How to distinguish between commercial honey and local honey?

The quality of honey can be distinguished from four aspects: color, aroma, taste and intensity

Color: Real honey has strong light transmittance and uniform color; Inferior honey is cloudy and has impurities. The new honey is light amber and transparent**.

Aroma: Real honey can exude a unique honey fragrance a few months after harvesting, fragrant and long-lasting, and can be smelled when the bottle is opened; Or put a little honey in the palm of your hand, rub it and smell it, there is a fascinating honey fragrance.

Taste: Honey is refreshing and sweet, never prickly in the throat. Honey is added to boiling water, stirred slightly, and melted without precipitation, which is good honey; Inferior honey is not easy to dissolve, and there is precipitation.

Thick: The finest honey has a high concentration and a slow flow. 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.

Because farmhouse honey is honey that has not undergone any processing, concentration, and addition, it is rich in a variety of amino acids and active enzymes... The honey sold in supermarkets is generally processed by the manufacturer. I killed the active enzymes in the honey.

Therefore, it will not ferment, but it also loses most of the nutrients of natural honey.

Let's first define what is called earth honey.

Personally, I think that soil honey should be honey produced by Chinese bees.

If this premise is recognized, then the easiest way to distinguish is that soil honey is multi-nectar, and if you see any jujube nectar, acacia honey or something, it is basically not soil honey.

Soil honey, the scientific name is medium honey, that is, the honey of Chinese honey bees. The "soil" of soil honey is the "soil" of the native and indigenous people, not the "soil" of the soil, which is related to the variety of bees, rather than the "honey made by the beekeeping of old farmers in the countryside is soil honey" as some people understand. We need to understand the difference between local honey and foreign honey from the senses.

1.Look at the apiary.

The honeycombs (barrels or boxes) of the earth bees are placed and scattered, far away, and arranged irregularly, because the middle bees are wild, and if they are placed too densely, the populations will fight each other; If it is placed too neatly, the bees will lose their nests.

The honeycombs of foreign bees (basically wooden boxes) are densely placed, relatively neat, in rows and columns, and even stacked in two or three layers.

2.Look at the hive. Because the earth bees generally do not intervene manually, the honey is only taken once a year in old-fashioned wooden barrels, and the small bees brew their own, and the shape of the honey is naturally irregular.

And the Italian bee is mostly a live frame shaken honey with manual intervention.

3.Look at the honey. Smell the fragrance of flowers, the soil honey is rich in floral fragrance, and the foreign honey is relatively refreshing and elegant; In terms of taste, native honey is often sweet and sour, or slightly bitter, or a little bit of traditional Chinese medicine, while foreign honey is often simply sweet;

4.Look at the color, soil honey is taken twice a year, with high purity, less moisture, easy to crystallize at low temperature, and when it is liquid, the color is turbid, the transparency is low, and there are many active enzyme bubbles.

When the Italian honey is in liquid, because it is a single flower species, such as rape nectar, acacia nectar, and jujube nectar, it is in the flowering period, and the honey is taken in about a week, and the water is more colorful, and it is relatively thin.

Therefore, if you want to buy real soil honey, you must carefully compare the soil honey and foreign honey with the slag, and then look at the environment of the honey source, whether the honey is good or not, it depends on whether the honey source is polluted, whether there are rich wild flowers and medicinal herbs, and natural geographical advantages.

If you buy local honey from an e-commerce platform with a third-party guarantee, you should pay attention to several issues:

Look at the sales: some claim that the monthly sales of soil honey reach thousands or even tens of thousands, which is basically fake and is likely to be processed honey, because the yield of soil honey is low, it is difficult to harvest 10,000 catties of soil honey a year, and a real beekeeper cannot have so much honey.

2.Look**: The yield of soil honey is low, the cost is high, and the claim that soil honey is only sold for thirty or forty yuan is not very likely.

3.Check the place of delivery of the express order number: because the bees are raised in the mountains, are the people in the mountains to raise the bees, if the express number is checked, it is from the big city, or the place of delivery and the place where the honey seller said is more than 100 kilometers away, then try to ask, the mountain people send an express is also to the town or the local county can send the express, who will run more than 100 kilometers away to send the express?

