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How To Know If Honey Is Original by pulcherima: 10:52am On Jun 18, 2015
Honey is so important. It's good for food, for healing wounds, for cosmetics, as drugs, etc. Because it has so versatile and in high demand, most of the honey that is sold around is unfortunately fake. Just last week, I did a post on how a mixture of honey and cinnamon is all you need for many of your beauty and health problems. You can't afford to have fake honey in the mix. The color and thickness of honey varies based on what kind of pollen it was made from, so color is not a good test for honey. How can you tell the fake from the original honey? Here are 7 foolproof tricks.


1. Natural Honey is not sticky

If you rub some honey between your fingers and it is sticky or gummy, then it is not all natural. Real honey is easily absorbed by the skin.

2. Caramelizing

When you pour some honey into a pan and heat it up, raw honey caramelizes while the fake ones foam and bubble.

3. The paper test

Pour some honey on paper. Real honey will stick together, while the structure of the fake one will break down after some time.

4. The Ant Test

Ants never, ever go near real honey. If you have hands in or around your honey, then it definitely has some kind of sugar in it.

5. The Water Test

Natural honey falls when poured in water and settles together at the bottom, fake honey melts and mixes in with the water.

6. The tongue test

Pure, natural honey causes a mild inflammation and tingling sensation on the tongue, the fake one does not.

7. Crystallization

Real honey crystallizes with time but the fake one becomes somewhat syrupy.

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Re: How To Know If Honey Is Original by pinkiberry(m): 10:54am On Jun 18, 2015
thanku for the info

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Re: How To Know If Honey Is Original by INTROVERT(f): 10:54am On Jun 18, 2015
Can one do all these tests in the supermarket.

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Re: How To Know If Honey Is Original by Nobody: 11:17am On Jun 18, 2015
INTROVERT:
Can one do all these tests in the supermarket.
. . . . . That is a good question. . . But i don't think it is only @ supermarkets that honey is being sold. Or do you get all your pepper (atarodo, onions, locusts beans, ugwu vegetable) at the supermarket? So you can also get your honey at the 'real' market , and perhaps you can carry out some of these tests. Goodluck, but not Ebele!!

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Re: How To Know If Honey Is Original by pulcherima: 11:53am On Jun 18, 2015
INTROVERT:
Can one do all these tests in the supermarket.

If atall you buy in a supermarket, buy a small quantity to test at home, over time you'll know the good brands, but as modelmike said, you can always buy from the regular markets and retailers and easily use the sticky and taste tests
Re: How To Know If Honey Is Original by Nobody: 3:34pm On Jun 18, 2015
Here is a test you can do at the supermarket. Take the container with honey and turn it upside down. Real honey will take time to rise gradually up to the upper level.

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