1. Look at the color

Generally speaking, dark honey contains more minerals than light honey. If you want to supplement trace elements, you can choose dark honey, such as date honey. Good-quality honey has a fine texture and bright color; poor-quality honey is usually cloudy and has poor gloss. The color of real honey does not look very clear, but is white, light yellow or amber, preferably light. Fake honey is bright in color, usually light yellow or dark yellow.

2. Smell

Impure honey will smell like fruit sugar or artificial flavors. Honey mixed with spices will have an unusual fragrance. Pure honey will have a natural smell and a light smell. Floral. Fake honey smells pungent or fruity.

3. Look at the consistency

Generally speaking, the thicker the honey, the better. This is because the viscosity of honey is related to its moisture content. The national standard stipulates that the moisture content is less than 20 as a first-class product. When choosing honey in the supermarket, you can turn the bottle upside down. The slower it flows, the thicker it will be. Due to its sticky texture, honey has the characteristic of being stringy.

4. Look at the wire drawing

After buying the honey home, drop a drop of it. The wire drawing of good honey will be very long, and the upper end will spring back quickly after the flow is cut off. If it is fake honey or low-quality honey, it will not bounce back quickly. When you pick up the real honey, you can see the flexible filaments and there is no flow break. The fake honey has a lot of suspended solids and sediments, and it falls in a drop shape when you pick it up, and there is a break in the flow.

5. Taste

Pure honey has a mellow taste, a sweet aroma, a long aftertaste after entering the mouth, and is easy to crystallize; impure honey has a single sweet taste, no aroma, and a taste of white sugar water. , the crystals melt in the mouth, have an astringent taste, are slightly sticky, and dissolve quickly when poured into water. Fake honey has a bitter taste and the crystallized pieces chew like granulated sugar.