Look at the color: true honey is transparent or translucent. Real honey contains protein, biological enzymes, minerals, pollen and other ingredients, so it looks not very clear, and it is white, light yellow or amber, and light color is preferred. Fake honey is bright in color, usually light yellow or dark yellow, because it is boiled with white sugar or impersonated with syrup. Look at the shape: true honey is a viscous liquid, which stirs up visible flexible filaments and flows continuously. False honey has suspended matter or precipitation, and its viscosity is small. When it is stirred, it falls drop by drop and then is cut off. After exposure, real honey becomes thinner, while fake honey remains unchanged or thickens. If honey is extremely thin and easy to flow, it may be mixed with water; Look at the label: there are some ingredients in the ingredient list of honey products, such as sucrose, white sugar and fructose syrup, but these substances are not allowed to be added to pure honey products.

Second, smell carefully.

Real honey smells pure and natural, with a faint floral fragrance, while fake honey smells pungent or fruity.

Third, taste it yourself.

True honey is sweet and delicious, with sticky taste, slightly sour taste and long aftertaste. When you taste the crystal block, your teeth will be brittle and it will melt immediately. If you taste the fake honey carefully, it has a bitter taste or a strange smell of chemicals, but it has no aromatic fragrance. The crystal block chews like sugar, and its voice is crisp and loud.

Fourth, hot water dissolves.

Put a spoonful of honey into a cup, add four to five times of hot water to dissolve it, and let it stand for three to four hours. If there is no precipitation, it is pure honey, good honey.

In addition, honey mixed with water or other impurities sold in the market can be identified by the following methods: distinguishing honey mixed with water and sucrose: dripping honey on white paper or toilet paper, if the honey on the paper gradually oozes out, it means that it is mixed with sucrose and water; The difference between honey and starch: put a small amount of honey into a cup, add a proper amount of water, boil, cool and drop a few drops of iodine. If the solution turns blue, it means that the starch is mixed; Distinguish honey mixed with impurities: insert red-hot iron wire into honey. If there is a sticky substance on the wire, it means that it is mixed with impurities; If the line is still smooth, there is no impurity.

Identification method of royal jelly: the liquid level is flat, there is no air gap, the smell is slightly fragrant, the tongue entrance is sour and slightly spicy, and the glass rod is inserted into the interior and stirred evenly, but it is stagnant but not sticky, and the flow is not smooth. At the same time, Wan Li Quality reminds consumers to pay attention to the correct drinking method of honey. Don't drink with hot water, drink with warm water.

How to distinguish true and false honey

The east. Com 17 news: "True and false honey can't be judged only by commodity packaging and surface properties." Yang, vice president of China Bee Products Association and general manager of Beijing Baihua Bee Products Co., Ltd., said in an interview a few days ago that on the surface, both true and false honey have formal commodity packaging, which is viscous liquid and sweet, but this is not the basis for judging whether honey is true or false.

Yang said that some consumers think honey is fake or adulterated when they see white crystals in honey, which is a misunderstanding. Crystallization is a characteristic of honey itself. It is a normal physical phenomenon that glucose contained in honey forms crystals at a certain temperature. Honey itself has not deteriorated and does not affect eating. Fake honey is not crystallized, but the white sugar added to some fake honey will also form a precipitate at the bottom of the bottle under certain conditions. It is easy to distinguish the crystallization of real honey from the precipitation of fake honey. Honey crystals are soft and can be easily inserted with chopsticks and twisted on your fingers. The sugar precipitated from fake honey is so thick that it is not easy to insert five with chopsticks. When it is wrapped around your finger, it will feel like gravel. He specifically introduced five ways to distinguish true and false honey by senses:

1. Fake honey looks clear and bright because it is boiled with white sugar or pretended with syrup, but the ingredients in real honey are very complicated, including protein, biological enzymes, minerals, vitamins, pollen and other ingredients in honey plants, so it is not very clear.

Second, fake honey has a faint smell of chemicals, which smells pungent or fruity, while real honey smells pure and natural, with rich honey flavor and faint floral fragrance.

Third, fake honey tastes sweet, and some carefully taste the strange smell of chemicals, while real honey tastes mellow and has a long aftertaste.

Fourth, the cost of fake honey is much lower than that of real honey, and the sales strategy of fake honey often captures the psychology of consumers who are greedy for cheap, so the price of fake honey is generally very low. So, cheap honey is probably fake.

5. Check the product label carefully. The ingredients list of some honey products says sucrose, white sugar, fructose syrup, fructose syrup and so on. This is not allowed by real honey products.