Perhaps among us are still confused to distinguish the original honey with a fake honey. It becomes reasonable, because all this time the fake honey has has the same appearance with original honey. This causes a lot of people fooled. While on the other hand, there are many incorrect assumptions about the features of the original honey circulating in the community, include:
1. Ants do not like honey
2. Genuine honey does not freeze in the refrigerator
Is this true?
In fact:
Ants are very happy with honey. The strange thing just when Honey is not visited by ants, because it indicates that the honey is generally contain high water content. Do ants like with water? Of course not…
The original Honey is a viscous liquid containing 17-25% water, andof course all pure water will freeze in a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. If there is honey, which does not freeze at least for 7 daysthen certainly the honey has been contained CHEMICALS ANTIFROZEN and it was very dangerous for health.
Well ..., how to distinguish fake honey with original honey? Below I give the tips to distinguish the original honey versus fake honey.
Method 1.
Heat ½ tablespoon of honey on the candle, the difference is that the original honey foaming a lot and will be spilled after boiling, while thefake honey foam shapes that appear small and does not spill.
Method 2.
Whisk the honey, which is still in the bottle but not fully charged for 2 minutes. The difference is there will be a original honey granules evenly distributed bubbles as a whole as well as the original honey color will turn into younger (little white). And left for some time after the original honey will return home with a color change to keep the froth. As for fake honey, discoloration and overall amount of foam that will not happen.
Method 3.
Stir with a flat 3 tablespoons of honey in a glass of water,
Then leave it for some time. If there are deposits of black granules which means that honey is a fake. The original honey will look granular deposits but not black, but brown in color (yellowish).
Method 4.
Combine 4 drops of Iodine Tincture into 25 drops of honey and shake until evenly distributed. Consider the colorof honey. If the color turns black, it indicates that the fake honey that made from sugar. While the original colors remain as before or even if it turns into a dark, dark reddish.
Now that's a few tips to distinguish the original honey versus a fake honey. Hopefully useful ...
