Increase in demand for honey around the world is alarming? How can someone get or detect the original from fake?

[Dorcey]

It will be difficult to know the original honey from fake one due to the dishonesty of the sellers. But to get the real one, someone can make contact with those farmer that are rearing bees. They can help

 

[Alexandoy]

It is very disappointing to read a news report last December that 80% of the local honey being sold in the market are fake. To think that we have many honey producers in the rural areas here but the bottle contains a kind of syrup that looks and tastes like honey. It is ironic that I buy Sue Bee brand of honey which is expensive because it is imported from the US. I have lost trust in the honey industry here because of those fake honey that they sell just to earn a quick buck, so to speak.

 

[Sariana23]

I can't really tell the difference between real honey and fake honey, but the information they leave here, about the glass of water and the matchstick, catches my attention. The honey that I have tasted is generally brought directly from the distributors of pure honey from towns in my country. Specifically from beekeeping sites

 

[Holluwaphemmy]

Honey is a very profitable business that it's why you see people venturing into it at an alarming rate. The major way to differentiate between a real honey that is original to a fake one is by lighting a matchstick in it, if it burns well, it is original. If you don't know, original honey detoxifies poison

 

[Goodday]

Nowadays it's becoming hard for us to get original honey because of its usefulness. But you can easily test whether the honey is original or not by just pouring some amount of water in any container and add the honey. If the honey rise top, then it is original but if the honey mixes with the water, then know that it's fake.

 

[Nurudeen]

Honey is a premium medicinal content that can cure a wife range of disease, due to this fact a lot of people have been into this honey production Business, producing fake honey to the people out there. If you want to know if a honey is good or not, find a matches and dip d one stick of the matches in the honey, I mean where it has a substance for making fire only then light it and see if fire will come out, if fire doesn't come out then it's fake.

 

[Ltherman]

Getting honey from a good source will be dependent on your preferred store where you get it from. How do you even know what you have is fake?
May you can check online the key features of a fake honey.

 

[Ridorz]

The fake of honey is now more selling than original all over the world, and is very difficult to distinguish the flawless to flaw one. As for me, the only way I can know the original from fake is that the original one would tick than fake. And they have different taste.

 

[Erik4150]

If you want to know the difference between pure honey and fake honey, you can check the thickness and the taste. Original pure honey has a sweet particular taste but fake honey has a little bitter aftertaste. Pure honey is thicker than fake honey.

 

[Highflyer]

Take a teaspoon of the honey and put in a glass full of water. Fake or adulterated honey will dissolve in the water while pure honey which has a more dense texture will settle right at the bottom of the glass as lumps. The same is the case with blotting paper or a white cloth.

 

[Khezo]

Lots of fake honey around this days. To be able to detect original honey is simple really. Pure honey is thick and not so surgery. So you can use the texture. You can also drop little on the floor. Sugar ant does not bomdard original honey so after leaving the honey on the floor for sometime if no ant is seen then its original

 

[Koldej]

Yes this is a very good question, we can't deny the fact that honey has been so much in high demand now thus the need to know how to identify the fake ones because definitely alot of people are altering the quality of this honey for selfish reasons, there are lot of ways to discover if honey is original or not but I think the method I know is by putting it in a freezer, original honey doesn't freeze no matter the temperature the fridge or freezer is on.

 

[Bilal0087]

Increase in demand for honey around the world is alarming? How can someone get or detect the original from fake? What are the assurance of its workability?

Original Honey is very rare but very beneficial for human health, it prevent several viral diseases.
if you want to check eighter it is real are artificial, consider one thing that the real and pure Honey never freeze, even at 0 degree centigrade.

 

[Sotherefore]

Every country of the world has his own unique currency and the fake and counterfeit of a currency depends on the currency for example the technique you use to identify the fake currency in dollar might not be the same technique you will use to identify a fake currency in naira ,so you should just stated the currency you are using this we might be able to help you with some good tips.

 

[Abibatabosede]

To distinguish between original honey and take would be a very difficult case because most honey nowadays are always diluted with burnt sugar (caramel). To detect the original honey you can pour water on the surface if the water mix with the honey then it's fake.

 

[Lyrrex]

The only way I've been an I always identify the real honey from the fake honey is that I will put the fake honey in a stick and use a candle to light the stick I was putting the honey in and if it is a fake honey the stick will not light but if is original honey the stick light

 

[Tiwa]

As the demand is soaring so also the fake is soaring. There are many ways to differentiate original honey from fake; 1. Dip matches stick into the honey, if it ignites then it original. 2. Put water in a small bowl and put a drop of honey on the bowl of water, if the honey sink, then it is original but if it spreads on the surface of water, it is fake. There are many ways to detect, this is just little of the many ways.

This is exactly what I was going to comment on.Especially the igniting method.My uncle will usually get a mathc stick dip it inside the honey and then try to strike it against the match box.
If it ignite ,then it's quality one.Evwn at that,quality is relative.You can get likw 80% to full 100%.
But the common ones around is as worse as ordinary sugar and water .

 

[giddy]

It is these origin flowers that impact the color of your honey. Depending on which type of flower nectar the bees gathered, the honey can range anywhere from nearly colorless to dark brown. For example, buckwheat honey is dark and full, while orange blossom honey is lightly colored and sweet

 

[archahmad]

is not easy to differentiate between fake and pure honey. but there are some method that might be used to detect it. the method l know is by dipping a matches inside honey and striking in. If it catch fire its pure, while if not its fake

 

[Trexxxy]

I don't know anything about it checking the originality of honey. Seeing as s lot of people in the comments already suggested what is called "water test", I believe that would be a good checker. You can also check online for other means.