The quality of natural honey can be corrupted by various additives or heating, due to which the product loses useful properties. A full analysis of the composition of honey is carried out in laboratory conditions, but buyers can independently evaluate the quality of the product.
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Honey is not inherent in miseption, it is always transparent, regardless of the shade. An exception is acacia honey, which loses transparency in winter. Plants are influenced on the color of honey, from which bees bring to pollen. Light yellow shade in flower honey, amber - in lime, ash is a transparent, buckwheat dark, with a brown tint. Sugar and starch reduce the transparency of honey, fall out of the sediment.
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Natural honey fragrant, human smell can catch the unusual smell products. It is easy to determine the presence of sugar syrup in honey - the aroma is absent at all, and the taste is similar to the lemonade of poor quality.
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Test honey on viscosity. Honey from a spoon flows solid thread and forms a cone at thenime, which slowly spreads. Fake honey follows the intermittent jet to form a spray.
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You can determine the quality of the product according to its consistency, if you lose between your fingers. Fake honey crumples, real absorbed into the skin. On paper, fake forms stains, paper flows through.
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Some varieties of honey with a special taste. Tobacco, chestnut and yves - with light bitterness, heather tart. Other flavoring shades mean impurities. An acidic taste is a sign of the fermentation started, caramel appears after heat treatment, the strong bitterness occurs in unsatisfactory storage conditions.
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Check for the presence of starch additives. In a glass of warm water, put a spoonful of honey and mix thoroughly. After cooling, add iodine. Appeared blue proves the presence of starch - in natural honey no substance reactive to iodine. Wire of stainless steel will help determine the presence of additives. Heat it, dip into the honey, remove and inspect. Sticky substance remaining on the wire - this is impurity. Pure wire confirms product quality.
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Do not buy honey, which is stored in a metal container. The product retains its useful properties only in glass, clay or ceramic bowl.
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There are simple symptoms fake honey. After the addition of honey water is turbid in the warm tea, but the sediment is not. Quality product quickly crystallize, it happens that thickens after a few days. Exception - acacia honey, which retains a liquid state throughout the winter. If the upper layer liquid of honey, sugar and the lower its immature pumped. This product is not stored for a long time, it is necessary to eat quickly. Unnaturally white - a sign of feeding the bees sugar. Useful elements of forgery not.
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The presence of excessive moisture can be verified without leaving the table. The honey for 10 minutes was placed a piece of bread. If it is dry, a real honey, crumbled - a fake.
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In the market to recognize fake helps indelible pencil. Drip honey on a sheet of paper, and smudge finger swipe pencil surface. The appearance of the blue bar indicates the presence in the product of starch or flour. Light the paper with honey. This honey does not burn and does not melt, does not darken, just burn the paper. If drip honey - bees fed with sugar syrup, became brown - sugar added in the product.
It is best to buy honey from a beekeeper friend, on a plot with bees. Confirmation of its integrity will place hives locations that need to be in a favorable position.
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