Of course, the quality of honey today is significantly different from the honey that was in the old days. In our time, the surrounding nature and air are polluted. Therefore, you need to buy honey from a familiar beekeeper, so that you probably know in which zone the apiary is located. If you buy honey at a market or fair, be sure to ask for a quality certificate, because you risk buying not medicinal honey, but quite the opposite.
It is necessary
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- mechanical pencil,
- iodine,
- microscope.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, you need to smell the honey, it should have a pleasant floral aroma, fake honey with the addition of sugar has practically no smell.
Step 2
Take a mechanical pencil (which, when moistened, paints it purple) and dip it in a drop of honey. If the honey is even a little colored, it means that it is diluted with water. Real honey should not be colored.
Step 3
The honey should not contain bees or wax pieces. It's very easy to check: dilute ½ teaspoon of honey in a glass of warm water. If you notice dark particles that have sank down or, on the contrary, have surfaced, it means that the honey is contaminated.
Step 4
Careless beekeepers often add starch and water to honey, this can be checked with iodine. Take a little honey from the bottom of the jar and dilute with distilled water (a little), add a drop of iodine to this solution. If the solution turns blue, it means that the honey contains starch, so it is better not to buy such honey.
Step 5
You can see a small smear of honey through a microscope, crystals of real honey are needle-shaped or star-shaped. In fake honey, the crystals have regular geometric shapes or lumpy shapes.
Step 6
Take a spoonful of liquid honey, pick up and drain the honey from the spoon. Real honey will be drawn in a continuous stream, and honey diluted with sugar syrup will drip.
