How to choose honey

A look at the color: the color of honey depends on the amount of plant pigments and colored minerals contained in the honey, and the normal color can be divided into 7 grades: water white, extra white, white, extra light amber, light amber, amber and dark amber. The color of honey of different flower species is different, therefore, it is not right to have two colors of the same honey, such as linden honey is light amber, and the color is red, indicating that the honey is treated at high temperature.

Real honey is highly light transmitted, uniform in color, while low-quality honey is cloudy and has impurities.

Second view form: When buying honey, you can turn the bottled honey over, and the pure honey will appear in a brushed state. When you get home, you can try to pick the honey with chopsticks, pure honey can be picked up and stretched into a long silk, and the silk can be retracted after breaking, or even beaded.

Adulterated honey can't be picked up, or it can't be picked up into silk. Of course, sometimes honey crystallization will be found, which is related to temperature, storage temperature under 5 13 conditions, it will soon crystallize, and fake and inferior honey is not easy to be affected by temperature. The crystallization of pure honey is soft and easy to melt when twisted by hand, without a gritty feeling, otherwise it may be adulterated honey.

Three smells: impure honey will smell like fruit candy or artificial flavors, honey mixed with spices has an abnormal fragrance, and pure honey has a natural smell and a faint floral fragrance.

Four tastes: pure honey has a mellow taste, aromatic and sweet, a long aftertaste after the entrance, and is easy to crystallize; Impure honey has a single sweet taste, no aromatic taste, white sugar water taste, crystals melt in the mouth, astringency, slightly viscous, poured into water to dissolve quickly.

Fifth, look at the label: all ingredients other than honey written in the ingredient list are not pure honey, even if there is no ingredient list, the trade name has a function or orientation, it cannot be pure honey.

Sixth, look at the concentration: grasp the bag of honey, the feel is high concentration of honey; Shake to see the flow rate, the slow flow proves that the concentration is high. Put a drop of honey on paper, high-quality honey is bead-shaped, not easy to disperse; Inferior honey is not bead-shaped and tends to spread out.

The one with crystals is good, and then it tastes like it, it is too sweet and impure, and there is white sugar in it.

There are real and false honey, many people will not choose, today I will teach you how to choose.

First of all, we should pay attention to the quality of honey itself, honey is the nectar or secretion of bee collection plants, after full brewing, only pure bee key honey has a variety of benefits for health, it is recommended that you give priority to honey that has been tested by many parties.

Many people are also struggling with the types of honey. In fact, under the premise of mature honey, honey is rich in a variety of nutrients, which has a nourishing effect on the body, but each kind of honey is not the same as that used as a quiet ant, and you can choose according to your own needs and preferences.

Look at the color: *** honey, delicate texture, bright color; Poor quality honey is often cloudy and has a poor gloss. There are grades of honey, the color of first-class honey is white, light amber and water white, the color of second-class honey is yellow and amber, the color of third-class honey is yellow and dark amber, and the color of fourth-class honey is dark amber and dark brown.

Look at the viscosity: shake the honey in the bottle, when shaking, the honey will not have too much shaking, after the shaking stops, the honey hanging on the bottle wall will flow down the bottle wall, this is because good honey is more viscous.

Smell: The smell of honey is relatively natural, with a faint floral fragrance; Average quality honey will smell like fruit candy or artificial flavors, and honey mixed with spices will have an unusual aroma.

Taste: *** honey has a mellow taste, aromatic and sweet, a long aftertaste after the entrance, and is easy to crystallize; Honey of average quality has a single sweet taste, no aromatic taste, white sugar water taste, crystals melt in the mouth, astringency, slightly viscous, and melt quickly when poured into water.

Test the water content of honey: drop a drop of honey on a paper towel, if the honey spreads quickly, it means that the water content of the honey is relatively high, then the quality of the honey is also very average; If the honey is not easy to diffuse and is still droplet-shaped, it means that the water content of the honey is relatively low and the quality of the honey is relatively good.

A bottle of safe and qualified honey needs to go through more than a dozen processes to complete, and the problem of antibiotics in honey is often the easiest to ignore when buying.

Three groups of people should not drink honey.

People often like to buy honey to eat, but if it is not drunk properly, it can also cause diseases.

Drinking honey and soy milk can cause diarrhea A Miss Zhang felt a little angry because she often worked overtime, so she bought a bottle of honey to make tea and drink, but last week, she had diarrhea. After examination by the doctor, it was believed that the diarrhea was caused by improper consumption of honey. Because in addition to drinking honey, she often drinks soy milk, but honey is not suitable for soy products, otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea.

Three types of people should not drink honey First, infants under the age of 1. Since infants and young children are prone to constipation, some parents will mix honey with milk powder to drink, which is inappropriate. Because dust and soil often contain Clostridium botulinum, bees may bring contaminated pollen and toxins back to the hive during the process of collecting pollen to make honey, and trace amounts of toxins can poison babies with weakened immunity.

In addition, the complex ingredients contained in honey can also cause allergies or other adverse reactions in children; The second is diabetics. Because honey contains a lot of simple sugars, it can easily enter the bloodstream and aggravate the condition; The third is people who have a cold stomach and are prone to diarrhea.

In addition, honey should not be paired with the following types of foods, otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea: First, soy products. Honey is an acidic food, which is easy to react with a variety of minerals, vegetable proteins, organic acids, etc. in soy products to produce undesirable substances.

The second is leeks. Leeks are rich in vitamin C, which is easily oxidized by the minerals copper and iron in honey and loses its effect. The third is cold food, such as watermelon, loofah, etc.

Eat something if you like, and don't believe in its health preservation.

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