2. In terms of price, honey below 15 yuan/kg should be purchased with caution.
According to China's national food safety standard honey (GB14963-2011), honey should not be artificially mixed with other substances. Honey is a natural sweet substance that bees collect nectar, secretions or honeydew from plants and mix with their own secretions. Cheap local honey in the market is carefully purchased.
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Honey adulteration is full of traps.
Honey adulteration has been repeatedly banned. In the year of 20 13, the honey test of China Hong Kong Consumer Council showed that 14 of 55 kinds of honey were doped with sugar, and 12 of them were all called natural or pure honey. In August of 20 13, Beijing Food Office announced that the fructose and glucose contents of six kinds of "Guanyouge" honey were far below the national standard.
Experts such as Shi Bolin, a researcher at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Standardization of China National Institute of Standardization, pointed out that the nutritional value of fake honey is not as good as that of real natural honey, and patients with diabetes, dental caries and cardiovascular disease may aggravate their illness.
It classifies the means of honey counterfeiting into several categories: the most "low-level means" is to cook with white sugar or pretend to be honey with syrup, which is not common at present; Since then, water, starch, sucrose, maltose, nectar, etc. have been mixed into real honey, which can be identified by modern instruments and is not common. There are also high-priced nectar mixed with or posing as high-priced nectar, such as acacia honey mixed with rape nectar.
At present, fructose syrup, starch syrup, rice syrup and so on are most commonly used. The ratio of fructose and glucose in these syrups is very similar to that in honey, and all the detection indexes are in line with the national standards, which makes it very difficult to detect.
Sun Guofeng, deputy secretary-general of China Bee Products Association, also said that from the perspective of honey species, Ginkgo biloba is an angiosperm without nectaries, and the petals of honeysuckle are too long for bees to collect. If there is such honey, it is fake.
In addition, the latest data shows that the qualified rate of honey sampled by the Food and Drug Administration is 96%, indicating that the qualified rate of large and medium-sized brands is higher and adulteration is less. The "three noes" honey in small workshops may be the hardest hit by adulteration.
References:
China Net-Fengdu and Longzhen: The earth honey of "Mountain Gala" sold at a foreign price.
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China Youth Network-Australian honey is exposed to the highest toxin. There are many tricks in selling "earth honey" online.