What are the methods to distinguish true and false honey? How to tell true and false honey?

Many people have honey at home, and honey has many functions. Most people like to drink it directly with honey water. Honey has the function of moistening intestines. If you have constipation, you can drink some. Of course, honey is also rich in nutrients, but some honey on the market is fake. What are the methods to distinguish true and false honey? How to tell true and false honey? .

1, how to distinguish true and false honey?

1. Look at the gloss, look at the color.

Real honey is thick, sticky, bright and moist; Fake honey is turbid. Especially after stirring with chopsticks, true honey has good light transmittance and uniform color; Fake honey is not only turbid, but also contains impurities. Different honey has different colors, so you should know about it before buying honey. Sophora japonica honey is light amber; Vitex negundo is amber, but the color is darker than Sophora japonica. Baihua honey is mostly yellow and red, and the color is not fixed; The color of jujube nectar is also dark. It is worth mentioning that jujube honey is not easy to crystallize compared with other honey.

2. Look at the crystallization and rub it.

If you have a refrigerator at home, you can also put honey in the refrigerator for a while before taking it out. Honey will become solid when it is placed in an environment of 4~ 14 degrees Celsius for a period of time. The crystal of true honey is soft and has poor transparency, and one eye is pricked; Fake honey can't be tied, and some crystals of fake honey will make a crisp sound when bitten.

Knead this crystal in your hand. The broken crystal of true honey is delicate and has no sense of gravel. False honey is not easy to form crystals, and some false honey will precipitate, which is harder than crystallization and not easy to crush.

3. Smell the smell, is it fragrant?

Real honey gives off a faint sweetness, which can be smelled when opened, and this taste can last for a long time. On the other hand, fake honey smells unnatural or has no fragrance at all.

4. Try it, ok.

True honey is sweet and moist, and the fragrance of flowers reverberates in the mouth for a long time; Fake honey can't taste the fragrance of flowers, but fake honey cooked with sugar can taste the taste of sugar. If there are crystals in real honey, the crystals will dissolve quickly after entering the mouth; On the other hand, fake honey is not easy to melt. Some fake honey still has a taste in the mouth and irritates the throat.

5. A chopstick, a piece of paper, and inferior honey show their true colors.

Although some honey is real, it is mixed with some things, such as sugar and starch. And good honey can't add anything except honey. How to distinguish pure honey from inferior honey mixed with something? The method is simple, a chopstick and a blank sheet of paper.

First of all, talk about the white paper detection method. Drop honey on white paper. Pure honey will not seep out, but honey mixed with water will seep out slowly. Pure honey, because of its thick texture, will form beads when it falls on paper; Inferior honey won't form, and it will spread easily.

Let's talk about the chopsticks detection method first. Insert a clean chopstick into the honey and lift it straight. Pure honey will slowly flow down the chopsticks, and thick silk can be pulled out. If these wires break, they will shrink into a ball. If you feel great resistance when mixing with chopsticks in honey, you should be careful, which means that the honey you bought is probably mixed with glucose or maltose.

2. How to eat honey

Take it with cold boiled water first, so that the vitamin C oxidase in honey will not be destroyed. Taking it in summer also has the effects of relieving summer heat, detoxifying and stopping diarrhea.

Second, taking it with warm boiled water (below 40 degrees) can play the role of tonifying the middle warmer and benefiting qi, and will not destroy various nutrients. But in daily life, many people are used to taking honey with high temperature or boiling water, which is unscientific. Because doing so will destroy similar substances and some vitamins in honey, thus producing excessive hydroxymethyl glycolaldehyde, which will greatly destroy the nutritional components of honey.

In addition, taking honey with hot boiled water will inactivate the enzymes in honey, darken the color, volatilize the fragrance, change the taste and turn sour. This is also the main reason why pure natural honey is superior to processed honey. Because the first step of honey processing is to distill the low-concentration pure honey bought from bee factory at high temperature to make its concentration reach 42 degrees and 43 degrees. However, the damage of high temperature to the nutrients in honey is enormous.

3. Why is there fake honey?

Global climate change has greatly reduced honey production.

In recent years, due to global weather factors and the abuse of pesticides and herbicides, honey production has dropped sharply, leading to the shortage of honey in the market, and some manufacturers have mixed real and fake honey. At present, carbon isotope detection method is used to determine whether honey is mixed.

Isotopes, such as fingerprints, true and false honey.

If it is real honey, it contains a small amount of protein, so it has a certain range of carbon isotope ratio. If it is mixed with sucrose or corn syrup, its carbon isotope ratio will deviate from the original value. From the carbon isotope ratio of protein in honey and honey, the "sugar doping rate" can be calculated. Carbon isotope ratio is like fingerprint test, and one test can identify the real person.