How to distinguish real and fake honey, how to easily distinguish real and fake honey

If you put honey on a paper towel, if the honey does not seep easily, it means that it is real honey, but if the honey penetrates quickly, it means that it is inferior honey. On the surface, this is indeed the case, but if you think about it, you can see where the flaws are. Because the concentrated honey droplets are not easy to seep on the paper towel, it can be found that this method only identifies the amount of water content.

At present, if you want to accurately distinguish the authenticity of honey, there is only one way, that is, relying on science and technology, using precision instruments to analyze the components in honey, so that it is clear at a glance that it is ripe and bad.

1. Taste - including smell and taste, it is really a natural floral fragrance, and the fake is a chemical flavor. (Try to find a bottle of real honey to eat, eat it a few more times, remember the taste, and feel it as soon as you eat fake honey in the future.) Even if it is nectar from different flowers, the taste of natural floral fragrance is very different from the taste of chemical essence.

2. Silk - use chopsticks to stick honey to see, after really pouring can pull out a very slender silk, the silk rebounds strongly after breaking, and the fake is easy to break the line, no rebound. The shade and temperature have an effect on the hanging silk, but no matter how it is affected, the rebound is unique to real honey.

3. Burn - use a cotton swab or toilet paper strip to dip it in honey and burn it a little, it really emits white smoke, and the added one emits black smoke.

4. Ratio - that is, the specific gravity, the specific gravity of real honey is, obviously heavier than water, and the false is about and right, very light.

5. Water - water-soluble, it is really difficult to dissolve in water, and it needs to be stirred for a while to fully dissolve.

In addition, after buying home, you can take a small amount and put it in a bowl, and put it in the refrigerator storage room for half an hour, the real honey will crystallize, the crystalline particles are soft, and there is no graininess when rubbing by hand. There are also some types of real honey that do not crystallize.

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It is impossible to distinguish the authenticity of honey from the appearance alone, beekeepers and people who often eat real honey are distinguished by tasting, directly eating a spoonful of honey, and experiencing the aftertaste of honey in the throat, mellow and long, it is difficult to taste and distinguish the little white who just started to eat honey. In recent years, many netizens have sent honey to help taste it, and instead of doing this, it is better to do honey evaluation specifically for consumers, so that more people can distinguish what is low-temperature concentrated honey, what is blended honey, and what is good honey, which is what Miaozi decided to do in 2021.

How to tell real honey from fake.

Clause.

First, we can ** the color of honey. If it is pure honey, it looks unclear and translucent, and it is earthy yellow or pale yellow. Because natural honey has a large amount of pollen, propolis, royal jelly, minerals and proteins, and many other small particles, only the honey that has been blended in the later stage, that is, the fake honey that people call will look very beautiful and pure.

Clause. Second, we take out a few drops of honey and put them in the palm of our hands, and then rub them repeatedly with both hands. After about 15 seconds of rubbing, if it is real honey, you will smell a faint floral aroma. And if it is blended, then all that is left is the taste of syrup.

Clause. 3. The above two are the identification methods after buying, so how to distinguish before buying? We can gently shake the bottle of honey a few times before turning it upside down. If you find that the bubbles rise quickly, then the honey is not pure, and if the bubbles rise very slowly, then it is relatively pure.

Clause. Fourth, we can distinguish by the date of production. If the date is relatively new, we can see if there are crystals at the bottom of this bottle of honey. If there are crystals, then it means that the honey is better, if there are no crystals at the bottom, then there is a high probability that the honey has been blended.

Extended Materials. How did the fake honey come about.

The main production methods are syrup blending, sugar boiling and cracking sugar.

Syrup blending is a common method of making fake honey, vegetable syrup and caramel are the main raw materials, the appearance of the honey produced by mixing the two is not much different from the real honey, and some counterfeiters will also add a little real honey, so that the fake honey is closer to the real honey in all aspects, even experienced beekeepers are difficult to distinguish.

Cracking white sugar is to boil water and then add white sugar, white sugar is fully fused with water and then add sulfuric acid, and then stir and boil, sulfuric acid can crack the sucrose in white sugar into simple sugar, and finally add some flavor, fake honey is made.

Here are some common ways to identify real and fake honey:

Look at the color and transparency: Real honey is usually dark yellow or amber in color and has some transparency. If the color is too light or pale white, or if it is completely opaque, it may be adulterated or has other substances added to destroy the width.

Look at crystallization: real honey crystallizes after a certain amount of time, which is formed due to the crystallization of glucose in it. If the honey has been in a liquid state, it is possible that other substances have been added.

Look at the sweetness: Real honey is usually moderately sweet, if the sweetness is too high or too low, it may be adulterated or other sweeteners have been added.

Look at the bubbles: Real honey will produce fine bubbles when stirred, while adulterated honey will not have this phenomenon.

Perform a fire roasting experiment: A small spoonful of hungry honey is dropped on a piece of paper and gently roasted with a lighter, real honey will leave a caramel taste, while adulterated honey will have other impurities to produce an off-flavor.

