How is honey fake? Honey has many functions, and many people will buy honey; But real honey needs bees to produce honey, and the output is unstable; Therefore, many unscrupulous merchants will cheat consumers by making fake honey. Here's how honey is faked.

How is honey faked 1

Forgery method

1, many unscrupulous merchants will add water to white sugar and then boil it with sulfuric acid. The fake honey produced is very harmful. If you drink it for a long time, it will affect the nerves of the body.

Many counterfeiters also use caramel and syrup as real honey, because caramel and syrup are very cheap, so they are often used.

3. Another way is to process some foods rich in high fructose corn syrup, and then make fake honey, which is profitable and takes advantage of many unscrupulous merchants to take risks.

Tips for buying honey

1, you must learn to observe when you buy it to see if it is the same as real honey.

2, you can smell it, the real honey has a fragrance, and you will know it if you taste it carefully.

3, if necessary, you can take a small bottle of iodine, take the right amount of honey, and add the right amount of iodine without knowing the truth. If it is fake, it will change color.

4. When purchasing, it is best to buy with some farmers who breed bees.

How to fake honey? 2 1. Pseudomolecules are prepared by boiling white sugar and sulfuric acid in a pot of white water, then decomposing disaccharide molecules of white sugar into monosaccharides by acid hydrolysis, and then adding chemicals such as thickener, sweetener, preservative, essence and pigment. This kind of case was reported by the media in May and October of 20 10/year 10.

2. At present, the most popular fake means is to produce high fructose corn syrup by fermentation with rice or amylase. The color of high fructose corn syrup is almost the same as that of natural honey. After adding essence, its properties are very similar to real honey. Many manufacturers have joined the army of counterfeiters. They even take the data of honey composition specified in the national honey standard as a reference and standard, making a big fraud and avoiding the technical detection of relevant departments.

3. Half-truth and half-falsehood, that is, adding a certain amount of real honey to the above fake honey makes it smell like honey, which can almost be confused with the real one.

At present, the most "advanced" fake method is to blend honey with "honey essence" extracted from beet, which is said to taste "better than real honey".