Knowing whether there is honey in "honey" is actually very simple! Just use a glass of clear water, then pour a certain amount of honey into the clear water, cover the bottle cap and shake it hard. The observation results show that if there are rich bubbles in the clear water, it means that some "honey" does contain honey; If there are no bubbles or only a few bubbles exist, you can be sure that there is no honey in this "honey"!
The picture above shows white bubbles produced by adding real pure natural honey to a glass of water.
Why can this method only identify the ingredients in "honey" but not the authenticity of "honey"?
Because, the real honey, after shaking with clear water, is because the ingredients in honey are very complicated, including vitamins, a small amount of minerals, pollen, hydrogen peroxide, active enzymes and so on. The main component in clean water is H2O, which actually contains a small amount of oxygen. So when you shake honey, hydrogen peroxide will react with oxygen in clear water to produce white bubbles! This is why real honey always has a layer of white bubbles on it.
The picture above shows the top layer of truly pure natural honey covered with rich white bubbles.
Since there is hydrogen peroxide, why can't you correctly say that honey is true or false? As mentioned above, honey contains the most beneficial active enzyme besides hydrogen peroxide, so the active enzyme factor is sensitive to heat. So as long as honey is heated slightly, the active enzymes in honey can be reduced by more than 2/3 or even disappear completely, and heating honey may produce harmful substances. References:
The harm of heating honey, but after heating, hydrogen peroxide may still exist in a small amount, so bubbles may also be generated, but the heated honey is no longer real honey, but a honey product. In the international honey standard, honey is defined as pure natural and unprocessed. So pasteurized honey can only be honey products, and even more outrageous high-temperature concentrated honey can be classified as fake honey!
The picture above shows that high-temperature concentrated honey, like natural honey, will add water to produce white bubbles!
Many businesses are very smart. Since concentrated honey is fake honey, that's fine. I just can't concentrate. In order to increase the yield, I just add fructose syrup and colorless and tasteless corn syrup to honey. On the one hand, it can effectively prevent honey from crystallizing and avoid consumers from mistaking white sugar. On the other hand, it can greatly increase the concentration of honey and make it look more viscous, which can achieve three purposes: increasing yield and preventing crystallization. This veritable fake honey can not only deceive consumers' eyes, but also escape laboratory testing, which is more "real" than real honey! No wonder China fake honey is considered as the third largest fake in the world!
The above picture shows honey mixed with fructose syrup and colorless and tasteless corn syrup. After adding water, there are still rich white bubbles!
To be sure, if there are no bubbles at all, there is no honey at all. It is 100% fake honey, and 100% is not honey!
The above picture shows that honey without any honey ingredients has no bubbles after adding water!
Summary:
Using a glass of clear water to identify whether honey is true or false can only identify whether there is honey component in honey, but not whether honey is true or false, or more correctly, only honey products that are not honey can be identified! So when we use a glass of clear water to identify the true and false honey, and finally combine the characteristics of pure natural honey, we can observe whether there are white bubbles above the honey without adding clear water!
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