It is quite easy to fake honey by adding diluted sugar to it, while, perhaps, only a very experienced beekeeper will be able to distinguish a fake only by taste. But there are some simple ways to help you when choosing honey.
It is necessary
- - White bread;
- - bowl;
- - honey;
- - rough paper;
- - saucer;
- - wooden stick.
Instructions
Step 1
First, buy honey from 2-3 regular sellers of 100 grams per sample and check its quality. Cut off a slice of white bread, pour some honey into a separate bowl (if the test is carried out in the main container where honey is stored, then crumbs will remain in it). Dip a slice of bread in honey for 10 minutes, remove, put on a saucer. Look what happens to a piece of bread: if it softens, then you have sugar syrup in front of you, not honey; if it hardens, then the honey is of high quality.
Step 2
Brew a weak, weak tea. Pour tea through a strainer into a glass cup so that no tea leaves float in the cup. Put a little 1-2 teaspoons of honey in tea, stir, see if there is a sediment - if there is, then honey with added sugar; if the tea has darkened, but there is no sediment, then the honey is real.
Step 3
Examine the honey right in the container at the time of purchase: if the honey is cloudy, with sediment, then sugar, starch or something similar is added to it; real honey, as a rule, is transparent (but acacia honey can be unclear - this is normal), no matter what color it is.
Smell the honey: if sugar is added to it, then it will not have a scent.
Step 4
Rub a little honey between your fingers: if the structure is rough to the touch and lumps are left on the fingertips, then sugar is added to the honey; if honey is easily rubbed and absorbed into the skin, then it is real.
Step 5
Take a sheet of rough paper that absorbs moisture well and place it on a saucer. Dip a wooden stick in the honey, drop the honey on the paper and watch what happens: if the honey spreads on the paper or seeps through it, then sugar syrup has been added to it.
Step 6
Note that over time, as honey becomes old, it becomes cloudy and thickened. Look carefully what color the honey is: if it is unnaturally white, then it is the so-called "sugar honey"; the bees that made it were not released into the fields to collect nectar, but were simply fed sugar.
Step 7
Check the consistency of honey: immerse the spoon in a container with honey, slowly pull it out - the honey should "drain" in thick ribbons, form "hills" on the surface.
