It is good stuff more and more people love, but now it is easy to buy if you are not careful, the so-called fake honey is usually adulterated with water, adulterated with sucrose, caramel or starchy substances, etc..
Here come a few easy and quick ways to identify fake honey.
Identification of fake honey adulterated with starch.
Take 2 grams of honey into a test tube, add 20 ml of distilled water, heat and boil with an alcohol lamp, add 2 drops of iodine after cooling, such as the appearance of blue or green, indicating that the honey is adulterated with starch.
Identification of fake honey adulterated with caramel honey.
Take 1 part of the honey, add 4 parts of water, stir well, gradually add alcohol, such as the appearance of white flocculent, indicating that the honey adulterated with caramel; or only appear cloudy and no white flocculent, indicating that the honey is not adulterated with caramel.
The fake honey adulterated with cane sugar honey identification.
Honey mixed with white sugar or brown sugar and other cane sugar taste sweet, but the aftertaste is short and the fragrance is poor. From the consistency, use a chopstick inserted into the honey and raised vertically, pure honey in the downward flow of slow, viscous, hanging silk; cane sugar adulterated honey downward flow of fast, viscous small, not hanging silk. The honey that is adulterated with cane sugar has a hard plate, and it is not easy to twist the crystalline grains with your fingers, and there is a gritty feeling, and the crystalline grains will not dissolve easily in your mouth; while the pure grains are softer, and there is no gritty feeling when you rub the crystalline grains with your hands, and the crystalline grains dissolve quickly in your mouth.
The fake honey that is adulterated with water is identified.
The biggest feature of adulterated honey is thin, so it is easy to scoop up or pour down with a spoon; if you stir with a glass rod or wooden stick, feel very little resistance, insert the glass rod or wooden stick into the honey and quickly lift it, the stick adheres to very little honey, the honey on the stick flows downward at a faster rate, and the drops do not retract upward.
Simple test method.
Take 1 part of honey, put it into a glass, add 5-6 parts of cold boiling water, dilute and stir, leave it for 1 day and observe, if there are precipitates, it proves to be fake honey. Another method is to take a small amount of honey, placed on a clean slide, heated by fire, to stop heating after the evaporation of water, natural cooling and observation, the residual material soft, it is pure honey; if the residual material is hard and brittle, it shows that the honey is mixed with cane sugar.
