Tongue is the best teacher! I support this statement, provided that you have deep skill. Few people who drink true honey all the year round can drink all the true and false honey. Real honey is sour, bitter, sweet and greasy. This is a very one-sided question. People who don't like sweetness will say that honey is too sweet, and some people say that honey is too greasy, so it is careless to be too sweet and too greasy. This is actually one-sided! The following are some contents to distinguish true and false honey, which can be used for reference.
If you want to distinguish between true and false honey, you must first know how fake honey is made!
Adulteration method to identify true and false honey-honey: 1. Boil white sugar with water and sulfuric acid, and differentiate disaccharide molecules of white sugar into monosaccharides by acidolysis to fake honey. 2. Fake honey made of maltose, syrup, etc. 3. Add color thickener with syrup.
4, using food crops to process syrup (also known as fructose corn syrup) as honey. In order to confuse the fake with the real, counterfeiters also added chemicals such as thickener, sweetener, preservative, essence and pigment to the fake honey.
Distinguish between true and false honey-a small way to distinguish;
There are various methods of counterfeiting in the market now, and it is difficult to identify the authenticity of honey by only one method. The following methods can eliminate a lot of fake honey, hoping to help you choose honey. 1, if you want to distinguish between true and false honey, you must first know what honey you have. Honey from different flowers has different color, fragrance, taste and origin. Usually, the honey of any plant will have the floral fragrance of this plant, and naturally it will not flush the nose. The difficulty of crystallization of pure honey is also different. For example, Vitex negundo linden honey rape honey is very easy to crystallize, and a whole bottle can crystallize. Sophora japonica honey and jujube honey can only crystallize. Secondly, pure honey will have a slightly spicy throat when eaten dry, which is the characteristic of all bee products.
2. Honey mixed with flour, starch or corn flour is turbid in color and not sweet enough in taste. Put a small amount of honey into a cup, add a proper amount of water to boil, drop a few drops of yellow wine after cooling, and shake well. If the solution turns blue or red or purple, it means that the honey is mixed with starch. 3. Insert the red-hot wire into the honey. If it is good honey, you can see the smoke coming out after plugging in the wire, but you can also smell the fragrance of fruits and flowers. If mixed with sugar, it will smell burnt. 4. Take one part of honey, two parts of cold boiled water and four parts of 95% alcohol, mix them evenly and leave them for one day and night. If there is no impurity deposition, the quality is pure. 5. Honey can be pulled into long filaments when provoked with chopsticks, and the top grade is the one that will shrink into a ball when the filament is broken (mainly depending on whether it will rebound after being broken for four times, fake honey can also be pulled, but pure honey filaments are usually thin and will rebound). The drawing method only uses liquid honey. If honey is crystalline, it may be semi-crystalline. It should not be considered that crystalline honey is solid and cannot be drawn, and semi-crystalline and semi-liquid honey has no viscosity and cannot be drawn.
6. After the real honey shakes in summer, there will be many bubbles in the honey, so the honey will simply rise from the honey bottle. However, after 1-2 days, the bubbles will disappear automatically, but as soon as the honey bottle is opened, gas will rush out! This is mainly because pure natural honey is rich in germicide hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide can easily differentiate into oxygen at high temperature! Then let the appearance of honey have a layer of white bubbles! There are many active enzymes in honey. When the temperature is high, active enzymes will differentiate and produce some gases. Winter is also quite simple. Put honey in hot water of 30-40 degrees for 4-5 minutes, then stir honey 10-20 times with chopsticks, and then let it stand. Pure natural honey will have bubbles on its appearance.
Ways to distinguish fake honey: First, look at the color with your heart: the color of real honey is transparent or translucent. Real honey is rich in protein, biological enzymes, minerals, pollen and other ingredients, so it looks not very clear, white, light yellow or amber, and light color is preferred. Fake honey is boiled with white sugar or filled with syrup, so the color is bright, usually light yellow or dark yellow; Look at the shape: true honey is a viscous liquid, which stirs up visible flexible filaments and flows continuously. False honey has suspended matter or precipitation, and its viscosity is small. When it is stirred, it falls drop by drop and then is cut off. After exposure, true honey becomes weak, while false honey remains unchanged or becomes thick. If honey is extremely thin and simple, it may be mixed with water; Look at the label: some honey products have ingredients such as sucrose, white sugar and fructose syrup in the ingredient list, but pure honey products are not allowed to participate in these substances. Second, smell it carefully. The real honey smells pure and natural, with a faint floral fragrance. The fake honey smells like nose washing, or it is a fruity candy. Third, personally taste the real honey, which is sweet and delicious, sticky, slightly sour and has a long aftertaste. When you taste the crystal block, your teeth will be brittle and it will melt. When the fake honey is carefully tasted, it has a bitter taste or a strange smell of chemicals, but it has no fragrance. The crystal block chews like sugar, and its voice is crisp and loud.
There are five ways to distinguish true and false honey through senses: First, fake honey is boiled with white sugar or filled with syrup, so it looks very bright in Ming Che, while the ingredients in real honey are chaotic, rich in protein, biological enzymes, minerals, vitamins and pollen from nectar plants, so it is not very clear. Second, fake honey has a faint smell of chemicals, which smells like nose-flushing or fruity candy, while real honey smells pure and natural, with rich honey flavor and faint floral fragrance. Third, fake honey tastes sweet, and some carefully taste the strange smell of chemicals, while real honey tastes rich and has a long aftertaste. Fourth, the cost of fake honey is much lower than that of real honey, and fake honey usually captures consumers' desire for cheap in sales strategy, so the quotation of fake honey is usually very low. So cheap honey is likely to be fake. Of course, some honey prices are very high, which is not normal. 5. Look at the labels of the products carefully. The ingredients list of some honey products says sucrose, white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup and so on. This is not allowed by real honey goods. What can only be written on the label of honey? It may be pure honey. It can't be fake honey that steals the concept of honey cream and honey drink.