How to check the purity of honey at home?

HOW TO KNOW PURE HONEY

HOW TO KNOW PURE HONEY

HOW TO KNOW PURE HONEY

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If you want to enjoy most of the benefits derived from honey. The purity of honey is what you should consider before buying. There are some simple tests and experiments that can be performed, to verify the purity of honey.

If you are buying honey straight from a beekeeper like me, then the honey is of a raw quality as you are purchasing it straight from the source (100%Purity guaranteed)

1. The Water Test to Spot Fake Honey
Here’s how to do the water test:
Fill a glass with water
Add one tablespoon of honey into the glass
Adulterated or artificial honey will dissolve in water and you will see it around the glass
Pure honey on the other hand will settle

right at the bottom of your glass

2. Thumb Test
Here’s the procedure to do a thumb test:

Put a small drop of the honey you have on your thumb
Check to see if it spills or spreads around
If it does, it is not pure
Pure honey will stay intact on your thumb

3. The Flame Test to Know Pure Honey
Did you know that organic honey is flammable? Here’s a test to know 100% pure organic honey.

Take a dry matchstick
Dip its tip right into the honey
Strike the stick on the matchbox as if to light it
If the honey is pure, the..

matchstick will light with ease
The flame will also keep burning off the honey
However, if it is with impurities, it will not light because fake honey contains moisture as one of the impurities (the moisture will wet the matchstick)

4. PAPER TEST

Drop honey on blotting paper or a paper towel
If honey has been diluted with water, it may be absorbed or leave a wet mark on an absorbent material such as blotting paper. Pure honey should not be absorbed, but unfortunately,.....

neither will honey diluted with most sugar syrups.

5. VINEGAR TEST

Another common method to tell the difference is as follows: add some water and 2-3 drops of vinegar essence into the honey and mix well. If the solution becomes foamy, that is definitely adulterated honey.

6. FIRE PROOF TEST

Drop honey on a paper not much but a little, allowing it to spread a little on the paper.
Now place a candle with fire beneath the paper directly under the honey
The fire won't burn the paper rather is will heat the honey

Different types of pure honey can cover a large range of density, flammability, and other characteristics.While the tests above are based on true principles, in practice your results may be inconclusive. Try several of these tests to see if the honey fails or passes consistently.

In many cases, you can get nothing more than a good guess.

Above is a Thread on HOW TO KNOW PURE HONEY (quick home methods)

Fortunately, a lot of laboratory techniques have been developed to identify the purity of honey samples.

1. Determination of WATER CONTENT by hand held REFRACTORMETER.

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Here's the result from the Above Test done and also Screenshot from a Research Report done by some Apiarist for Reference purposes

Frame 1: Screenshot From the above test
Frame 2 & 3: Screenshot From Research (For Reference)
Frame 4 : Yours Truly @PhadFoods

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