Purity of Honey

Verify the Purity of Honey
Fake and impure honeys have proliferated in the Philippines. It even made its way to popular malls in the Philippines such as Robinson Malls, SM malls & Ayala Malls to name a few. Many have been preyed by such impure & fake honey, despite people’s preference for 100% bees’ honey.

Fake HoneyMost of this fake honey have emanated from Palawan, Philippines.(See full story here)

The problem with this is, unfortunately, fake and impure honey can be passed off as pure honey easily. Most of them are even labeled pure honey. When viewed on the shelf, it is very hard to pick out what is pure, and what is not.

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Test For Genuine Honey
There are, however, a few ways to we can do to "defend ourselves" from the onslaught of fake honey.

1. Always Buy Honey From a Reputable Beekeeper.

2. Check the label.
You would be amazed at how many people neglect to look closely at the label of food products before buying them, and then are dismayed to find they bought something they really didn’t want. Check around the brand name, and the ingredients list (if there is one) for a mention of additives. The company should be required to list them. If there are no mentions of additives, the honey might just be pure.

3. Taste the honey. If it seems off, and yet the label claims it is pure, there are a few simple tests you can run to check the purity of the honey.

4. Do the Honey Test.
The best Tests..

Dissolving Test.
a. Get a glass of water. This and a tablespoon of honey are all you need for the first test.
b. Empty the honey into the water. If the honey is impure, it will dissolve in the water & scatter at the bottom of the glass - the most common additive to honey is syrup of jaggery, which dissolves. If it is pure, the honey will stick together and sink as a solid lump to the bottom of the glass.

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Alcohol Test* This test can also be completed by mixing equal parts honey and methylated spirits (denatured alcohol). Pure honey will settle to the bottom. Impure honey is more likely to remain dissolved and make the solution milky.

The Taste Test.
This is the very best test. Pay a visit to a certified beekeeper's honey farm, and ask him/her to taste the honey directly from bee hives (which he might obliged if you'd be kind enough to buy a bottle or two of his honey) and compare it with the suspected fake honey you bought from an unreputable & unknown source. Normally the taste of caramel from the fake honey will stand out as compared to that of the honey from the behive.

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The Aroma Test.
Again pay a visit to a certified beekeeper's farm, and smell the honey from his beehive, and compared it to that of the suspected fake honey from unknown source. The aroma of the pure honey is similar to the aroma of the honeycomb from the beehive, whilst the smell of caramelized sugar it highly detectable from the suspected fake honey.

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WARNING!!!!
Some Unreliable Honey Test

This are b.s. tests that behavers try to sell you "honey sa balde" or what we commonly calls "hanibal". It was design by uneducated bee-haver to decieved the general public.

These are just test of viscosity of fake honey. Even syrup past this test, as we have tried it. the rationale? --If a fake honey or syrup is reduced to 8% or less in moisture content, equivalent to that of original honey, the syrup will past the following b.s. test.

1. The Blot Test (Unreliable Test)
* Pour a few drops of honey on blotting paper and observe whether or not it is absorbed. If it’s absorbed, the honey’s not pure.

* If you don’t have blotting paper, pour a little bit of honey on a white cloth, then wash the cloth. If there is any stain left by the honey, it is probably not pure.

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2.Candle Wick Test Test (Unreliable Test)
This is similar to the match-stick test, but equally unreliable as well.
* One is supposed to get a lighter and a candle with a cotton wick. This test is better if you don’t have as much honey to spare.
* Dip the cotton wick of the candle into a bit of the honey, and shake off the excess.
* Attempt to light the wick. If it burns, then it is completely pure honey. If it refuses to burn, then the presence of water is not allowing the wick to burn. (If there is only a very small amount of honey on the wick, though, it might still burn. It will produce a crackling sound, and it would be best to blow out the wick and try it again this time using more honey.)

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YOUR BEST GUARANTEE FOR PURE HONEY--

o ENSURE PURITY OF YOUR HONEY, ALWAYS BUY FROM A REPUTABLE AND CERTIFIED BEEKEEPER

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