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How to identify the good and bad honey
1, smell: after opening the bottle of fresh honey has a clear floral aroma, stale honey scent is light, plus flavoring made of fake honey smell uncomfortable, single-flower honey has its own honey scent.

2, taste: the honey on the tongue to tongue against the palate, slowly into the throat will feel slightly sweet and slightly sour taste, delicate taste, throat feeling slightly spicy, long aftertaste, and adulterated honey has a sugary taste, a strong sour or salty taste.

3, pick: use chopsticks or fingers to pick up the honey can pull the best, no pulling phenomenon shows that the water content is high, you can also drop a drop of honey in the straw paper, the water is easy to diffuse the high water content, the pure honey is a bead of balls, not diffuse.

4, twist: honey crystals were fish seeds or grease-like, delicate, white color, hand twisting without a sense of grit, the crystallized material is easy to melt in the mouth, while sugar-doped honey crystals were granular, hand twisting with a feeling of sand, not easy to twist, the entrance to the mouth with the feeling of eating sugar.

5, dissolve: dissolve the honey in water and stir well, stand still, if there are impurities in the honey will float or sink, but because honey is a natural product, a small amount of impurities does not affect the quality of honey itself.

6, see: pure honey glossy and transparent, only a small amount of pollen froth suspended in it, and no other impurities too large, although the color of honey due to the different honey plants, the color shade varies, but the same bottle of honey in the color should be uniform.

7, pouring: high-quality honey due to low water content, very viscous, if the sealed bottle upside down, sealed in the bottle mouth of the air to float up obviously more effort.

8, hot: the naked eye can not distinguish when you can take a red-hot wire test, if it is a good honey, the wire inserted into the smoke can be seen out of the smell is still the fragrance of fruits and flowers, if it is adulterated with sugar will emit a burnt flavor.

9, Mo: milky white or yellowish crystallized honey "as long as the pick out on the back of the hand gently rubbed for a few moments, those particles are slightly finer than table salt will dissolve, this method can also be used to test royal jelly.