In autumn and winter, the weather is dry and the temperature changes greatly, which is prone to problems such as sore throat, cough, dry skin, and insufficient gastrointestinal motility. It is recommended that you eat some heat-clearing and moistening food, such as honey, which is very good for nourishing the lungs and relieving cough, clearing heat and moistening dryness. , anti-oxidation and laxative effect.
Honey, as we all know, is honey made from honey, and scientific research and experiments have proved that real mature honey has strong antibacterial ability, is a food that will not spoil, and can be described as a true gift of nature.
Therefore, as long as you buy real honey, you can eat it with confidence, without worrying about additives, and if you store it properly, you don’t have to worry about its deterioration.
So how to distinguish between real and fake honey?
You can use the following 5 methods to identify!
First, look at the gloss and viscosity.
Good honey has a clear color and is as bright as oil. When the honey bottle is shaken, it vibrates very little. After the shaking stops, the honey liquid hanging on the wall of the bottle will slowly flow down.
Inferior products mixed with starch or water will be turbid, poor in transparency, thinner in texture and more fluid.
Second, look at the bubbles in the bottle.
Due to the low water content and sticky texture of high-quality honey, if you turn the sealed honey bottle upside down, you will find that the air sealed at the mouth of the bottle is difficult to float up and foam.
On the contrary, if the bubbles rise quickly after the honey bottle is inverted, it means that it is fake honey mixed with water.
Third, pull "Miss".
Stir some honey with a small spoon or toothpick and stretch it out. Real honey can usually pull out thin and translucent "honey silk", and it will automatically retract and take on a spherical shape after the silk is broken.
The ductility of inferior honey will be relatively poor, and the above phenomenon will not occur.
Fourth, smell and taste.
Pure honey smells with a natural floral aroma, tastes sweet and slightly sour, and tastes soft and delicate.
The smell of fake honey is syrupy, tastes light honey, and has a short aftertaste.
Fifth, twist the particles.
It is generally used to judge crystallized honey. You can pick out a small part of the crystal and rub it with your fingertips. The crystal particles of real honey are fine and will melt completely.
Crystallized honey mixed with sugar has a rough feel and the crystal grains are difficult to knead.
TIPS
Natural honey containing active enzymes cannot be heated above 60 degrees Celsius, otherwise the active enzymes will be denatured and inactivated at high temperatures, destroying the nutrients in it.
