Many people usually like to drink honey water. Honey has a very good health effect. Natural honey has high nutritional value. However, in order to make profits, some people will make fake honey. The nutrition of this honey is greatly reduced. And some are harmful to the human body. You need to be cautious when buying honey. So how to distinguish the authenticity of honey? How to identify the quality of honey?

1. How to distinguish true and false honey

1. Smell

Smell Single flower honey has the unique floral fragrance of herbal plants, while mixed honey has a natural The fake honey has a floral aroma, some of which are cane sugar and some of which are spices.

2. Dissolve in hot water

Put the honey into hot water and dissolve it. If no precipitation occurs after letting it stand for 3-4 hours, it is pure honey and good honey.

3. Taste

Honey with a pure and natural taste is sweet, slightly sour, soft and delicate, refreshing and soft, with a slightly spicy taste in the throat and a long aftertaste. Although the taste of adulterated honey is sweet, it is mixed with sugar or spices, has a weak throat feel, and has a light and short aftertaste. In short, when it comes to identifying the authenticity of honey, using only one method may cause certain errors. You can use multiple methods at the same time to identify a kind of honey. Under normal circumstances, you can determine the authenticity of honey.

4. Eye observation

1. To see the concentration of honey, insert a chopstick into the honey and pull it up vertically. Honey with high concentration flows down slowly and is very sticky and can be stringy. The opposite is true for fake honey or honey with low concentration. Even if the filaments can be stretched, the broken filaments will not be elastic and will not shrink into honey beads.

2. Drop a drop of honey on a piece of paper. Pure honey with high concentration is hemispherical and difficult to soak into the paper. Honey with low concentration or fake honey can easily soak into the paper.

3. Take a glass of water and add a little honey. Real honey will sink to the bottom of the cup quickly and is not easy to melt. When stirred slowly with chopsticks, there will be strands of honey. If it is fake honey, it will dissolve into the water very quickly.

4. Look at the crystallization. The crystallization of honey is related to the type of plant and temperature. Generally, pure natural honey is easy to crystallize at 13-14℃. Honey that can fully crystallize generally has low water content, high concentration, and is not easy to deteriorate, so it is high-quality honey. The crystallized pure honey is rolled by hand and feels delicate without any grit. Fake honey is not easy to crystallize, or part of it precipitates. The precipitate is hard and difficult to crush.

2. Identify the adulteration methods of honey

1. Use food crops to process into syrup (also called fructose syrup) as honey. In order to look like the real thing, counterfeiters also add chemical substances such as thickeners, sweeteners, preservatives, flavors and pigments to the fake honey.

2. Boil white sugar with water and sulfuric acid, and use acidolysis to decompose the disaccharide molecules of the white sugar into monosaccharides to fake honey.

3. Use caramel, syrup, etc. to pretend to be honey.

4. Use sugar syrup to add color thickener.

3. Be careful when drinking honey

1. Honey that has not been refined or has been left for too long cannot be eaten

First of all, we need to pay attention to honey refined with MSG. It cannot be eaten as it will have a certain reaction on the body, and it cannot be eaten after long-term prevention and treatment. Some substances in unrefined honey have the same ingredients as bee venom, which can cause immune reactions after entering the human body. Serious poisoning reactions may also occur if jujube honey that has been left for a long time becomes flocculated.

2. Do not take honey with cold and fever medicine

We all know that honey can relieve coughs, but if we have a cold, honey cannot be taken with cold medicine. Most people who have a cold will cough, and honey has a cough-relieving effect, so many people drink honey to relieve cough symptoms when they have a cold. However, if you are taking antipyretics or cold medicines containing antipyretic ingredients, you should not take honey at the same time. Many cold medicines, such as Tylenol, Crack, Ganlik, Ganmaoqing, etc., contain the antipyretic and analgesic drug acetaminophen. When it comes into contact with honey, it will form a complex, affecting the body's absorption rate of it, thereby affecting the body's absorption rate. Reduce the antipyretic effect.

3. Remember not to use boiling water to brew honey

If we want to drink honey water, we need to pay attention to controlling the water temperature. We cannot use boiling water to brew honey. If the water temperature exceeds 60℃, it will It will seriously destroy the nutrients in honey. High temperature will deactivate the enzymes contained in honey and reduce its ability to inhibit bacterial growth. It will also make the unique aroma of honey disappear and produce an unpleasant sour taste. It is recommended to use warm or cold water to brew honey water. In summer, honey brewed with cold water has the effect of relieving heat and relieving heat.

4. Babies under one year old should not eat honey

Babies should not eat honey. Parents need to understand that it may cause infant poisoning. Honey is susceptible to contamination by Lactobacillus botulinum during the brewing, transportation and storage processes. Since infants have weak resistance, after ingesting Lactobacillus botulinum, it will multiply in the intestines and produce toxins. The liver's detoxification function is poor, so it is easy to cause Lactobacillus botulinum food poisoning.

Sugar is the main cause of obesity. Many people are afraid that eating too much honey will lead to obesity. We all know that eating too much sugar can easily lead to obesity, so some people think that eating honey can also make people gain weight. . In fact, the fatty acids contained in honey can effectively promote intestinal peristalsis and play a very good role in preventing and treating constipation. Moreover, honey contains very low calories, so there is no need to worry about drinking honey causing fat accumulation.