(1) Look at the color Because honey comes from different sources, the color of honey is different. Generally speaking, dark honey contains more minerals than light honey. If you want to supplement trace elements, you can choose dark honey, such as jujube honey. High-quality honey with delicate texture and bright color; Poor quality honey is usually turbid and has poor gloss.

(2) Pure honey with viscosity is thicker. When a chopstick is inserted and lifted out, you can see that the honey thread is elongated, broken and shrunk into beads; For example, honey has a high water content, and there is no bead shrinkage and wire drawing when it is broken. In addition, you can shake the honey in the glass bottle a few times, and then turn the bottle upside down to see if the honey is hanging on the bottle wall. If there is, the longer the hanging time, the better, which proves that honey has a high viscosity.

(3) Look at impurities. If there are impurities in honey, it will have a certain impact on the quality of honey. So, you can pour honey into a transparent container and watch it in the sun. If you put honey in a glass bottle and look directly at it, you can find the existence of impurities. You should choose clean and impurity-free honey.

(4) According to personal taste, honey tastes different due to different honey sources. Generally speaking, the lighter the color of honey, the more fragrant it tastes. People with light taste can buy Sophora japonica honey, cheese honey and cotton honey; You can buy jujube nectar, linden honey, Amorpha fruticosa honey, etc.

(5) Consumers who buy bottled honey had better go to regular stores to buy honey that has passed the inspection. Pay attention to whether the label has the factory name, address, hygiene license number, production date, shelf life, product quality code and other related contents when purchasing. Don't buy it at random in the stall, so as not to buy adulterated honey. Be sure to buy brand-name bottled honey.

Now there are often some vendors selling bulk honey on the street, filled with all kinds of packaged or unfilled honey, walking around the community, entering the yard, entering the park, and some of them are delivered to the door. They also use various banners such as "bee farm", "pure honey" and "self-produced and self-sold" to defraud consumers' trust. In the current situation that fake and shoddy honey is common, consumers are advised not to buy it and not to spend the money on buying sugar water.

Why don't you buy honey from a street vendor?

First of all, real honey and fake honey are not easy to distinguish, and it is generally difficult to distinguish by appearance. Now counterfeiters are constantly improving their technology, making true and false honey feel more and more like it. Some counterfeiters add additives such as thickeners, spices and pigments after boiling white sugar, or add a small amount of honey, which makes it difficult to find when observing. Even people who have been engaged in honey production and sales for a long time are sometimes deceived, and their authenticity can only be judged by professional inspection institutions. Once, a reporter from CCTV Life Channel did not believe that real honey and fake honey could not be separated. They went to the National Bee Products Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, and asked the inspectors to make a sensory comparison between a bottle of fake honey boiled with white sugar and real honey. To their surprise, they really can't distinguish color, taste and viscosity, so they have to do physical and chemical tests to distinguish it.

Secondly, the honey hygiene indicators promoted by vendors are not up to the requirements. Beijing Bee Products Research Institute analyzed and tested the honey of vendors who walked the streets. 10, 4 samples were adulterated honey, and 3 of 6 honey samples were unqualified, mainly due to the high moisture content of honey and the excessive total number of bacteria.

Thirdly, once consumers find themselves cheated, it is difficult to protect their rights and interests through legal means, because these vendors are mobile and uncertain, and there is no logo, manufacturer, address and telephone number for bulk honey. It is difficult to pursue the problem after it is discovered, and it is also difficult for law enforcement departments to get exact evidence and treatment. In the end, it is the consumers who are unlucky. Therefore, when buying honey, you must choose the products of reputable enterprises, and you must not buy honey promoted by vendors in the streets just for the sake of cheapness and convenience.