One, look at the heart
Look at the color: the color of the real honey is transparent or translucent color. True honey contains some protein, biological enzymes, minerals and pollen and other components, so it does not look very bright, white, yellowish or amber, to light color is better. Fake honey is boiled with white sugar or pretending to be sugar syrup, so the color is bright, generally light yellow or dark yellow; look at the shape: real honey is a viscous liquid, picking up the visible flexible filaments, not flowing. Fake honey has a suspension or precipitation, viscosity is small, picked up when the drop-like drop, there is a break in the flow. Real honey becomes thinner after exposure to sunlight, while fake honey is unchanged or more viscous. If the honey is extremely thin and flows easily, it may be watered down; look at the label: there are some honey products with ingredients such as sucrose, white sugar and fructose syrup stated in the ingredient list, while pure honey products are not allowed to add these substances.
Second, carefully smell
True honey smell pure, natural, with a light plant flavor of flowers, while the fake honey smells pungent odor or fructose flavor.
Three, taste
True honey is sweet and tasty, sticky paste mouth feeling, there is a slight taste of light acidity, aftertaste long, taste crystallization block teeth bite that is crispy, containing that is melted. Fake honey carefully tasted bitter taste or chemical flavor, no aromatic flavor, crystalline block chewing as sugar, sound crunchy and loud.
Four, hot water soluble
Put a spoonful of honey into a cup, and then add four to five times the hot water to make it dissolve, and let it sit for three to four hours, such as no precipitation occurs is pure honey, good honey.
Additionally, for the market sale of water or other impurities in the honey, the following methods can be identified: distinguish between water and sugar honey: honey drops in white paper or straw paper, if the paper gradually seeped away from the honey, that is, mixed with sucrose and water; distinguish between honey mixed with starch: a small amount of honey into a cup, add the right amount of water, boil, to be cooled, drop a few drops of iodine, if the color of the solution becomes blue, that is, mixed with starch; distinguish between honey mixed with starch: a small amount of honey into a cup, add the appropriate amount of water, boil, to be cooled, drop a few drops of iodine, if the color of the solution becomes blue, that is, the solution is mixed with starch. Starch; distinguish between honey mixed with impurities: with a red-hot wire inserted into the honey, if the wire with mucus, that is mixed with impurities; such as the wire is still very smooth, that is no impurities.
Methods to identify royal jelly: liquid level, no air grooves, smell slightly fragrant, the tongue has a sour taste in the mouth, slightly spicy, with a glass rod inserted into the internal stirring, stagnant and not stained, flow and not smooth. Quality Miles also prompted consumers to drink honey and pay attention to the correct method, do not use too high a temperature of water to drink, but to use warm water to drink.
How to identify the real honey
Oriental news April 17: "Real honey can not be based only on commodity packaging and surface properties to judge." China Bee Products Association vice president, Beijing Hundred Flowers Bee Products Limited Liability Company general manager Yang Hanbing said in an interview with reporters on how to identify real and fake honey, said that on the surface, the real and fake honey have formal commodity packaging, are viscous liquid, all have a sweet taste, but this is not the basis for judging the authenticity of honey.
Yang Hanbing said that some consumers see white crystals in the honey, it is thought to be fake honey or adulterated honey, this is a misunderstanding. Crystallization is the characteristics of honey itself, honey contains glucose crystals at a certain temperature, is a normal physical phenomenon, the honey itself does not deteriorate, does not affect the consumption. Fake honey does not crystallize, but some fake honey with added sugar will also form a precipitate at the bottom of the bottle under certain conditions. It is easy to distinguish between the crystallization of real honey and the precipitation of fake honey. Honey crystals are fluffy and can be easily inserted with chopsticks and twisted on the fingers. Fake honey precipitation of white sugar is more dense, with chopsticks is not easy to insert five to go, put on the finger twist, there is a sense of gravel. He specifically introduced five sensory methods to distinguish between real and fake honey:
One, fake honey is boiled with sugar or sugar syrup impersonation, so it looks clear and bright, while the composition of the real honey is very complex, containing a number of proteins, bio-enzymes, minerals, vitamins, and pollen and other components of the nectar plant, so it is not very bright.
Second, fake honey has a vague odor of chemicals, smell and feel pungent or fructose flavor, while the real honey smell pure and natural, honey taste strong, there is a light floral aroma.
Three, fake honey taste sweetness single, some carefully taste the strange smell of chemicals, while the real honey taste mellow, long aftertaste.
Four, the cost of fake honey is much lower than the real honey, and fake honey in the sales strategy tends to capture the consumer's cheap psychology, so the price of fake honey is generally very low. Therefore, cheap honey is the possibility of fake.
Fifth, carefully check the product labeling, some honey products ingredients list written sucrose, white sugar, fructose syrup, high fructose syrup, etc., which is also not allowed for real honey products.