How to check if Honey is Pure. - Water Test: Place a spoonful of honey in a glass of water. Pure honey will generally dissolve slowly and settle at the bottom. If the honey disperses quickly or floats, it might be diluted. - Thumb Test: Put a small amount of honey on your thumb. If it spills or spreads quickly, it might be adulterated. Pure honey should stay intact and not run off. - Heat Test: Place a small amount of honey in a pan and heat it. Pure honey will caramelize and not produce foam. Adulterated honey may bubble and foam. - Paper Test: Place a drop of honey on a piece of paper. Pure honey should not seep through the paper. If it does, it could be diluted.
Most of those are just tests for moisture content. Pure honey can be 18-22% moisture content, depending on environmental conditions when the honey was produced. My 21% honey that I pulled from my own hives would fail most of those tests... Videos like this result in me having to refund money to my customers that purchased perfectly natural raw, unfiltered wildflower honey, but saw a video on UA-cam that convinced them we sold them fake honey. Happens every year. Thank you so much..
@Cecilia Cole Unfortunately, there's not. The rice syrup that's used to cut Chinese honey is almost impossible to test for. Labs have developed a test that looks for specific enzymes. Best option is to not buy honey that's imported. China ships the fake honey to various countries to hide the country of origin. Unless you're in China, avoid any imported honey.
@@themikecranston not just china even some honey from States, New Zealand, etc. honey may not be pure too. New Zealand Manuka honey is not cheap yet there are not really pure. These are reputable brand too.
@@ListerTube Lots of incentive to cheat. Globally, consumption of honey is something like 4x the possible production. They means that 3/4 of the honey by volume isn't honey.
you're welcome. its up to YOU to prove it to the customer, otherwise we'll find someone who can sell us what we pay for. and an "all sales final" sign would pretty much solve all your issues , if you don't want to refund grandma you don't have to
I am a beekeeper and I can tell you that some of these test will not help you distinguish between pure and none pure honey. To start, honey acts very different depending on the moisture content inside. Honey with a moisture content of 18% would fail some of these test like the thumb test and he air in jar test. It is common for pure bees honey to have around 18% moisture depending on where it was harvested. Warm honey would also fail the thumb test and air in jar test as honey consistency changes with temperature.
I read that the procedure to fake honey is perfected so well that the only way to tell if it's real is to test it in a lab . I bought raw unfiltered honey in north Carolina that I trusted and it tasted great . Now I have retired to my wife's county in the Philippines . I haven't seen a single honey bee here yet in 4 years . But they sell "honey" on the streets etc . I bought some and it gave me acne Honey does not do that. Comparing the taste to honey I bought that came from usa you could tell the difference . I just don't buy "honey" from the Philippines.
Austin Stringer, I agree with you. I have pure honey with the comb, however when I'm baking in my kitchen the room temperature becomes much higher which make my honey much softer and very runny.
I grew up as a beekeeper's son (& hence, assistant) and am somewhat amused by these 'tests'. Honey is a variable substance, changing with temperature, depending heavily on floral source etc. It is also very hygroscopic and will absorb moisture from the air if allowed, thereby changing its viscosity. The rising air bubble test for one is nonesense. Try that with 100% pure granulated aloe honey for example.
Thats what I thought witht the thumb test! Viscosity can be very easily altered by a thickening agent. How reliable are the other tests tho like the flame test? Can you tell us some of your tips on how can we identify whats fake?
Hi Douglas, you are an expert in beekeeping and honey. I would appreciate your thoughts on how to check if honey is pure. I have a question that I hope you can answer. Does boiling hot water reduce or eliminate all of the good nutrients that are in honey? I always add honey to my tea and try to wait until it isn't boiling hot before I add the honey.
