How to choose honey when buying in the market or in the store?

Perhaps that honey is very useful for health, perhaps, anyone knows. But not many know how to choose the right honey. We must immediately say that it is desirable to buy a delicacy from a trusted beekeeper who has all the work permits and a certificate for his products. To the choice of honey you are not disappointed, you need to rely on certain rules of choice, they can be divided into several stages. So, how to choose honey when buying?

Theoretical knowledge

To properly buy honey, you need at least a minimum knowledge about this product. Before buying a treat, flick through the directories. Learn how to smell and what should be the appearance of the type of honey that you need. Then, armed with theory, boldly go for a purchase.

Pre-screening of honey of poor quality

So, you have to purchase honey. First of all, being in front of the storefront, carefully inspect the range provided. How is it stored? The container for honey should be made of ceramics, clay or glass, on the extreme case of wood. But not metal. It promotes the process of oxidation of honey and increases the concentration in it of harmful to the body of metals.

How to choose honey when buying? Look carefully at the color of the product. When it is very light, beware of adding a lot of sugar. Do not forget that there are varieties that are naturally pale.

When the smell is dulled, and the taste of honey has caramel notes, it is probably a candied processed product. And when the color is brownish, then you can get pade honey.

How to choose a real honey when buying? The consistency of the product can also say a lot. "Wrong" honey can be either very thick or very fluid. The "right" product (at a temperature of plus 20 ° C) stretches behind the stick for stirring and is wound with threads that break evenly at a certain time.

A product that has an excessively liquid formulation will be poorly stored, as this is an immature treat. Because of the large addition of water, honey does not reach for the wand, but simply flows down.

To determine the product for fermentation, stir the honey with a stick. During this procedure, he begins to foam and produce an acidic odor. With "right" honey this does not happen.

Definition of forgery

How to choose the right honey when buying? The most popular method, which makes it possible to check the delicacy at the time of purchase, is a chemical pencil. How to choose honey when buying on the market using this method? Hook on the wand a little dainties, put a pencil in it. When honey has other additives, the pencil will leave a mark on the area of contact.

When honey is already purchased

In a mug of not strongly brewed tea, add a spoon of purchased treats. The product, which was forged, will turn the tea into a dark shade and will not create a deposit on the bottom of the mug.

The pallor of honey indicates that the owners of the hives do not take the bees for a walk to assemble the pollen. They just feed the bees with sugar. This honey does not contain any useful substances, since they have no place to go, because there is no nectar.

When you think that you have purchased a product that is diluted with syrup, then do a little testing: put a slice of bread in it and leave it. After 7-12 minutes you will get the bread and see the hardened slice when the honey is of good quality. When it is a fake, because of the excessive amount of syrup the slice will get wet.

Another recommendation: try not to purchase this product on road apiaries, or when you are sure that bees are "walking" in an area with poor ecology. Do not forget that the entire pollen crop used by bees for honey production is those microelements that will then be in your body. And if the gasoline vapor settles in the clearing, which is intended to collect pollen, then all harm simultaneously with the benefit will be in any product made of honey.

How to choose honey with perga when buying?

How do you know when you are on the market or in a store that you have a mixture of honey with bee pollen or a mixture of honey and perga, because they seem to be similar?

First you need to pay attention to the color of the composition. Pollen colors in their most light shade (orange, yellow, bright brown, bright gray). But there are some types of product, even a saturated dark color. During the mixing with the liquid composition of honey, the overall shade of the product turns out to be lighter than that of honey with perga. Even during the acquisition of ordinary flower pollen, it is best to purchase a lighter one.

Also it is necessary to pay attention to the aftertaste. Bee pollen, mixed with honey, is like flour without sourness. When the flower pollen from cruciferous flowers - mustard, rape, rape, honey will give a bit of bitterness.

Mixture of honey with perga, as a rule, a rich brown color, the taste is clearly expressed by acid and taste of fermentation, in some cases you can feel a slight bitterness. In the form of lumps (when they were not crushed), you can also determine that the honey was added to the pergu, and not the pollen.

However, it is also necessary to pay attention to the consistency of the mixture. When it is very liquid, it is quite likely that honey and perga are mixed not in a ratio of 1: 1, and "bee bread" in the composition is much less.

