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How to Tell Good Honey from Bad

Editor: Chinese Food Network Mobile site

  honeyQuality can be determined from four aspects: color, aroma, taste, and thickness.

Color: Genuine honey has strong transparency and uniform color.Poor-quality honey is turbid with impurities.New honey with a light amber color and transparency is genuine.

Aroma: True honey emits a distinctive honey fragrance shortly after harvest, which is fragrant and long-lasting; you can smell it when the bottle is opened.Or rub a little honey in your palm and sniff it for an attractive honey aroma.

Taste: Honey is clear and sweet without any irritation to the throat.Good quality honey dissolves easily in hot water with no sediment;Poor-quality honey does not dissolve easily, and there are sediments.

Thickness: Premium honey has high concentration and flows slowly.Drip a drop of honey on paper; genuine honey forms a bead that does not spread easily.Poor-quality honey does not form a bead and spreads easily.