1. Smell it with your nose
Honey generally includes single-flower honey and multi-flower honey. You can identify whether it is real nectar by smelling it. Sophora nectar has a faint scent of sophora flower. You can tell by smelling it. If it is a fake product, it will smell like sucrose or even spices. This kind of sophora nectar is definitely not authentic.
2. Look with your eyes
To identify the quality of sophora nectar, you can use chopsticks to help. Insert a chopstick into the sophora nectar and lift it up vertically. If it is honey with high concentration, , flows down slowly along the chopsticks, is highly sticky and can be stringy, and can shrink into honey balls after being broken. This kind of sophora nectar is better, otherwise the concentration is low or it is fake honey.
And when you make honey, you can also observe the quality of the honey. Add a small amount of sophora nectar to a cup of water. The real sophora nectar will quickly sink to the bottom of the cup. You need to use chopsticks to stir it. Melts, and acacia nectar usually melts into the water quickly.
3. Taste it with your mouth
You need to taste Sophora nectar. Generally, honey will have a spicy throat feeling when you drink it. It is very delicate, sweet and refreshing after entering the mouth. It is the real thing. If the honey is overly sweet, unpleasant and uncomfortable to drink, it is probably fake. Moreover, real Sophora nectar has a light sophora flower aroma, which can be felt when drinking.
4. Analyze the price
Sophora japonica honey is a relatively high-end honey, and the price is naturally not very cheap. The wholesale price may be cheaper, but the retail price is 50 per kilogram. ~100 yuan. If you see sophora nectar with too much price contrast or too cheap in a supermarket or market, you should pay attention. It may be adulterated with other substances.