A, honey identification methods

1, smell:

Honey odor. After opening the bottle, fresh honey has a clear floral flavor, stale honey flavor is lighter. Fake honey made with flavoring has an unpleasant odor. Monofloral honey has the scent of its own honey source.

2, taste:

Taste the flavor of honey. Pure honey not only has a pleasant aroma, but also has a strong flavor when tasted by mouth. Put the honey on the tongue, tongue against the upper jaw, honey slowly into the throat, will feel slightly sweet and slightly sour, delicate taste, throat feeling slightly spicy, long aftertaste. After the adulteration of honey, the above feeling becomes lighter, and there is a sugary taste, stronger sour or salty taste.

3, pick:

Check the water content of honey. Our country is accustomed to take unripe honey, so the water content of honey is high. Most of the honey sold on the market has been processed and concentrated, and its water content is relatively low. The first thing you need to do is to check the water content of the honey, and then you can check the water content of the honey, and then you can check the water content of the honey. You can also put a drop of honey on a piece of straw paper. If the water spreads easily, it means that the water content is high. Pure honey is in the shape of a ball and does not spread.

4. Twist:

Observe and feel the crystallization. In summer, when the temperature is high, honey is not easy to crystallize; in winter, when the temperature is low, honey is easy to crystallize. Some honeys are easy to crystallize and some are not. Some people have misunderstandings about honey crystallization, thinking that a crystallization is fake honey or adulterated, which is not true.

Honey crystallized in the form of fish seeds or grease, delicate, white in color, hand twisted without a sense of grit, the crystallized material is easy to melt in the mouth. Sugar-doped honey crystals were granular, hand-twisted with a gritty feeling, not easy to twist and crumble, the mouth has the feeling of eating sugar.

5, dissolve:

Dissolve the honey in water, stir well and let it stand, if there are impurities in the honey will float or sink. Honey is a natural product, a small amount of impurities does not affect the quality of the honey itself.

Second, the classification of honey

The grade of honey is based on the quality of honey, divided into four grades of first-class honey, second-class honey, third-class honey, and other external honey. The specific division is as follows.

1, first-class honey

This kind of honey taste sweet, sticky but transparent, not turbid, the color of water white or light amber, this grade of honey are lychee honey, citrus honey, purple yunying honey, thorn honey, linden honey, acacia honey, eurycoma honey, ginseng honey, grass and rhinoceros honey, and so on.

2, second-class honey

This type of honey is slightly worse than the first-class honey, easier to crystallize, the honey flavor is also lighter than the first-class honey, this level of honey rape honey, alfalfa honey, sunflower honey, huzhizi honey, white thorns flower honey, cotton honey, jujube honey, the old melon head honey, camelina honey, wild Kanzi honey.

3, third-class honey

This class of honey is less, more easily crystallized, although still relatively sweet, but which has a sour taste. Some of the honeys in this class are Uber Honey, Sesame Honey and Longan Honey.

4, wait outside the honey

This class of honey first from the taste is not good, the color is also darker, there is a special smell, the general public do not like to eat this type of honey, this class of honey has eucalyptus honey, buckwheat honey, gooseberry honey.

Expanded Information:

Buy honey to pay attention to a few points:

(1) Look at the QS logo, into the market honey product packaging label must QS production license logo.

(2) Buy your own familiar and well-known brands or influential brands, have their own breeding base to ensure high nutritional value.

(3) You should check the ingredient list on the label of the honey product, the ingredient list of pure honey contains no substances other than honey.

(4) Fake honey is less expensive than real honey, too cheap products fake honey can be big, try not to buy the price is lower than similar honey products.

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