How to identify whether honey is real or fake

Honey is something we are very familiar with in our lives. Honey is rich in nutritional value. Eating honey regularly is very helpful to our health, so honey is loved by many people. There are many kinds of honey on the market. When purchasing, you must learn how to distinguish them so that you can buy truly good honey. When distinguishing honey, you can identify it in several aspects.

1. Smell

Ordinary honey has the unique floral scent of herbal plants, and mixed honey has a natural floral scent. Fake honey may have the taste of sucrose or spices.

2. Visual observation

1. To check the concentration of honey, insert a chopstick into the honey and pull it up vertically. Honey with high concentration flows down slowly and is very sticky and can be drawn into threads. Fake honey or honey with low concentration is the opposite. Even if it can be stretched into long threads, the broken threads will not be elastic and will not shrink into honey beads.

2. You can drop a drop of honey on a piece of paper. Pure honey with high concentration is hemispherical and not easy to penetrate the paper. Low concentration or fake honey can easily penetrate the paper.

3. Take a glass of water and add a little honey. Real honey will sink to the bottom of the cup and is not easy to melt. When you stir it slowly with chopsticks, it will form strings. If it is fake honey, it will dissolve in water very quickly.

4. Look at the crystallization. The crystallization of honey is related to the type of plant and temperature. Generally, pure natural honey is easy to crystallize at 13-14℃. Honey that can be completely crystallized generally has low water content, high concentration, and is not easy to deteriorate, so it is high-quality honey. Crystallized pure honey feels smooth and has no gritty feel when rubbed with hands. Fake honey is not easy to crystallize, or some of it will precipitate. The precipitate is hard and not easy to crush.

3. Taste

The honey has a pure and natural taste, is sweet and slightly sour, soft and delicate, refreshing and soft, slightly spicy in the throat, and has a long and fragrant aftertaste. Adulterated honey tastes sweet but is mixed with sugar or spice, has a weak throat feel, and a thin, short aftertaste.

What is good honey?

The taste of honey

The taste of good honey is pleasant. There are many varieties of honey in my country, and each type of honey has its own unique smell. Although most honeys taste very pleasant, there are also many honeys that are not so satisfactory. I think good honey must have good taste.

Maturity of honey

Even unprocessed natural honey can be good or bad. Good honey has a high degree of maturity, while bad honey has a low degree of maturity. The obvious indicator of this is the degrees Baume. I believe that honey with a degrees Baume of 42 degrees can be called good honey.

How honey is produced

We know that the honey sold on the market can be divided into concentrated honey and natural honey. This is related to the current honey production environment. Concentrated honey is concentrated by concentration equipment in order to remove excess water in the honey, but some nutrients of the honey will be damaged in the process. Therefore, I always think that concentrated honey cannot be regarded as good honey.

Long-term and large-scale consumption of fake honey is harmful to health

Honey itself contains sugars, mainly fructose, which is a disaccharide. Honey should be consumed in moderation, not too much, and certainly not as white sugar. Eating honey in large quantities for a long time can easily induce diabetes.