First, smell, single nectar has the unique floral fragrance of this plant, mixed honey has natural floral fragrance, and fake honey has some sucrose flavor and some spice flavor.

Second, the taste, pure natural honey, sweet and sour, soft and delicate, refreshing and soft, slightly spicy in the throat, long aftertaste. Although adulterated honey tastes sweet, it is mixed with sugar or spices. My throat feels weak and my aftertaste is light and short.

In a word, there may be some errors in identifying honey by only one method. You can use many methods to identify a kind of honey at the same time, and then you can judge whether it is true or not.

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How to distinguish true and false honey;

1, true honey is transparent or translucent. Real honey contains protein, biological enzymes, minerals, pollen and other ingredients, so it looks not very clear, and it is white, light yellow or amber, and light color is preferred. Fake honey is bright in color, usually light yellow or dark yellow, because it is boiled with white sugar or impersonated with syrup.

2. Real honey is a viscous liquid, which arouses visible flexible filaments and keeps flowing. False honey has suspended matter or precipitation, and its viscosity is small. When it is stirred, it falls drop by drop and then is cut off. After exposure, real honey becomes thinner, while fake honey remains unchanged or thickens. If honey is extremely thin and easy to flow, it may be mixed with water.

3. Real honey smells pure and natural, with faint floral fragrance, while fake honey smells pungent or fruity.

4. True honey is sweet and delicious, with sticky taste, slightly sour taste and long aftertaste. When you taste the crystal block, your teeth will be brittle and it will melt. If you taste the fake honey carefully, it has a bitter taste or a strange smell of chemicals, but it has no aromatic fragrance. The crystal block chews like sugar, and its voice is crisp and loud.

5, carefully check the product label, some honey product ingredients list says sucrose, white sugar, high fructose syrup, high fructose syrup and so on. This is not allowed by real honey products. The label of honey can only write nectar or pure honey. It can't be fake honey that steals the concept of honey cream and honey drink.

6. Honey mixed with flour, starch or corn flour is turbid in color and not sweet enough in taste. Put a small amount of honey into a cup, add a proper amount of water to boil, drop a few drops of yellow wine after cooling, and shake well. If the solution turns blue or red or purple, it means that the honey is mixed with starch.

7. Insert the red-hot wire into the honey. If it is good honey, you can see the smoke coming out after plugging in the wire, but you can also smell the fragrance of fruits and flowers. If mixed with sugar, it will smell burnt.

Identification method

1, smell, smell: the smell of honey. After opening the bottle, fresh honey has obvious floral fragrance, while old honey has faint fragrance. Fake honey made of essence smells bad. Single nectar has its own fragrance.

2. Taste: Taste the taste of honey. Pure honey not only smells pleasant, but also has a strong taste. When honey is placed on the tongue, the tongue touches the mandible, and the honey slowly enters the throat, it will feel slightly sweet and sour, with delicate taste, slightly spicy throat and long aftertaste. After honey is adulterated, the above feeling becomes weak, with sweet water taste and strong sour or salty taste.

3. Selection: Check the water content of honey. China generally takes immature honey, so honey has high water content. Most of the honey sold in the market is processed and concentrated, and its water content is relatively low. Stir the honey with chopsticks or fingers. It would be better if you could extract the honey. No wire drawing indicates high water content.

You can also drop a drop of honey on the toilet paper. If the water trace is easy to spread, it means that the water content is high. Pure honey beads do not come loose.

4. Twist: observe and feel crystallization. The temperature is high in summer, and honey is not easy to crystallize; Honey is easy to crystallize when the temperature is low in winter. Some honey crystallizes easily, while others are not. Some people misunderstand honey crystallization, and think that a crystallization is fake honey or adulteration, which is incorrect.

Honey crystals are fish eggs or grease-like, delicate, white in color, without sand feeling when rubbed by hand, and the crystals are easy to enter. The honey crystal mixed with sugar is granular, which feels like sand when twisted by hand, and it is not fragile, and it feels like eating sugar at the entrance.

5. Dissolve: dissolve honey in water, stir well and let stand. If there are impurities in honey, it will float or sink. Honey is a natural product, and a small amount of impurities does not affect the quality of honey itself.

6. Look: Look at the color of honey. Pure honey is shiny and transparent, with only a small amount of pollen residue and foam suspended in it, and no other excessive impurities. The color of honey varies from honey source to plant, but the color of honey in the same bottle should be uniform.

7, pour: Because of the low water content, high-quality honey is very sticky. If the sealed bottle is turned upside down, it is obviously "laborious" for the sealed air at the mouth of the bottle to float.

8. Mo: If you buy milky white or light yellow "crystal honey", just pick it out and put it on the back of your hand and gently rub it for a while, and those particles slightly thinner than edible salt will dissolve. This method can also be used to "test" royal jelly.

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