How to choose honey

Honey is a food that everyone likes, and most of the time it is purchased in stores. This kind of honey is a health product, different from honey collected from the wild, but most people cannot judge. In fact, this kind of honey is mostly blended, and the content of real honey is lower, but real honey is also more acceptable. As long as you pay attention to the selection, you will not make a wrong judgment on the product. So how to choose good honey? There are five points to pay attention to when choosing good honey, such as:

(1) Look at the color. The color of honey varies depending on the source of the nectar. Generally speaking, dark honey is richer in minerals than light honey. If you want to supplement trace elements, you can choose dark honey, such as jujube honey. Good quality honey has a fine texture and bright color; poor quality honey is usually turbid and has poor gloss.

(2) Check the viscosity. Pure honey is thicker. Insert a chopstick into it and pull it out. You can see that the honey is stretched out into long threads. When the threads are broken, they shrink back into beads. If the honey has a high water content, there will be no shrinkage into beads or no pulling of threads when the honey is broken. In addition, you can also shake the honey in the glass bottle a few times, then turn the bottle upside down to see if the honey sticks to the wall of the bottle. If it does and the longer it sticks to the wall, the better, which proves that the honey is very viscous.

(3) Check for impurities. If there are impurities in honey, it will have a certain impact on the quality of honey. Therefore, you can pour the honey into a transparent container and look at it under the sunlight. If the honey is in a glass bottle, you can look at it directly to find the presence of impurities. You should choose honey that is clean and free of impurities.

(4) Buy according to personal taste. Honey tastes different due to different nectar sources. Generally speaking, the lighter the color of the honey, the more fragrant it tastes. People who prefer light taste can choose locust flower honey, sesame honey, and cotton honey; those who prefer strong taste can choose jujube flower honey, linden honey, Amorpha stigmata honey, etc.

(5) When purchasing bottled honey, consumers are advised to go to regular stores to purchase honey that has passed inspection. When purchasing, pay attention to whether the label contains relevant information such as factory name, address, health license number, production date, shelf life, product quality code, etc. Do not buy from random stalls to avoid buying adulterated honey. Be sure to buy brand-name bottled honey.

At present, there are often some vendors selling bulk honey on the streets, loaded with filled or unfilled honey of various packages. They go into residential areas, courtyards, and parks, and some even deliver goods to people's homes. They also use various slogans, such as "apiary", "pure honey", "self-production and self-sales", etc., to deceive consumers' trust. Given the current prevalence of counterfeit and shoddy honey, consumers are advised not to buy it and not to waste the money they would have spent on honey on sugar water.

This article will explain to you how to choose good honey. Most people choose honey mainly because of the introduction of acquaintances, but it is somewhat difficult to buy real honey in the city. At this time, you must judge the authenticity according to these five requirements. When choosing, don't blindly look at the price. Analyze according to multiple requirements to determine the content and ingredients of the honey, so as to choose honey that suits your taste and avoid being deceived.