The varieties of honey:

Based on the nectar plant is divided into monofloral honey and miscellaneous nectar (hundred flowers honey).

Monofloral honey comes from a variety of monofloral nectar from a particular plant flowering as the main body, such as orange blossom honey, lychee honey, longan honey, wolfsbane honey, citrus honey, loquat honey, rape honey, acacia honey, purple daffodil honey, jujube honey, wild cinnamon (Eurycoma japonica) honey, thorns honey, motherwort honey, wild chrysanthemum honey, and so on.

Mixed-flower honey (100-flower honey) comes from different nectar plants, in which the advantages of a single plant nectar are not obvious, known as mixed-flower honey or 100-flower honey. Because of its diverse nectar sources, the healthcare benefits are all relatively stable and it is often used as a medicine.

This kind of honey is good:

1, the national honey standard (GB14963-2011) stipulates that honey is the collection of plant nectar, secretion or honeydew, and its own secretion combined with the full brewing of natural sweet substances. Therefore, no other ingredients, especially non-honey ingredients, should be added to the honey ingredient list. When purchasing, take a look at the ingredient list on the bottle.

2. Due to lower water content, quality honey is more viscous. Turn the bottle over quickly and observe the flow rate of the honey and how fast the bubbles rise at the bottom. Good quality honey has a high sugar content, is sticky, has a slow flow rate, and has a low water content and no air bubbles.

3, good honey should be moist gelatinous liquid, but not as clear and transparent as water.

4, good honey floral flavor is stronger, some of the quality is not so good honey is not fully mature, active enzymes and other nutrients are not enough, although the color and taste is better, but the taste is a little too sweet, and the floral flavor is not obvious. The fully matured honey is the nectar of the plants that bees will pick back after repeated chewing and processing, adding the enzyme in saliva, after many days of full brewing and become.

Expanded Information:

True and Fake Honey Simple Identification:

Real Honey The color composition is complex, does not look very bright, light yellow or amber, and smell pure, natural, fake honey is mostly bright color, usually light yellow or dark yellow. Real honey is viscous, and flexible filaments are visible when picked up, while fake honey has suspended matter or precipitate, and falls in drops when picked up.

True honey has a light, plant-based, floral aroma, while fake honey smells pungent or fruity.

True honey is sweet and tasty, with a sticky paste and a slight sour taste, crystallized blocks of teeth bite that crispy, fake honey has a bitter taste or chemicals strange taste.

Consumers can insert a chopstick vertically into the honey, lift it up and drop it on a white paper, and observe the shape of the drops on the paper. Pure honey, then the honey on the white paper will be a bead, mixed with water fake honey, drops will spread around.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Honey