Tips for choosing the best honey

　　1. Honey contains a variety of enzymes and minerals. After the synergistic effect of these substances, it is possible to improve human immunity. People who are weak and have poor immunity can enhance their immunity by drinking some honey.

　　2. Fructose contained in honey, Grape Sugar and other sugars are monosaccharides and can be absorbed by the body without digestion, which is especially suitable for those with weak digestive function. People with poor appetite can also increase their appetite by drinking some honey.

　　3. Honey has a regulating effect on gastrointestinal function and can normalize gastric acid secretion. Honey also has the effect of enhancing intestinal motility and can significantly shorten defecation time.

　　4. Honey can improve the metabolic function of myocardium. Patients with heart disease and hypertension can alleviate their condition by drinking some honey appropriately.

　　5. High-quality honey will not go rancid if left at room temperature for several years, indicating that it has a strong antiseptic effect. Honey has a strong inhibitory effect on gram-positive bacteria such as streptococci, staphylococci, and diphtheria. When treating superficial wounds, applying honey to the affected area can reduce leakage, relieve pain, promote wound healing, and prevent infection.

　　Alum and sulfuric acid mixed with fake honey can harm the body and damage IQ

　　There are so many benefits of honey, and there are many people who love to drink honey. However, there are good and bad honeys on the market, and there are many ways to make fake honey. Some people boil white sugar, sulfuric acid and water together. The sulfuric acid has a decomposing effect and can decompose the disaccharide molecules in the white sugar into monosaccharides and pass it off as honey. Some people also mix alum, sugar water and pigments. Mixing alum and water will form a gel. The honey made by this method can be almost fake.

　　Needless to say, sulfuric acid is extremely corrosive. If you accidentally get a little bit of it, skin It will burn the skin and make it impossible to enter the mouth. Once alum is eaten, it will remain in the human body. It will not harm people's lives, but it can kill brain cells, reduce people's intelligence, and lead to Alzheimer's disease.

　　Therefore, you must be careful when buying honey.

　　Boil sugar water to make fake honey, which tastes good but has no nutrition.

　　It takes about half a month from harvesting to making good honey. Making fake honey is much faster and the cost is much lower than brewing real honey. In addition to using sulfuric acid and alum to make fake honey, many people also use sugar water to boil fake honey.

　　There are generally two situations when boiling honey with sugar water. One is to boil it with a lot of water and a small amount of sugar, and then use a thickener to increase the consistency. The second is to directly use syrup as honey. Some unscrupulous vendors will also add flavors and pigments to "sugar honey".

　　Regardless of whether thickeners, flavors, and pigments may cause harm to the human body, it is very unpleasant to think about using the money you spent on honey to buy a bunch of nutritious sugar water and then eating the sugar water as a nutritional supplement.

　　Method 1: Look, taste, smell and carefully distinguish between real and fake honey

　　To distinguish good honey from bad honey, real honey and fake honey, you must comprehensively use your sensory functions: "Look, taste, and smell first."

　　1. Look at the gloss and color.

　　Real honey is thick, sticky, shiny and moist; fake honey is turbid. Especially after stirring with chopsticks, real honey has good light transmittance and uniform color; fake honey is not only turbid but also contains impurities.

　　Different honeys have different colors, so you need to know the relevant knowledge before buying honey. Sophora nectar is light amber; wattle nectar is also amber, but the color is darker than sophora nectar; hundred-flower nectar is mostly yellow-red, with variable color; jujube nectar is also darker in color. It is worth mentioning that compared to other honeys, date honey is not prone to crystallization.

　　2. Look at the crystals and rub them.

　　If you have a refrigerator at home, you can also store the honey in the refrigerator for a period of time before taking it out. Honey will become solid after being placed in an environment of 4 to 14 degrees Celsius for a while. The crystals of real honey are soft and have poor transparency, and they can stick in the eye; the crystals of fake honey cannot stick, and some fake honey crystals will make a crisp sound when bitten.

　　Put the crystals in your hands and rub them. The crystals of real honey will be fine and not gritty. Fake honey will not easily form crystals. Some fake honeys will have precipitates. The precipitates are harder than the crystals and are difficult to crush.

　　3. Smell the smell, whether it is fragrant or not.

　　Real honey exudes a light sweet fragrance, which you can smell when you open the bottle, and the fragrance lasts for a long time. This is not the case with fake honey, which either has an unnatural fragrance or has no fragrance at all.

　　4. Taste it, is it good or not?

　　Real honey is sweet and moist, and the sweetness of flowers lingers in your mouth for a long time; fake honey cannot taste the fragrance of flowers, but fake honey boiled with sugar can taste the taste of sugar. If there are crystals in real honey, the crystals will melt quickly after entering the mouth; on the contrary, in fake honey, the crystals will not dissolve easily. Some fake honey has a peculiar smell in your mouth and can irritate your throat.

　　Method 2: A pair of chopsticks and a piece of paper, and the inferior honey appears in its original shape

　　Although some honey is real, it is mixed with things such as sugar and starch. And good honey cannot add anything other than honey. How to distinguish pure honey from adulterated inferior honey? The method is very simple, just a chopstick and a piece of white paper.

　　First, let’s talk about the white paper detection method.

　　Drop honey onto white paper. Pure honey will not seep out, but honey mixed with water will seep out slowly. Pure honey has a thick texture and will form beads when dropped onto paper; inferior honey will not form and will fall apart easily.

　　Let’s talk about the chopstick test method.

　　Insert a clean chopstick into the honey and lift it straight up. Pure honey will slowly flow down the chopsticks and pull out sticky strands. If these strands are broken, they will shrink into a ball. If you feel a lot of resistance when stirring the honey with chopsticks, be careful. This means that the honey you bought may have been mixed with glucose or maltose (also known as maltose).

　　Thoughtful tips

　　Choose the honey that suits you best: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that different honeys have different effects. You can buy honey according to the physical conditions of yourself and your family.

　　Sophora nectar can dehumidify, lower blood lipids, cool blood and reduce fire, and relax blood vessels. It is very suitable for elderly ;Jujube honey is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It can replenish qi, nourish the spleen and stomach, nourish blood and calm the nerves. It is suitable for female , the elderly and the infirm; Jinghua honey has the effects of clearing away heat and dryness, clearing away heat and detoxifying; Baihua honey has the effects of moistening the intestines and laxative, nourishing the five internal organs, and removing heat and detoxification.

　　Of course, you should still go to regular shopping malls to buy honey, and people with diabetes are best not to eat honey.