10 Tricks to Find Out if Your Honey is Natural

You need an expert and detailed analysis to confirm that the honey is natural and to list all of the ingredients. But if you want to know if you purchased the real honey that is really natural, a couple of tricks for testing will be enough.

1. Natural honey isn’t sticky

A great test will be if you take a little honey and rub the honey between the fingers. The real honey is absorbed into the skin very easily. If the honey remains sticky, that means that it contains artificial sweeteners or sugar.

2. Read the contents

This is the first thing that you have to do because it will help you to find the perfect ingredients to choose good honey that doesn’t contains additives. Every producer must appoint the contents and the percentage by a certain amount.

3. Caramelizing

Put a few teaspoons of the honey into a bowl, and then heat it in a microwave to a high temperature. The real honey gets caramelized, while the false honey becomes full of bubbles or foamy.

4. The trick with the bees

The ants pass by the real honey, which is produced by the bees. Try to put some honey in a corner. If the ants don’t touch the honey that means that the honey is natural.

5. Paper

Put a few drops on a paper of the honey. If it doesn’t break the paper after some time, it is a natural honey. Otherwise, that one that contains water in its composition, will break the paper in just few seconds.

6. Water with honey

This is probably the easiest indicator of the right composition of honey. When you put the pure honey in water, it will make lumps and falls to the bottom of the cup, while the false will melt.

7. Honey on bread

Put some honey on a bread. If the bread becomes hard, the honey is natural. If it just dampens the surface of the breads, it is not real, and that is because of the big content of water in it.

8. Tingling in your mouth

The natural honey causes mild inflammation and tingling of the tongue, while the false honey has not that effect on the palate.

9. Crystallization

The pure honey crystallizes as the time passes, while the not real honey keeps its liquid composition, even after a long period, in the form of syrup.

10. Egg yolks

You should mix 1 egg yolk with a little honey. The yolk will look like cooked if the honey is natural.