What we buy as honey can be of three types - natural, adulterated or artificial. Real honey is a unique natural miracle. It cures diseases, is used in cooking, promotes weight loss and proper digestion, as an external remedy, it is able to heal wounds, fight inflammation and improve the appearance of the skin. When buying a jar of honey, you want to be sure that this is not a fake.
It is necessary
- Glass with water
- Matches
- Paper
- Bread
- Matchbox
- Libra
Instructions
Step 1
Good honey contains only natural impurities, is collected on time and pavilion and is not very cheap. Artificial honey is not honey at all, but a tinted and flavored syrup. Sugar and water, molasses, flour, and even sawdust are added to falsified honey, which significantly reduces the cost of the product and ruins the beneficial properties of honey.
Step 2
Finger test
Take a drop of honey between your thumb and forefinger and rub them together. Natural honey does not stick, but rather melts, absorbing into the skin.
Step 3
Test on paper
Apply a few drops of honey to plain paper from a notebook or notebook. Good honey does not run on paper and does not absorb over time. Absorbed - water with which the product may have been diluted.
Step 4
Bread test.
Take a slice of bread and spread honey on it. The natural product will solidify on the sandwich, and the diluted or artificial product will begin to be absorbed into the bread.
Step 5
Water test.
Place one tablespoon of honey in a glass of water. Pure honey will settle to the bottom, and fake honey will start to dissolve in water.
Step 6
Fire test.
Take the box of matches. Dip the tip of one match in honey, take it out and light it. Good honey will melt, diluted with water will not burn at all.
Step 7
Heat test.
Heat a spoonful of honey in a water bath. Good honey will spread into a thick syrup, artificial and diluted honey will begin to boil.
Step 8
Correspondence of weight and volume
Honey is heavier than water. A liter jar should hold about one and a half kilograms of honey. Maybe a little less, but not much.
Step 9
The test of time
Good honey crystallizes over time. It may take weeks or months, but it will definitely happen, but the artificial syrup will always remain syrup.
Step 10
Ripe high-quality honey is thick and viscous, from a spoon or over the edge of the jar, it flows slowly, in a continuous stream, forming natural folds, which are smoothed out after a fairly long time.
Step 11
It happens that the seller mixes two types of real honey of different harvests. In this case, the honey is not uniform in color.
