Many things on the market will be taken advantage of by unscrupulous merchants, who reduce costs through counterfeiting and make profits by selling genuine products. Therefore, when we buy any product, we must not be too cheap and choose more. Identify more carefully. Especially something that goes into your mouth like honey. Most of the fake honey is blended with other cheap materials, or mixed with other things to reduce costs. So what are the materials in fake honey? What materials are fake honey made of?

1. Boil white sugar with water and sulfuric acid, and then decompose the disaccharide molecules of the white sugar into monosaccharides through acidolysis to fake honey.

2. Use caramel, syrup, etc. to dress up as honey. The appearance of fake honey made using this method is very similar to real honey. Inexperienced people can easily be fooled.

3. Use syrup and coloring thickener, or use sugar, water and alum to make syrup.

4. Use food crops to make honey syrup (also called fructose syrup). This special glucose syrup is very similar to natural honey in color and texture, but does not have the floral aroma of natural honey. In order to cover up the truth, counterfeiters will also add thickeners, sweeteners, preservatives, flavors and colorings to fake honey. What is mixed with fake honey

(1) Sucrose: Honey with low sucrose content is difficult to identify from its taste and can easily confuse ordinary consumers. Honey containing large amounts of sucrose will have a strong sucrose flavor when tasted.

(2) Maltose: Pure honey usually crystallizes, but honey with maltose does not crystallize easily. You can use high-concentration alcohol to test. If there is floc, alcohol has been added.

(3) Starch: After mixing with starch, it often settles at the bottom of the barrel and can be taken out directly. It looks like honey crystals at first glance. But when you twist it with your hands, it becomes smooth but not greasy, and tastes tasteless.

(4) Fructose syrup: It is a starch syrup produced through a biochemical reaction with starch-rich products such as rice. It's hard to identify it with simple methods, mainly because this stuff is so cheap. So very cheap honey has to be mixed with this stuff. How to buy honey

First, look at the color.

Regular honey often looks opaque because pure honey won't be as bright as a blend. If it is pure honey, after a long time, some small particles will appear at the bottom of the honey bottle. These particles are ugly, but they're real. This is because natural honey contains a lot of pollen, propolis, minerals and proteins, so some small particles form over time and will settle to the end.

Secondly, look at the bubbles.

Turn the honey upside down and shake it upside down a few times, then turn it upside down. If the bubbles in the honey rise faster, it is a sign that the honey is not pure and should be adulterated. If you turn it upside down, the bubbles will rise very slowly, which means the honey is still relatively pure.

Third, use paper drops.

We prepare a paper towel, take out a chopstick, dip a drop of honey on the paper towel, and then observe the change of honey. Real honey is in the form of water droplets and will not spread; if it is fake, a drop of honey on the paper will spread out immediately.