What kind of honey is best to buy?

Honey is a natural product with valuable medicinal qualities and excellent taste properties. Different types of honey are advised for the treatment of various diseases, with it you can improve the overall health, and return the appeal to the hair.

Which honey to choose?

What kind of honey? List of most popular:

• The grasses. Amazing product with a powerful anti-inflammatory effect. This honey is advised to consume in order to fill the shortage of multivitamins and minerals, improve the protective properties of the body. This product perfectly copes with inflammatory and cold diseases. Honey can not only be taken orally, but also used for external treatment, to improve the quality of the skin, to make the wound healing process faster.
• May honey from acacia. Choose this product when you are diabetic or allergic, and also when you buy honey for children. This variety is perfectly digested, considered the easiest, has a rich smell and a mild pleasant taste.
• Buckwheat. Characterized by a distinctive dark color and pronounced smell and taste. Enriched with iron, because its intake is advised during anemia and other blood diseases.
• Lime. Very effective remedy for colds, lung and bronchial diseases. It softens cough, improves sputum evacuation, increases protective forces and has a favorable effect on the body as a whole. In addition, it is this variety is one of the most fragrant and delicious. Saturated and soft honey perfectly complement your favorite tea or pastries.
• Sunflower. Magnificently helps with heart diseases, positively affects all systems and organs, increases tone.
• Buckwheat honey with mixed herbs. Harmoniously combines the best properties of two useful types of honey, it speeds up the healing of skin lesions and increases the resistance to diseases.

During the selection of honey you need to focus on personal taste preferences and desired positive properties, and you will get exactly the product that will improve the condition and improve your body.

How to choose honey when buying? What else should I pay attention to?

Appearance

When honey is exposed on the counter in a glass container, then carefully look at the structure of the product. Natural ripe honey throughout the height is uniform. Any stratification, unnatural color, excessive transparency or cloudiness, a difference in density indicate a product of poor quality.

Often mistaken, believing that sugaring is a sign of poor quality of honey. In reality, this is not the case. Honey "ripens", the crystallization of sugar begins, the splitting of glucose, and thus the delicacy thickens.

Determination of aroma and taste

Try the selected product. And we must take into account: the natural delicacy is irritating to the pharynx and oral mucosa. If honey is only sweet, then there is a high probability that additives are present.

Learn to identify immature and mature honey

How to choose the right honey when buying? What other advice should I listen to? Learn to distinguish a mature product from immature. In a mature delicacy, the amount of water is not more than 19%. Do not listen to sellers claiming that honey must be liquid. When it flows like water, then the moisture of this product is above normal. Quality mature honey flows down stream. It is obliged on the surface to create a volumetric pattern that disappears only after a few seconds. When the trickle creates a hole, the product is immature. When the product flows with droplets and while it is transparent, like a tear, then immediately reject this product. Honey has overheated (as a rule, so realize old honey under the guise of freshly picked up).

Sometimes honey flows with drops and with another fake, when it was diluted with sugar syrup. A liter of natural ripe product should have a weight of 1.4 kg. When the mass is less, the honey is immature - it was collected very early, without letting out excess liquid.

Artificial Impurities

In some cases, to increase the volume of honey and thicken it, in a natural, most often liquid and immature product, chalk or starch. The product becomes thicker, and looks quite mature. Find out whether the delicacy of the admixture is very simple, but, most likely, no one will do it in the market. The sellers count on it.

How to choose natural honey when buying? There is another popular way to determine the falsification of delicacies - with the help of a piece of newspaper. Drop the product on the sheet and wait a minute, when the honey quickly spreads, and the newspaper on the back has a wet spot, this is a sign of immaturity of honey or its forgery.

Summarizing

It is advisable to buy honey from bona fide and trusted sellers. These are probably acquaintances who have their apiary. A large number of quality and good varieties can be found at specialized exhibitions. The main advantage of these places is that you can try and evaluate the product here.

But where beekeeping products should not be purchased, so it is in pedestrian crossings, in stores, from sellers who go to their homes and offer their honey. In this case, a great chance to buy a fake.