Drinking this honey will be “counterproductive”, causing diabetes, heart disease, and damage to the digestive tract

Worryingly, the use of fake, poor quality honey will make users lose their digestive balance or be at risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and visceral fat.

Honey has long been considered a precious food, often used as medicine. According to modern medicine, in a spoonful of honey contains about 64 calories, many vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium … and especially, does not contain fat or cholesterol.

Honey, in addition to treating burns, frostbite and moisturizing the skin, also plays a very good role for the respiratory system, promotes cardiovascular health, is good for the liver, kidneys and spleen, cleans the skin and effectively loses weight.

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Because of its many health benefits, honey is widely used in every family. However, among the many types of honey on the market, not all honey is pure. To increase profits, many sellers have added water, alum, sugar water and a number of chemicals, colorants… to honey to make a profit. This has a significant impact on the health of consumers.

Talking about the problem of fake honey, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh (former lecturer at the Institute of Food and Biotechnology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology) said: The act of making fake honey is very condemnable. If the seller mixes fake honey with additives that are prohibited from being used in food, it can threaten the health of users.

Worryingly, the use of fake honey can cause people to have digestive imbalances or be at risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and visceral fat… Therefore, it is necessary to understand the knowledge. to know what is real honey and not guaranteed honey to decide whether to use it or not.

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How to distinguish wild honey, farmed honey and honey mixed with sugar water?

According to experts, for the most peace of mind, you should choose to buy honey from reliable places, in addition, it should be based on some of the following characteristics:

Nutrition experts say that wild honey or unmixed farmed honey has nutritional value for health, healing and beauty. It is worrisome to buy fake honey, or honey that has been mixed, contaminated with impurities.

The drawback to farmed honey is that in the rainy season the bees cannot fly away to get honey, so farmers are forced to add food such as sugar to maintain the bees’ life. In addition, bees are often susceptible to diseases, in order to save bees, farmers often have to use antibiotics to treat them. Therefore, the best choice is to buy wild honey.

According to experts, wild honey often has the characteristics of foamy honey, creating gas, with a layer of chalky scum that clings to the mouth of the bottle. And farmed honey rarely produces gas. The smell of farmed honey is mostly less aromatic. In terms of consistency, wild honey is thinner than farmed honey.

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To distinguish pure honey and honey mixed with sugar water, you can try the most common way when buying honey to extract a little and put it in the freezer compartment. After 3 to 5 hours, if the honey hardens like ice, it means that the honey is all sugar water. If half a bottle is frozen, it is honey mixed with sugar water or honey that is raised with a large amount of sugar. Honey that has not coagulated means pure honey.

Or you can use 1 sheet of paper, then leave it in a place where ants often appear. If it’s real honey, ants won’t eat it because real honey contains antibiotics that ants don’t dare to eat. In contrast, fake honey contains all sugar and sweeteners, so it will easily attract the attention of ants.