Some places are used to divide winter honey into spring honey, summer honey, fall honey and winter honey according to the season, and winter honey in each season has different *** properties. Here is the difference between spring honey and winter honey that I have organized for you, for your reference!

The difference between spring honey and winter honey

First, the moisture content of winter honey is less than the moisture content of spring honey.

Second, winter honey compared to spring honey, in terms of maturity, winter honey bees are more mature than spring honey. Spring honey bees heavier water, coupled with pollen is not fully into honey, so mixed all together, such spring honey is very easy to deteriorate.

How to identify winter honey

In the face of the quality of winter honey, consumers must learn to brighten their eyes, to master some convenient and feasible ways to identify real and fake winter honey. At present, there are four main means of counterfeiting winter honey: one is sugar with water and sulfuric acid to simmer, the longer the simmering time, the darker the color; the second is to use less sugar, more water, take the way to add thickening agent to increase the concentration of fake winter honey; the third is to use caramel, molasses, directly pretending to be winter honey; the fourth is to use the sugar diluted with the color of the thickening agent.

First, look at the heart to see the color

The color of the real winter honey is transparent or translucent. True winter honey contains some proteins, biological enzymes, minerals and pollen and other components, so it does not look very bright, white, yellowish or amber, to light color is better. Fake winter honey because it is boiled with sugar or pretending to be sugar syrup, so the color is bright, generally light yellow or dark yellow; look at the shape: the real winter honey is a viscous liquid, picking up the visible flexible filaments, constantly flowing.

Fake winter honey has a suspension or precipitation, viscosity is small, picked up when the drop-shaped drop, there is a break in the flow. After exposure to sunlight, the real winter honey becomes thin, while the fake winter honey is unchanged or more viscous. If the winter honey is extremely thin, easy to flow, it may be mixed with water; look at the label: there are some winter honey products in the ingredient list indicates sucrose, sugar, fructose syrup and other ingredients, while the pure winter honey products are not allowed to add these substances.

Second, carefully smell

True winter honey smell pure, natural, with a light plant flavor of flowers, while the fake winter honey smells pungent odor or fructose flavor.

Third, taste

True winter honey is sweet and delicious, sticky mouth feeling, a slight taste of light acidity, long aftertaste, taste the crystallization of the block when the teeth bite that is crispy, containing that is melted. Fake winter honey carefully tasted bitter or chemical taste, no aromatic flavor, crystallization block chewing as sugar, sound crisp and loud.

Fourth, hot water soluble

A spoonful of winter honey into a cup, and then add four to five times the hot water to make it dissolve, and let it sit for three to four hours, if no precipitation occurs, it is pure honey, good honey. In addition, for the market sale of winter honey mixed with water or other impurities, can be identified in the following ways: distinguish between water and sugar of winter honey: honey drops in white paper or straw paper, if the paper on the winter honey gradually seeped away, that is mixed with sugar and water; distinguish between winter honey mixed with starch: put a small amount of winter honey into a cup, add the right amount of water, boil, to be cooled down, drop a few drops of iodine, if the color of the solution becomes blue, that is mixed with starch; distinguish between mixed with impurities: use burner to melt the winter honey, then add four to five times hot water to dissolve the honey. impurities of winter honey: with a red-hot wire inserted into the honey, if the wire with mucus, that is mixed with impurities; such as the wire is still very smooth, indicating that there are no impurities.

What is the difference between winter honey and ordinary honey

Winter honey is a semi-solid state at room temperature similar to a precipitate. The color is white; that is, like winter boiled lard (slate). And ordinary pure honey is yellow thick liquid form. Winter honey is better than ordinary pure honey.

What is the difference between honey harvested in different seasons

Spring honey: generally refers to the honey harvested from late February to late May. This season is full of flowers, spring honey covers a lot of flower species of honey, typical of acacia honey, purple daffodil honey, rapeseed honey, citrus honey, mixed flowers honey, and so on. Spring honey is characterized by colorful, from white to yellow, fragrant, sweet, good quality.

Summer honey: generally refers to the honey harvested from June to late September, also known as ambrosia honey, many trees or shrubs choose to blossom in the summer, thorn honey is a representative of the summer honey, there are many other honey, such as sunflower honey, melon honey. The color of honey produced in summer is mostly light yellow, dark yellow to amber, thick, delicate, fragrant and sweet.

Autumn honey: generally refers to the honey harvested from late September to early December, there are some flowers open in the fall, such as cotton, buckwheat and some shrubs, etc., the five times the nectar is a typical autumn honey, autumn honey is generally dark amber to dark brown, slightly fragrant, slightly acidic flavor, sticky texture, opaque.

Winter honey: honey harvested in winter, mostly produced in the south, such as Eurycoma honey, duck-footed wood honey. Winter honey is less in quantity, often water-white or white, good quality, of which the wild cinnamon honey (Eurycoma japonica honey) is the best, known as the king of honey. Generally speaking, the winter production of honey honey concentration than other seasons of the honey harvested to be higher, the color of the hundred flowers honey is also darker than the other seasons, contains more minerals, nutrients more complete, the quality is also better.