Learned to forge bee honey for a long time. Earlier, to forge this product, used usual sugar, water, dyes and fragrances. Eventually this list increased. Now invert syrup, treacle, various impurity and chemicals is applied to production of a fake.
Now control of quality of honey - the state responsibility. But some people prefer to buy honey not in shops, and from frequent persons. Of course, such honey is not checked for quality. For this purpose independently to distinguish natural honey from counterfeit, it is necessary to know some cunnings.
How to distinguish natural honey from artificial?
Each buyer has to learn to distinguish the real honey from counterfeited. The natural bee product has to correspond to some obligatory points:
- Resistant aroma at which there are notes of wax, nectar, flower pollen, sweet.
- Natural honey can be stored a long time without change of the consistence.
- The real bee elixir has viscous, rather dense consistence regardless of time of its collecting. When grinding by fingers it is quickly and easily absorbed in skin. At the same time there should not be lumps.
How to distinguish counterfeit honey from natural?
For a start it is necessary to give to a product a visual assessment. A strong indication which explains how to distinguish honey from a fake - liquid consistence which demonstrates that most likely the product was diluted with syrup. Also sugar syrup tells existence in honey of a large number of a white color about cultivation.
Counterfeit honey can give existence of the following indicators:
- non-uniform consistence;
- uneven color;
- existence of a deposit at the bottom of a container.
How still it is possible to distinguish natural honey?
For this purpose there are special methods of definition which efficiency is checked by time.
One of the most available ways the method with a napkin is considered. For its implementation it is necessary to drip honey on a paper surface. If natural honey, then near a drop it should not be formed a damp spot. It is an obvious indicator of quality. The real bee elixir lays down in the form of the hill then it gradually spreads.
The quality product has to be played a long time from a spoon, forming thin long thread.
Natural honey can be reeled up on a spoon kind of. At such actions it will not flow down at once.
The counterfeit or ""lime"" honey has at least one of the listed signs:
- Existence of a sour smell or total absence of aroma.
- Does not cause a feeling of easy burning in a throat.
- Peels off.
- Has rough texture.
How to distinguish a fake of kipreyny honey?
Kipreyny honey turns out as a result of collecting by bees of nectar from a willow-herb flower. Often such product has white color and a specific smell. However, it strongly differs from usual honey and all above-mentioned signs of a low-quality product do not extend to it.
It is possible to reveal counterfeit kipreyny honey on availability of dyes and chemical additives. For definition it is necessary to take two hundred grams of honey and slightly more glass of water. To carefully mix and add several drops of liquid ammonia. The subsequent formation of a deposit demonstrates that honey is forged.
Upon purchase of any grade of honey it is necessary to pay attention to the price. If its market value is obviously underestimated, then most likely a product low-quality. At the low price often of sale expose the sugar syrup tinted by tea leaves and mixed with a small amount of the real honey.
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