الطريقة الفعالة هي أن تأخذ صحن وتضع فيه قليلا من العسل ومن ثم وضع القليل من الماء وقم بتحريك الصحن بشكل دائري لمدة نصف دقيقة ستلاحظ أن العسل الجيد سيرسم لك شكل خلية النحل .. وشكراً
Sorry. This is just wrong. You can not confirm the honey is real by those tests you described. Although you can tell by those, whether the honey is a good one or not. But this is also a matter of subjective taste prefferance. Honeys are different, depending on the season, different by year even, also, depending on altitude, flora of the region, beekeeper's technique.. For me, the best honey is the honey from the beehive that was not fed with sugar at the time of honey harvest and secondly, the wax compartments should be closed already by bees. This means honey is matured, water is evaporated or so to say honey is ready for the storage for the whole year or more. So you basically have to know the beekeeper well and to trust him. Still it is actually great that with this video you address the huge problem of faking honey, all around the world. Thank you. 🙏
So you know how to check if honey is pure but, where would you go if you were to die today? Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus. Don't delay tomorrow might be too late. You are not promised even the next minute. Do it now
Must know the beekeper. And trust him! That's the rule! What about if honey is cristalized? Wich is natural in many types of honey. Beekeper from south america, greetings.
@@marcoaurelio296 If honey is cristalized that means it is pure/genuine bee honey. Every genuine bee honey MUST christalize sooner or later. Sugar made honey do not christalize for a looooooooooooooooong time. Beekeper from Hungary/Europe.
@@karad5064 Greetings from Argentina. Dear colleague, here we have a tree which name is "Mistol" that produces honey that doesn't crystalice. Even un winter. It gets more dense, but no crystalization.
Thank you for posting this - It was interesting, but, like others stated, you would have strengthened your claim if you performed all of these tests on pure honey and then shown them with honey that has been diluted/altered. 👍
So you know how to check if honey is pure but, where would you go if you were to die today? Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus. Don't delay tomorrow might be too late. You are not promised even the next minute. Do it now
@@perryfroze good advice my friend... just don't forget to tell people to obey God and keep His commandments (John 14:15). Sinners will not enter the congregation of the righteous (Psalm 1:5), but only those who keep God's commandments (Revelation 14:12, 22:14). That's what it means to "follow Jesus," as you said. ;-)
Nicely shown how the pure honey will be . Good & interesting one. Will check when I buy. Expect more tips like this in future. Stay safe, blessed & tuned
Depending on quality of honey. Mine runs off nail. I took it myself from deep Kirirum mountain, Cambodia. After 6 months in bottle it turns deep dark - extremely potent.
Very true.....its not the best way to find out wther its pure or not just by putting a drop on your nail.... Honey also depend upon season of harvest during winter its more thick than summer honey..
@StillJustMe The one I got from a family member, who's a beekeper, is pretty light, due to the diet of the bees. But damn is it thick. It crystallizes in a month after harvest, so getting it runny is next to impossible without boiling it.
Honey depends on the flowers and the atmospheric conditions in that area where the hive exists. Pure jungle honey of the Sunderbans area are watery type and not so thick.
Nice ideas but: you did not show the counter example. Also: Different honey have a different amount of water inside. Some really very good honey can be very light runny. It will not stick to your bread and flow down. Like acacia honey. Larch honey has quickly crystals like normal sugar as it contains little water. Bee die in winter if they have mostly this honey. I had bees by myself. When you feed them sugar for the winter then they add also things from the flowers and it tastes totally like honey. So sorry up to now I have not found something to proof if a honey is pure. Yet as I was working with bees I can quickly say because of the smell if it is a good honey or not. Normally people don‘t even notice a difference while I do.
Nope sorry it has to do with the temperature of the honey..not water content. Honey is sealed in the comb..with moisture content between 16 and 18 %. No more no less. The honey bees do this. 2% difference will not affect how runny the honey is. I know a lil. I have over 300 hives.
Get a match and dip it in your honey if it ignites when u light it ...then its pure honey since there is no water contents....try it. I did this every time i buy my honey....
Much appreciated! Labels tend to fib a lot and it drives me crazy! Example: Pure does NOT mean pure! Also, No sugar is not always the case! Propel says no sugar, but sucrose is sugar!!! Always read labels and learn the meanings of the words even if you can not pronounce them! lol. There should be a law against misrepresentation on ALL labels for consumer protection!!!
My daughter brought me a jar of flavored honey from Croatia, I’m pretty sure they added color and a flavor to corn syrup because that was the texture and had no real flavor . Probably why they added flavor to cover the lack of amber color. Thanks for the lesson it pretty much confirms my suspicion. I guess anything that can be expensive like olive oil and honey are prone to counterfeiting these days.
