4 Ways to Check Purity of Honey

How to Check if Honey is Real or Not? 4 Honey Tests

Honey

Benefits of Honey are endless. It has high nutritious, healing and energy properties. Nearly everyone prefers to have a jar of good honey on the kitchen self for daily use. But one can only take advantages of the marvelous honey properties, if the honey is real and natural. But how can we know that if, the honey we are using is the real one? It could also be artificial, as there are so many artificial, fake and cheat products out in the market, it is hard to test which is the real and right one. Well it is very easy to identify the real and natural honey with the following honey identification methods.

4 Ways to Check Real Honey 

1. Match Stick Test

Take a match stick, dip its tip into the honey and then strike it to fire flame. Natural honey will light, catch the fire and burn the honey, whereas artificial honey will not light and catch fire because of the moisture present in it.

2. Crystallization Test

Pure honey will start making crystals with time. Whereas, artificial honey will stay like a syrup even if it is stored for long time.

3. Thumb Test

Place a drop of honey on your thumb. If it spreads and spills down it is artificial and if it stays attached to your thumb it is real.

4. Water Test

Take a glass of water and add 1 table spoon of honey. Do not mix it. Just observe, pure honey will settle at the bottom of the glass, whereas artificial honey will start dissolving in the water.