Real royal jelly has a sour taste, accompanied by a spicy taste, and it is very strong. The fake royal jelly smells sweet and feels like honey.

2. Taste it

The taste of real royal jelly is very special, with a little bitter feeling, and slightly sour, which is not as sweet as honey. Therefore, when distinguishing between true and false royal jelly, if it tastes sweet without bitter and sour feeling, then it must be mixed with fake royal jelly.

3. Look at the status

Fresh real royal jelly is milky white, close to translucent yellow, and looks thick. If you find that royal jelly is very thin and some bubbles float on the top, it must be fake royal jelly, because real royal jelly will not happen.

4, measuring acid and alkali

When distinguishing between true and false royal jelly, it is better if you have iodine at hand, because iodine can be used to test the authenticity of royal jelly. Because real royal jelly will turn red or yellow when it meets iodine. The fake royal jelly mixed with starch or milk will turn blue after encountering iodine.

5, stir purity

This method also needs to prepare some alkaline liquid, and then pour the royal jelly into the alkaline liquid with a purity of 20%, and stir it fully and evenly. If all of them are mixed, there is no floating object on the top layer, which shows that it is real royal jelly. On the contrary, if it is not fully integrated and there are floating objects, it is fake royal jelly.

Extended data

Royal jelly, also known as royal jelly, queen's milk, queen's milk and queen's milk, is the secretion of the pharyngeal gland of young worker bees who cultivate larvae in bee nests, and it is the food for the larvae who will become queen bees, and also the food for the queen bees for life.

The so-called royal jelly is a kind of milk secreted by young bees after eating pollen. This milk is like the milk of mammals and has great nutritional value and immune function.

Bees (worker bees or male bees) and queen bees are the same in the egg stage. After three days of incubation, they eat royal jelly and grow into bees. After incubation, they eat royal jelly all the time and grow into queen bees. The life span of bees (worker bees or male bees) is one to six months, while queen bees usually live five to seven years because they have been eating royal jelly.

The color of royal jelly changes slightly according to the different pollen consumed by bees, which is generally divided into milky white and yellowish.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-royal jelly