give natural untreated honey to normal bees and they use it and stay alive. Feed industrial honey or just treated honey to natural bees and they die. It is very simple. Thereofre I just eat honey from a beekeeper I know very well...
Differences to Identify 100% Real (Pure) and Fake Honey?
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1. Honey Thickness:
Pure Honey: It is Fairly thick and takes the time to move from one side of the jar to the other.
Fake Honey: Not dense at all. Fake honey is very light and runny.
2. The stickiness of Honey:
Pure Honey: It tends not to be sticky if rubbed between fingers.
Fake Honey: It is fairly sticky because of the high percentage of added sweeteners and additives.
3. Taste of the Honey:
Pure Honey: The taste vanishes 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: Taste will remain for a little longer because of added sugars and sweeteners.
4. Honey Smell/Aroma:
Pure Honey: If experienced, you can actually smell aromas Mild scent, probably the actual smell of the flowers from which the nectar was collected.
Fake Honey: There is mostly none or just industrial sour smell.
5. When Heating honey:
Pure Honey: If you heat the pure honey, it caramelizes quickly and does not make foam.
Fake Honey: Never caramelizes and forms the foam and becomes bubbly because of the added moisture, sugars and water.
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6. Dissolving Method:
Pure Honey: Doesn’t get dissolved in water, but will lump and settle at 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: Stays incoherent and gets dissolved water right away. Dissolves in methylated spirits while making the solution milky
Natural honey does not mix easily in water. Therefore to test the purity, take a teaspoon of the honey and put in a glass full of water. Fake honey will dissolve in the water while natural honey will settle right at the bottom of the glass as lumps.
Pure Honey: It is Fairly thick and takes the time to move from one side of the jar to the other.
Fake Honey: Not dense at all. Fake honey is very light and runny.
2. The stickiness of Honey:
Pure Honey: It tends not to be sticky if rubbed between fingers.
Fake Honey: It is fairly sticky because of the high percentage of added sweeteners and additives.
3. Taste of the Honey:
Pure Honey: The taste vanishes 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: Taste will remain for a little longer because of added sugars and sweeteners.
4. Honey Smell/Aroma:
Pure Honey: If experienced, you can actually smell aromas Mild scent, probably the actual smell of the flowers from which the nectar was collected.
Fake Honey: There is mostly none or just industrial sour smell.
5. When Heating honey:
Pure Honey: If you heat the pure honey, it caramelizes quickly and does not make foam.
Fake Honey: Never caramelizes and forms the foam and becomes bubbly because of the added moisture, sugars and water..
6. Dissolving Method:
Pure Honey: Doesn’t get dissolved in water, but will lump and settle at 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: Stays incoherent and gets dissolved water right away. Dissolves in methylated spirits while making the solution milky.
7. Flame Test:
Pure Honey: If we immerse a matchstick in the honey, it lights easily with no hesitations.
Fake Honey: Matchstick does not light easily due to the presence of moisture.
8. Bread Test:
Pure Honey: When spreading on a slice of bread, the slice hardens within few minutes.
Fake Honey: It gets the bread wet due to moisture content.
9. Absorption Test:
Pure Honey: Few drops poured on blotting paper do not get absorbed. When poured on a piece of white cloth, it won’t leave stains.
Fake Honey: Gets absorbed into blotting paper. Leaves stains on a white piece of cloth.
10. Impurities:
Pure Honey: Presence of impurities: dirty-looking particles, pollen and bee body parties.
Fake Honey: Absence of impurities.
11. Egg yolk Test:
Pure Honey: When poured into a container with yolk alone and the mixture stirred together the yolk appears like it is cooked.
1- Taste the honey, if it tastes more than 3 minutes and did not dissolve it is not original, and if the taste disappeared directly indicates the quality.
2 - honey can be examined by placing a tablespoon of it in a glass of water, and in the case of melting it is abnormal, but if it is normal must remain firm and precipitate at the bottom of the glass of water.
