How to recognize real honey, fake honey

Small honey on a thin sheet of paper, the bile drops, and it does not permeate the paper is real honey.

Instructions to identify real honey, fake honey

According to pharmacist Vo Hung Manh, Head of Traditional Medicine Department of Traditional Medicine Hospital of Binh Dinh, honey has many health benefits but must be true and pure honey. If you don't know how to distinguish, you can buy the wrong type of honey made from sugar or starch.

In folk there is a lot of experience to help distinguish real honey - fake. According to pharmacist Manh, the usual way is to put honey on a thin piece of white paper , observe if the bile drops round and there are no signs around it, it is real honey, no water phase.

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There are many ways to identify real honey, fake honey.

Another way to distinguish true fake is: take fresh onions and dip them into a bottle of honey, take out for a few minutes, the onion leaves will turn from green to dark if real honey. In addition, it is possible to drip bile into a place where ants are present, if ants are not buoyed, they are also true honey.

Today, the way most people use is to put honey in the freezer compartment, after 24 hours without the freezing phenomenon, it is true honey.

However, Manh said that the quality of real honey is very different now, depends heavily on the land , the season, the weather . Anh Phu, a beekeeper farmer in the mountainous area of ​​An Lao, Binh Dinh, said: "These are forest honey, but in the land where there are many eucalyptus trees, cajuput leaves . bees suck the stamens of these trees as honey will not be as good as the natural flowers of the mountain forests" .

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Use honey

  1. Honey is used in cosmetics and skin care because of its cleansing and moisturizing properties. Honey contains 80% sugar and the remaining 20% ​​includes nutrients like iron, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C, B and magnesium. This natural material has antibacterial and antiseptic properties that help improve healing effectiveness.
  2. Because of its antibacterial and antifungal properties, honey is the basic ingredient used to enhance health and lighten the skin. Apply a little honey on the bruise, melasma before sleeping, and wash with warm water the next morning. Done within a few days, the skin will reduce dark, pigmentation.
  3. Honey is used to treat other skin problems such as eczema, plaque and psoriasis, reducing inflammation in the skin.
  4. Honey contains vitamins, minerals and amino acids, which stimulate the metabolism of fat and cholesterol, help maintain body weight and prevent obesity.
  5. Drinking a cup of warm water mixed with honey and lemon juice when you're hungry in the early morning after waking up is a very simple and effective way to lose weight. Honey helps detoxify, clean the liver, remove toxins and expel fat from the body.