High-quality honey is a true panacea for all diseases, so it is very important to distinguish between a real and a fake product. This does not require sophisticated equipment, simple improvised means and attention are enough.
It is necessary
- - tea;
- - a thin wooden stick;
- - slice of bread;
- - iodine or vinegar;
- - distilled water.
Instructions
Step 1
Brew a cup of lukewarm tea and add some honey to it. If the honey is real, of high quality, then the tea should darken, but at the same time, no sediment should form at the bottom of the cup.
Step 2
Determine if honey contains starch as follows: dissolve a teaspoon of honey in a cup of distilled water and add 3-4 drops of iodine there. The water will turn blue if there was starch in the honey.
Step 3
Check for chalk in honey: put a couple of drops of vinegar essence in a cup of water and honey solution. Look at honey diluted in water before adding iodine or vinegar there: a solution of fake honey will most likely be cloudy and overflowing, after a short period of time a sediment will appear at the bottom of the glass.
Step 4
Determine if unripe honey has been diluted with sugar syrup. Dip a slice of bread in honey for 8-10 minutes, then remove the bread and place it on a saucer. If honey hardens after 8-10 minutes, then it is of high quality, but if, on the contrary, softens, then this is not honey, but sugar syrup.
Step 5
Dip a thin wooden stick (a skewer will do) in a jar of honey and slowly remove. If honey is real, then it will reach for the stick with a continuous, gradually thinning thread, and when it is interrupted, the thread will descend, forming a tubercle on the surface of the honey. The fake honey will drip from the stick and drip in a splash like liquid glue.
Step 6
Look closely at the honey, you can even come to light - fake honey, which contains sugar, starch and the like, becomes cloudy, a sediment forms at the bottom of the container.
Step 7
Smell the honey. The real one has a fragrant aroma, and the fake one smells almost nothing, except perhaps sweetness, sugar. Rub a little honey between your fingers: a real one will easily pound and be absorbed into the skin. A fake one has a rough structure, lumps will remain on the skin.
Step 8
Heat a piece of stainless steel wire, dip in honey and remove immediately. If the wire remains clean, the honey is real. If a foreign mass sticks to it, then it is fake.
Step 9
Pay attention to the color of honey: if it is unnaturally white, then this is the so-called "sugar honey". The bees who made it were not taken out to collect nectar, but simply fed with sugar.
