Quality honey is a true panacea for all diseases, so it is very important to distinguish between a real and a fake product. For this, you do not need sophisticated equipment, just enough improvised tools and attention.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- - tea;
- - a thin wooden stick;
- - slice of bread;
- - iodine or vinegar;
- - distilled water.
Instruction manual
1
Brew a cup of weak warm tea and add some honey to it. If the honey is real, high-quality, then the tea should darken, but at the same time, sediment should not form at the bottom of the cup.
2
Determine if there is starch in honey as follows: dissolve a teaspoon of honey in a cup of distilled water and drop 3-4 drops of iodine there. The water will turn blue if there was starch in the honey.
3
Check if there is any chalk in the honey: drip a couple of drops of vinegar essence into a cup with a solution of water and honey. Look at the honey diluted in water before adding iodine or vinegar there: the fake honey solution will most likely be cloudy and iridescent overflow, after a short period of time a precipitate will appear at the bottom of the glass.
4
Determine if unripe honey is diluted with sugar syrup. Dip a piece of bread in honey for 8-10 minutes, then remove the bread and put on a saucer. If in 8-10 minutes the honey hardens, then it is of high quality, but if on the contrary it softens, then this is not honey, but sugar syrup.
5
Dip a thin wooden stick in a jar of honey (a skewer will do) and slowly remove. If the honey is real, then it will reach for the stick with a continuous, gradually thinning thread, and interrupted, the thread will drop, forming a tubercle on the surface of the honey. Fake honey will drip from the wand and drip, forming a spray like liquid glue.
6
Take a closer look at honey, you can even take a light - fake honey, which contains sugar, starch and the like becomes cloudy, a precipitate forms at the bottom of the tank.
7
Smell the honey. The real one has a fragrant aroma, while the fake one smells almost nothing, except for sweetness, sugar. Rub a little honey between your fingers: the real one will easily rub and soak into the skin. The fake one has a rough structure, lumps will remain on the skin.
8
Heat a piece of stainless steel wire, dip in honey and immediately remove. If the wire remains clean - honey is real. If a foreign mass sticks to it, then it is fake.
9
Pay attention to the color of honey: if it is unnaturally white, then in front of you is the so-called "sugar honey". The bees that made it were not taken out to collect nectar, but simply fed sugar.
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