Honey has long been famous for its taste and healing properties. It contains more than 50 trace elements. But in order to fully enjoy all the useful properties of this delicacy, you need to know whether we buy real honey. There are many ways to recognize the quality of honey; try a few of them.
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Before you buy honey, smell it. Real honey has a fragrant aroma. But honey with various impurities will not have any aromatic odor. Also, the natural product must be completely uniform in color and consistency.
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You can recognize a falsified product in appearance. It happens that honey is very white - this may indicate that the bees were fed sugar.
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Spoon honey. If it is of high quality, then it will not drip from a spoon, but flow down evenly with a viscous tape.
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Rub the honey between your fingers - it should be quickly absorbed into the skin, while fake honey will form lumps.
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Pour into a clear glass of water. Put one drop of honey in a glass. If the drop does not dissolve, then this honey is real. Otherwise, it means that there are impurities in the product.
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Another way to determine the quality of honey: if you add a spoonful of quality honey to a cup of warm tea, the tea should darken and there will be no precipitate.
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Beekeepers are also advised to check the quality of honey with distilled water and iodine. This method is considered the most perfect. To do this, dilute a little honey in water and drop a little iodine into this solution. If the water turns blue, then starch is definitely added to honey. And if a little vinegar essence is dripped into the same solution and it hiss, then foreign impurities such as chalk or flour are present in the honey. They are added to honey to give density.
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Also, some unscrupulous sellers add water and sugar to honey. To determine their presence, take a thin paper and drip honey. If it spreads over the paper or even seeps through it - this is the wrong honey. In real honey, there is no water.