How to choose honey?

Going to the market or to the store for a useful bee product, you need to know how to choose honey, because it is very easy to face forgery now. Unscrupulous beekeepers interfere with a natural product with various additives to increase its original volume. And often you can find repeatedly heated and over-heated honey 2-3 years ago, or a product created not from nectar, but from sugar syrup. And if knowledgeable people will find out the falsification, the bulk of consumers will believe the seller. This article will tell you how to choose the right honey and buy a really fresh and healthy product.

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How to choose the right honey?- Basic selection criteria for

If at first glance the fake and natural product look identical, then having considered in detail, you can still find significant differences. What should I look for when buying? Consider the main factors with which you can convict a falsified product.

Important! Mature high-quality honey will drain from the spoon with continuous threads, lie down in a jar with a slide.1 liter of such delicacy will pull, at least, 1.5 kg.

Taste characteristics

Natural amber dessert tastes like a tart, viscous and a bit sugary. Depending on its kind, the taste can have its own shade:

• Acacia variety - caramel flavor.
• Buckwheat - sweet astringent.
• Lime - delicate.
• Sunflower - bright and slightly bitter.

But, despite all the varieties of taste, the product should not be sourish.

Important! Nectar based on sugar or fake to taste resembles the usual sugar syrup and does not leave a slight burning aftertaste, characteristic of a quality product.

Aroma

Before choosing honey for a purchase in the market or in a store, it must be sniffed. The natural product has a pronounced specific flavor, even in the thickened state. While sugar syrup differs sour smell or almost does not smell.

Consistency of product

Fresh honey bees have a liquid consistency.

Important! This honey does not foam. Foam, which is on the surface of the product, speaks of its immaturity or fermentation.

After a few months the consistency changes, the honey thickens and the crystallization process begins. This is a natural process for a natural product. Therefore, if in autumn-winter honey is sold in liquid form, it means - it is dissolved by some impurity.

Important! To determine the natural bees dessert, you should rub it between your fingers. It should be easily and evenly rubbed and absorbed into the skin. Counterfeit forms clots, and is felt on the fingers with lumps.

Product color

How to choose the right honey in color? This feature is the most difficult to determine a fake. Sugar honey is usually too light shade, close to white, it often can be noticed turbidity and a small deposit on the bottom. The natural product is always sufficiently transparent and homogeneous.

Even knowing all these signs of a quality product, people often make a purchase of counterfeit. Therefore it is recommended to always buy a small jar first. Thus, the product you can test at home and identify the presence of certain impurities, or confirm its naturalness.

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How to identify impurities in honey at home?

There are several good methods with which you can evaluate the presence of the most common additives in the bee product.

How to detect starch in a bee delicacy?

Simple school experience will help to detect in the composition an unnecessary admixture - starch. Pour a few drops of iodine into the jar with the product. If starch is present in the product, a bluish runoff will appear on the surface of the honey.

Detecting sugar in the bee product

Having lowered a piece of bread into the amber mixture and held it there for ten minutes, you can determine whether sugar is added to the bee delicacy. After taking out the bread, evaluate its condition:

1. If it has hardened, it means that honey is of high quality.
2. If softening - it means the product has a large amount of sugar syrup.

Determine the presence of water in honey

Water will definitely prove itself, if you drip the purchased bees dessert on a piece of paper. A quality product will remain a drop on paper, and the counterfeit will start to leak or form liquid stains.

How to detect chalk in a bee treat?

It is not surprising, but unscrupulous beekeepers often add chalk to the finished product. This is done, first of all, in order to make it more dense and dense. To identify such an admixture, it is necessary to drip the vinegar essence with a delicacy. If a chemical reaction with a hissing goes, it means that the chalk is present in the product.

Important! Another way to check the quality of bee delicacies is to put a hot wire into the jar with an amber mixture. If after taking out on it there are traces - in front of you falsified. Quality honey never sticks to hot metal.

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How to choose honey?- A few more important aspects of

Let's sum up what has been said and sound some more rules that must be strictly followed in order to choose the right honey:

• Amber dessert should be purchased only in trusted stores and with familiar beekeepers whose decency is beyond doubt.
• The lid and packaging of the goods must not be inflated and airtight.
• When buying a product in the store, make sure that the packaging indicates the date and place of collection of honey, ISO 22000: 2005 certification, which indicate the safety of food products, as well as compliance with GOST.

Important! If the label indicates the abbreviation "TU", then it is better not to buy such goods. Carefully read the composition, sugar should not enter there.

• You should not buy honey that has stratification or even a small amount of liquid on the surface. This may indicate either a forgery, or an improper storage of the product.
• Be sure to smell and try the product.
• Discard the purchase of a mixture of light veins or froth. This dessert is inedible.
• If the layers of honey differ in color slightly, this indicates a natural process and the product is usable.
• Edible and the product with small white spots, which simply indicate the release of glucose.
• Bees dessert should not be too low cost.

It has been known for a long time about the beneficial properties of bee treats. But he is curative only in case of using a really natural and high-quality product. Knowing what impurities can be in honey and the criteria for choosing the right dessert, you can easily find 100% natural product from a large number of jars offered in the store and on the market.