How to identify the authenticity of honey? It turns out the method is so simple

Honey is a commonly used health food in people's daily life. Many unscrupulous vendors are optimistic about the market of honey. In order to make huge profits, they have produced a lot of fake honey and circulated it on the market. This is very harmful to human health. Therefore, how to distinguish the authenticity of honey when buying it has become a top priority. In fact, there are six ways to identify whether honey is real or fake. They are all very simple and you can learn them once you learn them.

When buying honey, you can use six intuitive and simple methods to distinguish the authenticity: look, smell, pour, pull, grind, and taste.

First look at the gloss and viscosity. Good honey is clear in color and as shiny as oil. When you shake the honey bottle, there is very little vibration. When you stop shaking, the honey hanging on the wall of the bottle will slowly flow down.

Second, smell the smell. Real honey is sweet and fragrant. Different nectars can have unique floral scents after brewing. Each type of honey has a unique aroma, and pure single flower nectar often has the same scent as the flower it comes from. If it is fermented and deteriorates, a yeasty or alcoholic smell can be smelled; if more white sugar, maltose or starch is added, the unique aroma of nectar will be lost.

Three-inverted honey bottle. High-quality honey has a sticky texture due to its low water content. If you turn the sealed honey bottle upside down, you will find that the air trapped at the bottle mouth is difficult to float up and form bubbles.

Fourth, pull the "honey silk". Use a small spoon or toothpick to stir some honey and stretch it outwards. Real honey can usually be pulled into thin and translucent "honey silk", and the silk will automatically shrink and become a ball after breaking.

Five-grinding particles. Buy milky white or light yellow natural "crystallized honey". You can pick out the crystals and grind them on your fingertips. The crystal particles of real honey are fine and will melt completely. The crystal particles of fake honey are hard and clumped together. Grinding with your fingertips will leave particles that are not easy to melt.

Sixth, taste the flavor: real honey tastes sweet at first, while some honeys have a slightly sour aftertaste. Honey tastes like honey, and sugar tastes like sugar. Pure honey is sweet and slightly sour, with a soft and delicate taste. The fake honey has a light honey flavor and a short aftertaste. For example, honey mixed with sucrose has a short aftertaste and a strong syrupy taste; honey mixed with urea tastes sweet but salty and astringent; honey mixed with thickeners has a sticky feeling in the mouth and a pungent smell.