will not shrink into honey beads.

8. Observe and feel the crystallization situation. In summer, the temperature is high, and honey is not easy to crystallize; In winter, the temperature is low, and honey is easy to crystallize. Some honeys are easy to crystallize on their own, while others are not.

Some people have a misconception about honey crystallization and think that a crystallization is fake honey or adulterated, which is not true. The honey crystals are caviar or oily, delicate, white in color, hand-twisted without grit, and the crystals are easy to melt in the mouth. The crystals of sugar-mixed honey are granular, and there is a feeling of sand grains when twisted by hand, and there is a feeling of eating sugar in the mouth.

10. Take a drop of honey and drop it on the newspaper, the pure honey with high concentration is hemispherical and not easy to soak the newspaper, and the low concentration or fake honey is easy to soak the newspaper.

Pour half a bottle of water into the bottle of mineral water, then add the honey and shake if there is a lot of foam, that is, pure honey.

In fact, this method is not accurate, and the identification method still needs to check the test report, pure honey is a sweet substance that bees collect the nectar or secretions of plants, and store them in the nest spleen after being fully brewed.