Honey is bees' special gold: the sweet, viscous, viscous liquid that bees produce from flower nectar. But few people know that now many dishonest sellers have learned to make artificial honey, which we, buyers, unfortunately, buy under the guise of "real bee gold."
Pick your recipe
You will need
- -slice of bread;
- -paper;
- -indelible pencil;
- - a drop of iodine;
- -water;
- - lighter / matches;
- Acetic essence.
Instruction manual
1
There is no water in real honey. Dip a slice of bread in honey for 8-10 minutes. If the bread has softened, then it is sugar syrup. And if hardened, then this is real, undiluted honey.
2
Smear honey on a piece of paper. Write on a strip of honey with a chemical pencil. The blue inscription indicates that moisture is present in the honey.
3
In a small amount of honey diluted with water, you need to add a drop of iodine. The solution turned blue? Here is honey with starch and flour!
4
Dissolve honey in water in a ratio of 1: 2. If the solution turned out to be cloudy, and after some time a precipitate falls out, then you have before you fake honey.
5
Dissolve honey in water (1: 2). Add some vinegar essence. If the solution hiss, then chalk has been added to the honey.
6
Put a little honey on a blank sheet of paper and set fire to it. Real honey will not melt and burn in a fire. If honey is charred, it is made from sugar. If it becomes liquid, then it was diluted with water.
note
If the seller forbids you to check the quality of honey, then you should not take honey from this seller.
Be careful when using lighters, matches and acetic acid!
Useful advice
When buying honey in a store on the current GOST (standard) for natural honey:
GOST 19792-2001. Natural honey. Technical conditions
To determine with accuracy whether this honey is real or not, use several methods.
If after any method you continue to doubt the quality of this or that honey, then check it in another way.