How honey is good or bad, and how to distinguish good from bad honey

You can use a combination of various aspects to distinguish between them. First of all, the color and taste, the color of honey is from water white to dark amber, but the honey source plants are different, the color is different, the taste of pure honey usually has the fragrance of the honey source plant, with a certain sense of layering, sweet but not greasy, and the taste of fake honey is mostly relatively single, there may be syrup or sugar taste.

However, these are not enough to accurately distinguish whether honey is pure or not, the most important point is through scientific testing, because the color and taste cannot understand the composition of honey, and the most important difference between pure honey and fake honey is the composition.

Rebound. We can put the honey in a spoon and pour it into the bottle, and when we stop, you will notice that the honey has a rebound phenomenon. Such honey is better.

Flow velocity. From the speed at which honey is poured, we can also tell how good the honey is.

Good honey has a higher concentration, so it is thicker, and when pouring honey, it flows much slower than poor-quality honey.

Color. Good honey is lighter in color, usually amber or yellowish.

Inferior honey will be darker in color, generally dark yellow. Therefore, when we buy honey, we can identify it from this aspect.

There are many ways to distinguish the quality of honey, the simple one is to see if there will be delamination after a period of time, and the delamination is fake honey.

1. If you buy it in the supermarket, there is a high possibility of fake. Because there is very little real honey in the supermarket. Real honey can't get on the supermarket.

2. Crystallized honey is good honey, crystallization is the characteristic of honey, and that is not because of added sugar.

3. Your colleague sent you badly, because this is obviously immature honey, the conversion rate of immature honey sucrose is low, the nutrition is greatly reduced, and it will ferment and deteriorate as soon as the day is hot, which means that it is rotten, and if you still eat the fermented honey, you will eat bad stomach. That white foam indicates that fermentation has begun.

4. In addition, at the level of ordinary people, you can't identify fake honey when you buy it in the bee farm, and you can't identify it, let alone fake it. Don't think that going to the apiary will have real honey. Many large-scale acquisition companies have detection tools to go to the bee farm to buy, and they often receive fake honey, you don't understand anything, and there are no detection tools, which is easier to deceive!

Fake is not fake, honey contains too much water, bees need to brew honey in the hive after harvesting, it takes 7 days to mature, beekeepers harvest honey once in order to produce more honey in 2-3 days, naturally very thin.

It's good for a friend to send you that. There is a beekeeper near my house. Mom bought there for many years. Pure is pale yellow. Thin. Hope it helps.

You can drink it. It's just that it hasn't been processed. After processing, it is cooked honey.

It's not fake, it's pure honey that hasn't been treated.

At present, there are four main methods of honey counterfeiting: first, white sugar is boiled with water and sulfuric acid, and the longer the boiling time, the darker the color; the second is to use less sugar, use more water, and add thickeners to increase the concentration of fake honey; the third is to use caramel and syrup to directly pass off as honey; Fourth, add color thickener with syrup.

1. Look carefully.

Look at the color: Real honey is transparent or translucent in color. Because real honey contains some proteins, biological enzymes, minerals and pollen, it does not look very bright, white, pale yellow or amber, and light color is preferred.

Because fake honey is boiled with white sugar or passed off with syrup, it has a bright color, generally light yellow or dark yellow; Look at the shape: real honey is a viscous liquid, provoked by visible flexible filaments, and constantly flowing. Fake honey has suspended solids or precipitation, small viscosity, droplets when provoked, and there is a broken flow.

Real honey becomes thinner after exposure, while fake honey has no change or is more viscous. If the honey is very thin and flows easily, it may be mixed with water; Look at the label: Some honey products have ingredients such as sucrose, sugar, and fructose syrup that are not allowed to be added to pure honey products.

2. Smell carefully.

Real honey smells pure and natural, with a faint floral hint of botanical, while fake honey smells pungent or fruity sugar.

3. Taste it for yourself.

Real honey is sweet and delicious, with a sticky and mushy mouthfeel, a slight sour taste, and a long aftertaste. Fake honey tastes bitter or chemically strange when tasted carefully, has no aromatic flavor, and the crystalline blocks chew like granulated sugar, and the sound is crisp and loud.

Fourth, hot water dissolving.

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

In addition, for the honey mixed with water or other impurities on the market, it can be identified by the following methods: distinguish the honey mixed with water and sucrose: drop the honey on white paper or straw paper, if the honey on the paper gradually seeps, it means mixed with sucrose and water; Distinguish between starch-blended honey:

Put a small amount of honey into a cup, add an appropriate amount of water, boil, wait for cooling, drop a few drops of iodine wine, if the color of the solution turns blue, it means that it is mixed with starch; Distinguish honey mixed with impurities: use a red-hot iron wire to insert it into the honey, if there is stickiness attached to the wire, it means that it is adulterated; If the wire is still smooth, it means that there are no impurities.

The method of identifying royal jelly: the liquid surface is flat, there is no air groove, the smell is slightly fragrant, the tongue has a sour and astringent taste when entering the mouth, and there is a slight spicy feeling. At the same time, the quality of the journey reminds consumers that they should also pay attention to the correct way to drink honey, not with water that is too hot, but with warm water.

Don't buy honey indiscriminately, teach you a good way to choose honey, and learn everything.

Add a little honey to overnight tea water to make it cloudy and dark, and vice versa is good honey.

Look at the honey is a little cloudy inside, not very clear and clean, and it should be viscous, which is a better honey.

It is difficult to distinguish between real and fake honey, and all fake honey is made of white sugar + a small amount of additivesHoney made by naturally stocked bees is removed from the honeycomb and the pomace is removed, and in a few days it becomes like lard. I have a real **, but unfortunately I can't upload it at the first level, you can contact to view.

Natural stocking, only twice a year to harvest honey, winter honey is the best. Spring honey with grass and black flowers will make people troublesome.

Observe the viscosity and the presence or absence of precipitation

At low temperatures, large particles are not as good as small particles, and if the ants do not eat the honey as fake honey, the color of the good honey is yellow and transparent.

See if it freezes in winter, it's very white. Look at the concentration in the summer....Because my family produces their own honey.

Don't buy honey indiscriminately, teach you a good way to choose honey, and learn everything.