It is recommended to choose regular honey brands, such as Ma Erge Qinling Soil Honey, Honey Xiaowutu Honey and Zhenfeng Baicao Soil Honey, etc., to ensure that you can buy authentic honey products.

There are three main types of methods for identifying real and fake honey:

One: smell single nectar has the unique floral fragrance of this plant, mixed honey has a natural floral flavor, fake honey has a sucrose flavor, and some are spices.

Two: Eyes 1Look at the concentration of honey, 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 honey balls after breaking, and the fake honey or honey with low concentration is the opposite.

2.A drop of honey can be taken and dropped on the newspaper, pure honey with high concentration is hemispherical and not easy to soak through the newspaper, and low concentration or fake honey is easy to soak through the newspaper.

3.Take a glass of water, add a little honey, the real honey will quickly sink to the bottom of the cup, it is not easy to melt, when stirring slowly with chopsticks, there will be a slight phenomenon, if it is fake honey, it will soon dissolve into the water.

4.Look at the crystallization, the crystallization of honey is related to the type and temperature of its plants, generally pure natural honey is easy to crystallize at 13-14 degrees Celsius, and the honey that can be fully crystallized generally has low water content, high concentration, and is not easy to deteriorate, so it is high-quality honey. Crystallized pure honey is twisted by hand, the feel is delicate, there is no round sand grain, fake honey, not easy to crystallize, or precipitate a part, the sediment is hard, not easy to crush.

Three: taste, pure natural honey, sweet taste, slightly sour, soft and delicate taste, refreshing and soft, slightly spicy in the throat, fragrant aftertaste for a long time, although the fake honey taste is sweet, but mixed with sugar or spice taste. The throat sensation is weak, and the aftertaste is light and short.

In short, to identify the authenticity of honey, there may be some errors in a single method, you can apply multiple methods to identify a honey at the same time, and under normal circumstances, you can determine the authenticity of honey.

Two catties and three taels of honey are between 24---39 yuan, because there are many kinds of honey, and they are different according to different varieties. Generally, the honey sold in regular supermarkets is real, because the ** introduced by different purchase channels will be relatively low. Honey cannot be washed with hot water, which can destroy many elements in it.

1. Smell and smell: the smell of honey. After opening, the fresh honey has a distinct floral aroma, and the aged honey has a lighter aroma. The smell of fake honey made with flavors is unpleasant. Monofloral nectar has the fragrance of its nectar source itself.

2. Taste: Taste the taste of honey. Pure honey not only has a pleasant aroma, but also has a strong aroma in the mouth.

Put the honey on the tongue, use the tongue against the upper jaw, the honey slowly enters the throat, it will feel slightly sweet and slightly sour, the taste is delicate, the throat is slightly spicy, and the aftertaste is long. After adulteration, the above sensation becomes lighter, and it has a sugar water taste, a strong sour or salty taste, etc.

3. Pick: Check the moisture content of honey. In China, it is customary to take immature honey, so the water content of honey is high.

Most of the best honey on the market is processed, concentrated, and has a relatively low water content. Honey is picked up by chopsticks or fingers, and honey can be drawn is preferred, and there is no drawing phenomenon, indicating that the water content is high. You can also drop a drop of honey on the straw paper, and the water trace is easy to spread, indicating that the water content is high.

Pure honey is beaded and does not spread.

4. Twisting: 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 the hand twist has a feeling of sand grains, which is not easy to twist, and the entrance has the feeling of eating sugar.

5. Dissolve: dissolve the honey in water, stir evenly, and let it stand, if there are impurities in the honey, it will float or sink. Honey is a natural product, and a small amount of impurities does not affect the quality of the honey itself.

6. Look: Look at the color of the honey. Pure honey is lusterly transparent, only a small amount of pollen residue is suspended in it, and there are no other excessive impurities The color of honey varies due to the nectar source and different plants, but the honey in the same bottle should be uniform in color.

7. Pour: Due to the low water content, high-quality honey is very viscous. If the sealed bottle is turned upside down, it is obviously "laborious" to float on the air sealed at the mouth of the bottle.

8. Mo: If you buy milky white or light yellow "crystal honey", as long as you pick it out and put it on the back of your hand and gently rub it for a while, those particles that are slightly finer than edible refined salt will dissolve. Such a method can also be used to "test" royal jelly.

Here's how to distinguish the real from the fake:Method 1: Pour the honey into a bowl, then add a small amount of liquor, and observe the color of the water after stirring.

Method 2: Prepare a paper towel, take a small amount of honey and drip on it, if the honey is drop-shaped and not easy to disperse, it is real honey;

Method 3: Take a small amount of honey in an empty bottle, then add 1 3 water, tighten the cap and shake vigorously, if the bottle shows a lot of foam and has not disappeared for a long time, it is real honey.

Pure honey is the nectar or secretion of plants collected by bees, and most of the ingredients can be absorbed by the human body, so to identify honey, you need to check the test report and then make a judgment.