In the "Encyclopedia of Beekeeping", published in 1876, but still relevant, information about the falsification of honey was first presented. The book indicates that most often honey is made with the help of sugar, diluting it with water to a syrup state and adding all kinds of aromatic substances. This mass was mixed with real honey - at best. And at worst, they mixed alum with honey, which is harmful to health. And yet, since then, the ways of counterfeiting an extremely useful product have improved. They began to use molasses, sucrose, starch and many other impurities. So how do you tell the difference between natural honey?
It is necessary
- - water,
- - tea,
- - milk,
- - the fire,
- - a thin stick.
Instructions
Step 1
Honey, which has additives in its composition, is unclear. It gives sediment, crystallizes or looks unnaturally whitish (in case the careless beekeepers did not release the bees to collect nectar, but fed them with sugar).
Step 2
Real honey is very fragrant, but not a pungent smell. Honey with additives has no distinct aroma.
Step 3
Real honey stretches after a thin stick lowered into it with a long continuous thread, and when this thread breaks, it will completely descend and turn into a slide, which will soon spread over the surface of the honey and become invisible. Fake honey drips with splashes from the stick or runs off too much.
Step 4
Real honey is easily rubbed between the fingers and even absorbs into the skin like a cream. The fake product is not so delicate. It forms lumps - not pieces of wax, which is permissible, but dense lumps.
Step 5
When mixed in tea, real honey does not sediment, although the drink darkens and becomes cloudy.
Step 6
You can add a drop of honey to a glass of water. If it is real, the drop will reach the bottom without dissolving.
Step 7
If hot milk curdles when honey is added, the product is diluted with sugar syrup.
Step 8
On fire (for example, in a spoon over the stove burner), real honey will not burn with a blue flame, but will slowly char.
