"How to define quality of honey?" - quite reasonable question when choosing this useful product. It is possible to test honey on naturalness. But it must be kept in mind that even laboratories will be powerless to define a forgery if to mix nectar and sugar enterprising businessmen force bees, leaving them among flowers and in the same place placing trays with syrup.
It is better to buy the honey picked from the wild not cultivated plants – it won't contain pesticides. The melliferous herbs which are grown up by the person surely spray, protecting from diseases and wreckers.
Natural honey can be determined by taste and a smell. Luscious, without characteristic flower aroma – it is almost useless.
How to check quality of liquid honey
As the first way to check quality of honey is also the longest (this process can take several minutes – from two and more), it is better to begin, likely, with it. Any tissue or even just toilet paper is required. We apply a honey drop on paper and we leave for observation. For now we define naturalness of honey in two other ways. When after a while we come back to a drop not to paper or a napkin, at the real, quality product we will find honey in its initial state – a drop-bugorochke. If instead of honey ran into a sugar syrup, then just spread spot as though it dripped water will be found.
Upon purchase of liquid honey we pay attention to a stream. We scoop it a spoon and we watch how it flows down. At running off of a stream the hill has to be formed. It means that honey dozrely. At the correct storage it won't begin to ferment, and it can be stored very long. Immature honey at transfusion forms not the hill, and it is rather a pole.
We check quality of honey for sugar further, watching the same stream. When the stream comes to an end, at natural honey it kind of breaks, springs and comes back on a spoon. The last straw always remains on a spoon. If sugar is added, then honey just flows down a continuous stream, doesn't spring, doesn't return to a spoon, on a spoon doesn't remain.
How to check quality of the thickened honey
Fall - a time of dense honey. Will be closer to winter liquid to remain only honey akatsiyevy and chestnut.
The first way is rather simple: we take honey the droplet, we apply on a hand and we rub. It is possible to apply on a back part or on a wrist. Medical it has to be absorbed completely. No lumps should be. The large portion doesn't need to be taken for an experiment, otherwise process will take a lot of time. It is possible to check quality of honey in such a way directly before purchase. The counterfeit product with impurity will roll down white lumps.
It is possible to define naturalness of the thickened honey by water. It is important that water was pure therefore it is better to take bottled from a teapot or from under the crane. This way is simple, but will take more time. In water of room temperature we dissolve a little honey (approximately half a teaspoon). As a product dense, at the bottom can be particles which soon after will be dissolved too. We are interested that on a water surface. If honey with dyes, additives or fragrances, then all loose components emerge. Water shouldn't be hazy. In a case with a buckwheat honey it will be slightly more dark, but after all transparent, and above there are no impurity. Small parts are admissible, but the whitish scurf shouldn't be.
And the third way of check of honey on quality consists in definition of availability of starch in it. For what do add starch to a counterfeited product? For increase in weight and density. Many choose natural honey proceeding from the fact that the liter has to weigh about one and a half kilograms. In honey water it is necessary to drip a little iodine. If there is no starch, then liquid will become brown, in the presence – will turn blue.
Thus it is possible to check quality of honey or in house comfortable conditions, or just before purchase.