“Real honey no cheap, expensive honey may not be pure also, but if is pure honey then sure will be expensive”。
Real Honey v. Fake Honey - How can you tell the difference?
Natural, organic honey from your local beekeeper is incredibly healthy for you. But is that what you're buying at the grocery store? Many "honey" producers add artificial sweeteners or corn syrup to make their profit margin a little bit bigger at your expense. Know the difference! Trigona Honey is nothing but pure, natural honey straight from the bees to your table. Don't settle for anything less!
So,what is real honey? Real honey should not come from a factory but from bees. The most common references to real and pure honey are organic and natural honey. By just looking packaged honey on the shelves, it is almost impossible to tell whether the honey is fake or real. Pure honey is the natural product made by honey bees. What is fake honey? Also referred to as impure, artificial or adulterated, fake honey is ‘honey’ that has been added glucose, dextrose, molasses, sugar syrup, invert sugar, flour, corn syrup, starch, or any other similar product, other than floral nectar. How can you tell the difference? By examining the physical qualities of honey, it is very easy to know whether this is pure or impure honey. We are looking at simple ways by which an average day to day consumer can quickly tell if the honey he/she buying is fake or pure. Below are some of the main differences in properties that will help you distinguish between the real and unreal thing. It is very easy to notice the impurities although this may require some practice first. Stickiness Pure Honey: It tends not to be sticky if you rub it between your fingers Fake Honey: It is fairly sticky because of the high percentage of added sweeteners and additives Thickness Pure Honey: It is very thick and takes a good of time to move from one side of the jar/container to the other Fake Honey: It is very lightish and moves really quickly inside the jar. Not dense at all. Taste Pure Honey: Contrary to a common belief, the taste will go away very soon in a matter of minutes. If you heat and cool pure honey, you will alter the taste and kill all healing and nutritional values Fake Honey: Extensively sweet taste remains because of added sugars and sweeteners Smell/Aroma Pure Honey: If experienced, you can actually smell aromas of certain flowers and wild grasses. Fake Honey: There is mostly none or just industrial sour smell. Heating Pure Honey: Upon heating, pure honey caramelizes quickly but does not make foam. Fake Honey: Forms foam and becomes bubbly because of the added moisture, sugars and water. Dissolving Method Pure Honey: Doesn't get dissolved in water immediately and lumps and the bottom. Gets diluted when stirred for a while. Mixing in equal amounts of honey and methylated spirits, honey settles at the bottom. Fake Honey: Gets dissolved very fast when added to water because of additives. Dissolves in methylated spirits while making the solution milky. Flame Test Pure Honey: After immersing a matchstick in the honey it lights easily with no hesitations. Fake Honey: Matchstick will not light easily because of presence of moisture.
How do you make sure the honey you buy is actual honey?
Bluntly put, you don’t know and you really cannot know. Counterfeiting honey is a big business these days—worldwide—and there are many bottles on the shelves all over the world that contain adulterated honey (honey mixed with sugar syrup extenders) or “fake honey (predominantly high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) with either a little honey mixed to fool test machines or honey flavorings added to fool human tasters).
You cannot tell by looking and NONE of those quick tests you read about on the Internet (even on Quora) are reliable or valid tests. Fake honey, especially HFCS, will pass the tests and many types of authentic honey will fail they’re bogus tests. Only laboratory analysis can truly authenticate. If you have a good nose and tongue and can A/B test between a sample of fake and a sample of real, you might be able to tell, but even here, adding a little real honey to the fake fools almost everyone. There are places labs that test honey for authenticity, but many are overwhelmed with work from big companies trying to avoid legal issues and seeking to protect their brand values. Lots more “honey” is never tested and suppliers and/or wholesaler vendors can easily misrepresent provenance (in other words, people lie).
You can only trust the label and use common sense. When a bottle of honey produced by an apiary in your neighborhood costs USD$7-$8 and a commercial bottler in your local area sells the same amount for USD$5-$6, you can easily believe the difference in price between the two bottles is a matter of scale. When you go to the grocery and the same size bottle of crystal clear honey is USD$1.79 and it comes from a source outside your country and is bottled by a large generic plant in your country or the country next door…well… let’s just say that the notion of “scale” just does not explain that dramatic reduction in price.
One used to be able to trust big name brands, but even some of these famous and long-standing brands (world wide) have been shown to have sold adulterated products without noting the additives on the label (as is required by the FDA in the USA).
Some honey producers submit their honey to sampling and analysis with every batch. They may have an authentication label. These authentication systems are more trustworthy than merely taking Walmart’s word for it. As many others have suggested, try purchasing your honey from local apiaries or individual beekeepers if possible. That is the most likely way to consistently get real honey these days.
Be wary, however, of some vendors—particularly those who sell their own label of “local” honey at city farm markets but are not themselves beekeepers (or farmers). Some have 5-gallon buckets or 55-gallon drums of HFCS back at home where they bottle their “honey” to sell to the unwary who think everything at the local farm market is “whole,” natural,” & “organic.”
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