The season is approaching when we will buy more honey again. It not only sweetens the drinks, but also helps ease the pain in the throat. But if you are dependent on shops and questionable sources, you may sometimes be unsure if your honey is really bee honey. Was it made in a hive or factory? Sometimes its consistency confuses you, sometimes its smell and sometimes its taste.
From the beehive or from the canola?
On the market, you will come across honeys enhanced with dyes, sugars and flavors. Fake honeys often do not contain any bee honey, but are made from a mixture of syrups and refined sugar.
In addition, high-quality honey undergoes only minimal processing. It contains stains of pollen, royal jelly, propolis and wax. It is not adulterated by the addition of any other ingredients or degraded by the removal of beneficial ones.
Compared to that fake honey it is made by human hands and is composed of corn, beet or cane syrups and sugars. Even fake honey can contain some of the bee honey, but the mentioned syrups are added for more volume.
Water is also used to increase the volumeand, with which the honey is diluted. Furthermore, various flavorings, highlighters, dyes and synthetic additives. Of course, all this is done for the sake of higher profits. Fake honey not only often does not taste like honey, but above all, it does not have its healing effects.
Pasteurized honey from the store
In shops we again meet the so-called commercial honey, which can range from pure honey to fake honey. The difference between commercial and raw honey is that commercial is heated to high temperatures and then filtered. This is done to slow down or stop its crystallization and remove any flecks from it. That is, because of durability and appearance.
Unfortunately, these measures also have negative effects. High temperatures not only destroy the natural properties of honey, but it also kills the nutrients in it. Commercial honey that has been pasteurized and filtered is therefore also just an imitation of raw honey.
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How to tell real honey from fake?
Try any of the 4 ways
Drop a teaspoon of honey into a glass of water. The fake one starts to dissolve while the real one doesn’t even move.
Drizzle some honey room temperature on the finger. If it starts to run, it’s fake. A drop of real honey remains the same unchanged drop.
If you have honey at home for a long time and it is still clear and does not crystallize, it may be an imitation.
Dip the matcha in the honey and then cut it out. A match soaked in raw honey will still start burning with a flame that will burn the honey. But if your honey is fake, it won’t ignite because the product contains too much moisture.
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2023-10-28 11:46:29
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