I'm from Croatia,and we have some good and high quality honey...but it all dependes where is it bought,in the supermarket or in local store?...it's not the same.... P.s. Croatian olive oil is especially very well known as high quality product... Olive oil from Istria and dalmatian region... Greetings from Croatia🤗
@@janna7777the honey you sell on the streets is the fakest honey I ever saw,I drive through croatia and we r beekeepers its a shame of what these people sell on streets.Mandarina,oil and some fruits are great but honey its catastrophic.
Put some water on a white plate. Put a big drop of honey on the water. Shake the plate right and left continuously, like you are sieving flour. Pure honey should form a honeycomb structure on the plate. I trust this test more than any other tests.
The best test was the water test, though it's not perfect either. Honey does not dissolve quickly in water at peak quality. Few people know that honey will never spoil. I ate some 12-year-old honey that had solidified hard as a rock. I microwaved it a minute and it liquified and was delicious, never went solid again.
I feel like the only way to buy honey with confidence is to get it from your local bottler. I’m in Wisconsin and there are a few amazing places that are tremendous. There are small manufacturers all over the country, look into something nearest you and stay away from anything imported of produced by large corporations.
The viscosity of the honey depends on the outside temperature as well just is the case with other fluids. If you place it in a cup of hot tea it will also dissolve and not sink and lump at the bottom. This video has many limitations.
Thank you. Excellent. I try to eat healthy. A tablespoon of local honey daily is so good for so many things to the body. It's even in the Book to eat a little honey
See, this is the problem when we don't have the Dislike button. We have actual beekeepers on the comments telling us this test isn't accurate. But unlike before, we viewers do not have a quick way to gauge how accurate the video is, unless we trawl through the comments.
I remember how that thumbs down button helped you understand the validity of its content. Screw UA-cam with all their censorship. There are many fast creating other platforms that will be an alternative source without sourcing from a system that maintains control.
The burning test is kinda silly way to test if it burns when you're putting it on tissue paper, something that burns easily on it's own. Smart way is to burn the honey on the metal spoon and see if it lights up.
it's not always the honey test that's true. It all depends on the water content in the honey produced by the bees. If the water content is low, especially honey produced in dry areas, then the honey is thick. Viscosity is very influential on the force of gravity. Likewise, honey with a lot of water content in tropical countries, for example, differs in its adhesion and density with thicker honey. 🙏
The best way to know if your honey is pure is if your honey sticks with you (through thick and thin ); if your honey goes deep down with you to the bottom; if your honey goes with you all the way even up in smoke; and finally when life is turned upside down your honey shows your the right way up slowly.
Really Rohan? The word of the Lord is sweeter than honey. By keeping Christmas and Easter, you are worshipping the dragon Satan. Why not worship God the Father in the passover, Pentecost and feast of tabernacles that he said? Christmas and Easter are sins in Jeremiah 10:1-5, Revelation 11:10, Galatians 4:8-10, Ezekiel 8:16, Deuteronomy 18:10, etc. Repent and stop observing times (witchcraft) if you truly love Jesus our Lord.
It's real simple you cannot trust humans to be honest when it comes to making money, or keeping promises. Governments cannot be trusted at all because the government is made up of Lying, Greedy money grubbing politicians.
Do you all know that pure honey does not freeze in the freezer..if it freezes then it is adulterated. Put a small amount of honey in a cup and put it in the freezer compartment of the fridge..pure honey will stay liquid even after few hours or days.
This is true but not 100% right. Honey collected from wild bees may have higher eater content and doesn't pass this test eventhough it is not adulterated.
Well... If the tissue was still burning, it was probably pure honey as they usually add water/dilute the honey. As a reason of it, the tissue becomes wet and therefore not burn.
Let me tell you as a food safety chemist, these are nice party tricks, but nothing else. To differentiate real from fake honey, you need sophisticate laboratory instrumentation.
My method is to dip a matchstick head in it and ignite the match as usual. If it sparks and burns, then it is pure honey. I consider this the fastest and most accurate test. Anyways, thanks for this video. 😊👍
From my experience hunting for wild honey in the mountains there are always difference in viscosity and moisture due to weather and age of the hive.. The younger the hive the more moisture it has and not that viscous and some even have foaming when the comb was pressed.