3 - Bring a candle and remove the wick and then dip the wick in honey, try to ignite the wick from the side of the honey, if caught be natural, either if you resist the ignition, it means that the honey is not normal and the presence of water in it prevents the wick from ignition.
4 - Place a point of honey on a certain wound, if it hurts, it indicates the artificialness of honey, and if not affected, it is normal.
5 - Put a drop of honey on a paper, if a liquid spot formed around it is adulterated, and if it remains in place, it is genuine.
6 - Spoon the honey spoon down, if the honey descended from it in the form of a thin thread connected is genuine, and if cut it is artificial.
7- Put the honey in the refrigerator, if it freezes, it is artificial.
8 - Put a spoonful of honey on the Nerali that the effervescence, if you change the color of the honey or smell the fire is adulterated.
9 - Put a point of tincture of iodine on a spoon filled with honey, if the spread of violet color in all honey was honey adulterated .. If fixed point in place did not spread in honey was normal.
10 - Fill half of the cup with water and put honey over it ... If it fell to the bottom of the cup and settled in it did not mix with water was honey natural and vice versa in case of fraud.
Under the microscope genuine honey presents different kind of pollen grains depending on the flowers the honey bees have been visiting (mountain flowers, forest, fields etc.) Mixing honeys from different continents can be spotted by the characteristics of the pollen grains present in the honey (shape, size colour). A falsified, artificial honey do not contain any pollen grain. (Old method already used in 1950).
Differentiation between natural and fake honey could be done by Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS). Differences in stable carbon isotope ratio (13C/12C=‰) between honey and its protein fraction (EA/IRMS) give a qualitative and quantitative indication of honey adulteration. The analysis of sugars in honey by LC-IRMS results in accurate, precise and fast results because of the absence of derivatization and the reduced number of preparation steps. For details, see some documenets listed bellow:
1- Tasting honey, if the taste remains for more than 3 minutes and it does not dissolve, then it is not original, and if the taste disappears immediately, it indicates its quality.
2- Honey can be examined by placing a tablespoon of it in a cup of water. If it melts, it is not normal. If it is natural, it must remain firm and settle in the bottom of the cup of water.
1- Place a drop of iodine tincture on a spoonful of honey. If the violet color spread in all honey, honey would be adulterated. If the point was fixed in its place and it did not spread in honey, it was natural.
2-Fill half of the cup with water and put honey on top of it ... If it fell to the bottom of the cup and settled in it and did not mix with water, honey was natural and vice versa if it was cheated.
By pouring a quantity of honey on a paper, a napkin, or a piece of fabric. If the paper absorbs the honey, this indicates that the honey is not original. If the paper does not absorb honey, it is natural honey.
A pure hony have the viscosity about 18% of water so its thick but this not good indicator for its originality the fake hony can also be concentrated to have the same viscosity so they also not be soulable in water ,the second test which flame also most fake hony can pass this test because if it have less water can act as pure hony so this is difficult to decided the hony is pure or not by this simple test the decision must take after analysis by lab.to known the ratio of glucose : lactose: scurose which is the mosut suger found in pure hony and if this ratio is change or not fit the hony is fake
Fake or adulterated honey will dissolve in the water while pure honey which has a more dense texture will settle right at the bottom of the glass as lumps. The same is the case with blotting paper or a white cloth. If you pour pure honey on the two, it will not get absorbed or leave stains.
Fake or adulterated honey will dissolve in the water while pure honey which has a more dense texture will settle right at the bottom of the glass as lumps. The same is the case with blotting paper or a white cloth. If you pour pure honey on the two, it will not get absorbed or leave stains.
Yes there are differences between natural (raw) and fake honey. Natural honey is not dissolved in water but fake honey is easily dissolved in water. Raw honey contain pollen after processing(High heat). Fake honey contain sugar such as fructose. The difference between them depend on chemical analysis for each type.