Before buying healing bee nectar, you should check the honey, whether it is natural or not, at home. Fortunately, having tasted real honey only once, it is quite difficult to make a mistake with the choice in the future: this taste will be remembered for a very long time.
To check honey, natural or not, at home, buy 100-200 grams of the product in a transparent jar for a start and start studying 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 hue and be opaque.
To test honey for naturalness, look at its condition at the top of the jar. There should be a small clump of brownish or yellowish brown granules here. This is bee propolis, which speaks of the completely natural origin of the product. If possible, use a magnifying glass and examine the entire surface of the honey. At a normal consistency, you will be able to notice smaller and darker particles that represent bee pollen.
If the appearance of honey does not make you suspicious, gently taste it by holding it in your mouth for a while. Natural honey has a sweet-creamy and very pleasant taste, as well as a corresponding aroma. A refined product has a sugary, often oversweetened taste and a pungent smell, indicating that the honey is stale, fermented or diluted. The presence of sugar particles and persistent caramel taste indicate that the product is melted.
Don't buy honey that is too runny, even if you like its taste. Such a product will ferment quickly during storage. Good and natural honey at home at a temperature of about 20 degrees Celsius should be "wrapped" around a spoon with threads, slowly flowing down. The presence of bubbles on the surface is not allowed. They say that the product is most likely fermented.
The need to determine whether honey is natural or not is not always required at home. For example, the probability of purchasing 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 likelihood of encountering an unnatural product in supermarkets: canned honey can contain a large number of additives that increase its shelf life, but worsen its taste and reduce the benefits for the body.
