We all consume honey, but how well do we actually recognize and can we test pure honey? Nowadays, not only with honey, but we also cannot be sure what is natural and what is not generally in the food we consume.
Honey is rich with sugars, acids, glucose, fructose, iron. All of these elements are absorbed by people’s organism and is transferred to the blood. This is one of the reasons that makes honey a true liquid gold and so beneficial for the people’s immunity. Read more about 10 Everyday Uses Of Honey You Probably Did Not Know! and how to Improve Your Immune System With This Mixture of Honey and Eggs .
Methods to recognize and test pure honey
1) When buying honey in a supermarket, take a jar of honey and turn it upside down. Artificial honey will separate from the bottom of the jar all at once. Natural honey will slowly separate from the bottom of the jar and drip slowly. If the honey you want to buy does this, you are fine.
2) Take a bit of honey and massage it on your palm. As soon as you start massaging it, natural honey will become warm and oil-like. In fact, natural honey will even soak into your skin, like a hand cream. However, if you see that there appear sugar crystals while it dries, then the honey is not 100% natural.
3) Another thing you can do to test if you consume natural honey is trying to put a few tablespoons of honey in a microwave. Set the microwave on high temperature. As a result, natural honey will caramelize really quickly. Artificial honey will become bubbly and will not caramelize.
4) Lift one spoonful of honey over the jar. Let the honey fall into the jar. Unlike artificial honey, natural honey will drip continuously.
5) Add one tablespoon of honey into one glass of water. Natural honey will not melt and will stay solid at the bottom of the glass. Artificial honey will gradually dissolve.
Make an experiment
Put one tablespoon of honey into a bowl half-filled with water. Start swirling the bowl with the ingredients in it. After a few swirls, you should see the honey forming honeycomb shapes.