The difference between real honey and fake honey

Observing the color and viscosity of honey, the texture of light white is better, light yellow or amber, and light color is better; The luster is not very bright. Fake honey is bright in color, boiled with white sugar or pretended with syrup, so it looks very clear and bright, usually pale yellow or dark yellow, so dark honey is more nutritious than light honey, but dark honey often contains a strong fragrance, such as buckwheat honey; Light-colored honey generally smells fragrant, such as litchi honey and locust tree honey.

Smell the smell of honey, fresh honey has obvious floral fragrance after opening a bottle, and the smell of old honey is weak. Fake honey made of essence smells bad. A single nectar has its own fragrance, and different nectars can smell unique floral fragrance after brewing.

Extended data

The honey production process is as follows:

Bees suck nectar with their mouthparts, store nectar in the body's honey sac, and wait for the next move after returning to the nest. Bees suck nectar into the body's honey sac, 40 to 60 mg each time, which is basically equivalent to their own weight. After the bees return to their nests, they spit honey to the domestic bees or disperse it into several nests. The water content of honey originally collected by bees is about 80%. Background bees suck honey juice into their stomachs, mix it with invertase, and then spit it out and inhale it.

So hesitant, on the one hand, there are more sucrase in honey, which accelerates the transformation of sucrose; On the other hand, the evaporation surface of honey beads has expanded, and worker bees have been stirring their wings, accelerating the evaporation of water. Vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other nutrients will be gradually enriched.

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