Honey is good for both children and adults. It normalizes the functioning of many internal organs, improves immunity, improves blood composition, is a powerful source of energy, and also protects the human body from premature aging. But only a natural product has all these healing properties. Therefore, it would be good for the "sweet tooth" to know how to distinguish natural honey from a fake.
Instructions
Step 1
Many dishonest honey vendors add not only sugar, but flour, starch and even chalk to it. You can only determine the presence of these unwanted additives by experiment. Dilute a small amount of honey with distilled water and add a drop of iodine to the resulting solution. If the honey turns blue, be sure it contains some starch.
Step 2
You can check the content of chalk in honey with regular vinegar. Drop it on honey diluted with distilled water and observe the reaction of the product. If there is chalk in the honey solution, it should foaming due to the release of carbon dioxide.
Step 3
Dissolve a couple of tablespoons of honey in a glass of water. If in the resulting solution you see a precipitate and any impurities, then the honey is fake.
Step 4
Be sure to check the honey for fermentation. To do this, while stirring the product with a spoon, watch what happens to it. If honey is natural and fresh, not a single bubble will appear on its surface, and its consistency will remain viscous.
Step 5
Remember that natural honey can be liquid only in summer. In autumn, it crystallizes, remaining in this state all winter. Moreover, the thickening of the product should be uniform and not local.
Step 6
Take a small amount of honey and rub it with your fingers. The natural product will retain its stickiness for quite a long time. Fake honey will only stick your fingers together for a couple of minutes.
Step 7
You can distinguish natural honey from fake with the help of stainless steel wire. Heat the cooked tool and dip it in honey. If the wire remains clean - natural honey, and if a sticky foreign mass hangs on it - you have a fake.
Step 8
Check honey for fluidity. Screw it onto a spoon or some not-too-thin stick. The stream of natural honey is uniform and not interrupted.
Step 9
Honey has good quality, which darkens and thickens over time. If after years the product has retained the same consistency as when it was purchased, it is definitely a fake, which means that it does not have any healing properties.