Clause. 1. The easiest way is to see if there is a layer of white foam on the top of the honey you buy, the honey I drink all the year round is directly bought from the beekeeper in the mountains, and there is a layer of white foam on it, and the honey made is not like this.

Clause. Second, again, you carefully observe the honey you bought, whether it is particularly clear inside, there is a very thorough feeling, most of the supermarkets are like this, you don't buy this, real soil honey can't be so clear.

Clause. 3. There is another characteristic of soil honey, it will be very thin in summer, and it is impossible to have the so-called drawing phenomenon, and in winter it crystallizes directly when it is cold, and the honey in the supermarket, when have you ever seen crystallization?

Clause. Fourth, if you can, drop a drop of honey on your hands, rub it with your hands constantly, you will find that there is a heavy grit feeling, artificial sensitivity blending, guarantee that this is not the case.

Soil honey is medium honey, which is brewed by bees collecting nectar, and most of the honey on the market is brewed by bees collecting nectar. Although the species of bee colonies used to make honey differ, the method of identification is the same.

Most people can only use sensory testing methods to judge honey by seeing, tasting, touching, etc., but looking at the test report can make a better judgment.

Look at the honey color. Real honey is transparent or translucent. Fake honey is bright in color, generally light yellow or dark yellow.

Look at the viscosity. Real honey is a viscous liquid that provokes visible flexible filaments and flows continuously. Fake honey has suspended solids or precipitation, small viscosity, droplets when provoked, and there is a broken flow.

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

Hehe, the upstairs is really copied from elsewhere, and the color, consistency, and smell have nothing to do with earth honey at all, and even have little to do with honey, because it is impossible to use this standard to judge whether it is real honey, let alone earth honey. First of all, soil honey is produced by soil bees, in order to distinguish it from Italian honey, the most important point is the spicy throat feeling, Italian bees you do not have this situation. Secondly, there are many types of nectar in soil honey, and it is not a single honey species.

In the end, it's really hard to distinguish, because the counterfeiting technology is too high, and it's really not easy for ordinary people to distinguish!!

It's normal to smell weird. The purity of the farmer's soil honey is high, and the knowledge has not been filtered and sterilized, and the wings, bee body and some excrement of various honeys will remain, so it tastes strange. As for how to distinguish the real from the fake. Tell you 4 ways to identify.

1. [Mixed with maltose] take honey and put it in a glass, add four times the water, mix well, add medical alcohol drop by drop, fake honey has white flocculents, real honey is turbid, no flocculents.

2. [Mixed with sucrose] Put the honey in the refrigerator and crystallize after 24 hours. The real honey is pinched by hand, and its crystals dissolve quickly. Fake honey dissolves slowly or does not dissolve, real honey crystals are fine and soft, chopsticks can be inserted, fake honey is hard, chopsticks can not be inserted.

3. [Mixed with starch] Dissolve and dilute the honey with an appropriate amount of water, drop 2 drops of iodine solution, and there is a blue reaction, that is, it contains starch.

4. [Mixed with flavor] Take the honey and put it in the palm of your hand, rub it repeatedly for 30 seconds, and smell the smell. The flavored honey is syrupy, and the real honey has a light floral aroma.

5. Under normal circumstances, you can take some and put them on the glass, that is, apply a layer on the surface of the glass, and then dry it in the sun, or dry it with a hair dryer.

Honey does not need to be sterilized, but if the bees do not go on the hive when cutting honey, they may cut some of the bees' limbs into the honey together, my grandfather raised a nest of native bees, the honey is eaten at home, the taste is sometimes different, this depends on the honey picked at home, the native bees will pick any flowers, honey is a natural food, it is normal to have sundries in it, but which ingredients are relatively single worthy of suspicion.

The dark brown color is earth honey, and the one in the supermarket is bright yellow, which is processed and will add a lot of things, while the home-brewed one will not have such a bright color, and it is like lard in winter.

1.Look at it with your heart.

First of all, when distinguishing between real and fake soil honey, you should look at its color, usually the color of real earth honey is transparent or translucent, but it is not very bright. Intuitively, the honey is mainly white, pale yellow or amber, of which the main light color is preferred. Fake honey is bright in color, and the color is mainly light yellow or dark yellow.

