Recently, the author visited a bee that has experience of a few years of 20 apiculture farming, let him share discern the little knowledge of honey of true and false.
Ruan Qiliang, guangxi grand brings prefectural person, the author of Ruan honey, have rich apiculture experience, it is the author carries a dialogue below editorial discern little knowledge of honey of true and false.
1. sees color
The color of sterling honey is flaxen, amber perhaps. The honey of general south is flaxen amber perhaps base much, color is a bit deeper. Northward honey is a bit more shallow, have bit of shallow white.
2. smells odour
Sterling honey has a light beautiful sweet smell, false honey smells have the sort of essence taste only.
3. tastes mouthfeel
Sterling honey has the feeling of larynx of a kind of candle, general false honey it besides sweet sweet still. True honey besides candle having a place, still have slightly acerbity. The honey of individual breed is contained small acrid, 9 dragon cane is for instance sweet, the pleasant after suffering is sweet.
4. experiments to water
Sterling honey enters the mineral spring water bottle of water to exert all one's strength shake, a bubble can appear above honey water, and prolonged is not retreated, a few minutes of 20 bubble still exist. False honey also can have bubble, but meet very quickly abreaction, next water can become very clear, the water of true honey is cloudy.
5. grinds grain
True honey is taken go up to chafe gently in one's hand, honey can be changed. And false honey is to have feeling of a kind of grain, change do not drop.
6. heats up iron wire to test a standard
Take to burn red iron wire to be put into go inside honey, it risks the smoke that come out to have a full-bodied beautiful sweet smell. If be false honey, for instance of syrup make it, burn red iron wire to put in it to risk the smoke that come out to have an anxious burnt taste, very burnt very smelly.
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