Before buying a healing bee nectar, you should check the honey, whether it is natural or not, at home. Fortunately, having tried real honey only once, it’s quite difficult to make a mistake in the future: this taste will be remembered for a very long time.
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To test honey, natural or not, at home, first get 100-200 grams of the product in a transparent jar and begin to study it. Look at the appearance of honey in a jar at arm's length. Pay attention to what color it is: light yellow, yellow, golden or light brown, and also evaluate the degree of transparency. Natural and fresh honey should have a light yellow tint and be opaque.
To check the honey for naturalness, look at its condition at the top of the jar. There should be a small accumulation of brownish or tan granules. This is bee propolis, talking about the completely natural origin of the product. If possible, use a magnifying glass and examine the entire surface of the honey. With normal consistency, you will notice smaller and darker particles, which are bee pollen.
If the appearance of honey does not make you suspicious, carefully taste it by holding it in your mouth for a while. Natural honey has a sweet and creamy and very pleasant taste, as well as the corresponding aroma. The refined product has a cloying, often over-sweetened taste and a pungent odor, indicating that the honey is stale, fermented or diluted. The presence of sugar particles and the persistent taste of caramel indicate that the product is melted.
Do not buy too liquid honey, even if you like its taste. Such a product will quickly ferment during storage. Good and natural honey at home at a temperature of about 20 degrees Celsius should be "wound" on a spoon with threads, slowly flowing down. The presence of bubbles on the surface is not allowed. They say that the product is likely to have fermented.
The need to determine whether or not natural honey is not always required at home. For example, the probability of acquiring a quality product is very high in apiaries and simply in ecologically clean suburban areas. It is dangerous to buy honey near highways, as it can contain a large amount of harmful substances that enter it from the exhaust gases. In addition, there is a high probability of encountering an unnatural product in supermarkets: canned honey may contain a large number of additives that increase its shelf life, but worsen its taste and reduce its benefits to the body.