In addition to the color, we can also tell from the shape that real honey is generally a viscous liquid, and when it is picked up, a flexible filament can be seen, which flows continuously.

In the case of fake soil honey, there will be suspended solids or precipitation, and the viscosity is very small, and it often drops when picked. Moreover, fake honey also has a broken flow, even if it can stretch the filament, but the broken filament is not elastic and will not shrink into honey beads.

2.Smell carefully.

When we choose honey, we can also use the method of smell to judge the real and false honey, first of all, we use the red wire to insert into the honey, if the wire is attached to the sticky, it means that there are impurities, it must be impure honey. However, if the wire is still smooth, it means that there are no impurities, and in addition, the smell of real earth honey is pure and natural, and there will be a faint floral aroma of plant flavor under the smell, which is the most obvious feature.

But usually fake honey does not smell like this faint floral fragrance, but has a pungent odor, in addition to some fake honey will also have the taste of fruit candy, this kind of honey is either fake or blended.

3.Taste it for yourself.

There are many ways to distinguish the real from the fake, in addition to the above two one-sided observations, we can also judge the authenticity by tasting the method. In general, if it is real local honey, then the taste should be sweet and delicious, and it will also be accompanied by a sticky mouthfeel. Not only that, but real honey will also have a slight sour taste and a long aftertaste.

Fake honey, on the other hand, has a bitter or chemical flavor and has no floral aroma at all.

After eating it, the fake honey has a weak throat and a thin and short aftertaste, so it is best not to buy this honey when you taste it. In particular, some honey with a very uncomfortable taste should not be eaten or bought.

Identification method of soil honey authenticity:

A look: soil honey in spring, autumn and winter will crystallize, semi-crystalline, summer is the upper part of the liquid state, the lower part of the semi-crystalline, in the semi-crystalline state is the kind of rustle, the color is divided into earthy yellow, orange, dark red, due to the pollen region, the color is different. Native honey is generally higher than Italian honey Baumé.

Second smell: Earthy honey is a mixed floral note, while Italian bee's is a single floral scent.

Three products: take a small spoonful of soil honey and put it in the mouth to taste, the taste is strong, the floral fragrance is refreshing, swallow slowly, some are sweet and long, some have obvious spicy throat, and some have residual sour taste within 10 minutes of the entrance, because it is made of natural nectar, there is no unified taste standard.

Four pinching: The crystalline particles of soil honey melt as soon as you pinch it in your hand.

First, first of all, take chopsticks to stir the honey separately, a large amount of foam into unprocessed pure soil honey, concentrated processed honey does not have this characteristic, most of the soil honey is relatively thin.

In addition to glucose and fructose, the most important nutrients in honey are a large number of active enzymes and trace elements. And what really works on the human body is the most important thing is the active enzyme.

The active enzymes in honey work best when they are close to the body's body temperature, which is why it must be taken with warm water below 40 degrees. If it exceeds 40 degrees, the active enzyme will be damaged to varying degrees. More than 60 degrees, some of the most important active enzymes will be completely destroyed, honey processing and concentration, is to evaporate the water in the honey, the concentration of concentrated honey, evaporating water requires a high temperature of about 80, destroying the active enzymes, evaporating 95% of the water, so there will be no flatulence and a lot of foaming, but the nutrition is also destroyed at the same time, but it is more conducive to business after processing.

2. Take a paper towel and put a little honey on the paper towel, the soil honey will be evenly dispersed on the paper towel, and the fake honey may not be dispersed or condensed in the middle, and the surrounding area will be scattered like water.

3. Smell the smell, the soil honey will be slightly fermented, producing a slightly stronger floral fragrance, with a little pungent and slightly sour taste, and the fake honey will have insufficient aroma.

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:

A large amount of foam appears on the upper layer of the liquid and does not subside for a long time, sometimes for as long as 2 hours.

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

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.

Seeing whether the honey is crystallized is also a way to determine whether the honey is real or fake. Honey contains a large amount of fructose and glucose, in the case of high glucose content, less water, and low temperature, honey is easy to crystallize, while fake honey uses fructose as the main raw material and will not crystallize.

The difference is very small, they all rely on eating and eating experience.

I buy honey from each house, taste it, compare it, and slowly feel the difference.

And the color of honey varies from year to year depending on the flowering period, rain, light, etc.