Claims about adulterated honey were tested in Australia several years back, and found almost no evidence of adulterated honey in shops. So while this is widely believed, it isn't necessarily true. Choice Magazine prompted the investigation but the national regulator disputed the claims and maintains that the test used is not sufficiently accurate to be valid. (cant recall what it was offhand). Shooting from the hip, it looks to me that these 'tests' in the video prove nothing. Not least because this can only work if you already have samples of known 'pure' honey, and 'adulterated honey', and that appears to not be the case. Note that exactly what 'adulterated honey' means, is not known anyway; it could mean many different things, so it is not as if there are only two possible samples.
I bought 4 small glasses of Spanish honey. The first glas was soft and easy to use on your bred. Very nice in my cop of tea also. But the other 3 glasses has crystallized and is of corse hard. The seller told me to warm it up and stir around so it becomes more soft again. 1 time should be enough they said. Mine is with lavender and one with orange flower. They do taste awsome they really do, but it is some work when you open a new glass. The first glas I bought was soft. They are very expensive. 10 dollars for one little glas.🥴
It sounds like you're enjoying some really unique and flavorful honey! The crystallization process is completely natural and actually shows that the honey is pure and free of additives. The lavender and orange flower flavors must add such an interesting twist to your tea and bread. It’s a bit of a hassle when the honey hardens, but the method the seller suggested (warming it up and stirring) should definitely help bring it back to a smooth consistency. Since it's quite an investment at $10 per jar, it’s understandable you want to make the most of it! One trick to prevent crystallization from happening too fast is to store the honey in a warm, dry place. The warmer temperature helps keep it in a liquid form longer. But if it does crystallize again, just pop it in a warm water bath for a little while. It sounds like the flavors make it worth the extra work, though!
@@Natureflowers Thank you.Yes, it taste fantastic.I do keep them in cupboard.Dark and dry. My oncle were a bee Honey makers when he was younger, The flavour were Borring compared to. Now I love sandwich with honey or a t- spoon in my tea.😋
Yeah, a lady gave me a quart fresh from her hives and it seemed thin but was delicious. In a week or 2, it soured, so they harvested it 2-3 weeks too early. It was pure, but not dry enough to harvest.
Kinda nice but the only full proof test of honey is true chemical analysis of component. Honey comes with different MC level based on season of harvest and nectar sucked. High moisture content honey (20 and above) will run fast upward in the jar.
I bought local honey for the first and I’ll never go back to store bought honey. Pure honey has a different taste and different colors. I did learn that as well. But very cool video though!👍 God Bless Everybody in the comments and to you as well! 🙏🙏🙏
Yeah not so much. You can dehydrate honey and syrup by leaving it open in air conditioning for a short time. Beekeepers can also feed sugar or HFCS to their bees and collect it also. The only and best sure way is to get your honey local from an honest beekeeper that only produces it the right way and at a fair price. There's far more small beeks around than you probably realize. Most not commercial sellers but have some that they let go of every season to help pay for the habit of keeping bees.
Many companies have gotten away with making many of the food products as denatured as possible in the name of profits. Most people are clueless of the unscrupulous games most food companies play to the detriment of the consuners' health. That is why we must be conscious about everything we consume on a daily basis in order to make proper decisions in regards to our health and wellbeing.
The tests you show are not to show pure honey but to show honey that has a high moisture content. Pure honey can also have a high moisture content if it was harvested to soon.
You know, people may think fake honey is not harmful. But I would like to remind people that you don't know what is used to make it, depending on where it originates. Because there is a known issue with cough & cold type syrups being adulterated with things like propylene glycol type chemicals (i.e. antifreeze, which is sweet and dogs like it too). So many of our food products are now produced out of country, yet packaged here and we may not know where it came from. Thank you for this vid!
A serious video would have a split screen, with each experiment done on the pure, and the non-pure honeys. That way, we don't have to blindly take your word. Has that even crossed your mind?
I am a bee keeper, and I can tell you that not one of this test is reliable to test for pure honey, it is only testing moisture content. And honey from different plants gives honey with widely different moisture content.
He forgot the main test which is simplest. Turn the jar upside down. Watch the honey in base dripping. It should drip in 1 single line and not as drops. If the dripping breaks up, then its a mix.
I am not a bee farmer nor an expert on the subject, yet I know that all of these tests are BS. We have raw, pure, unfiltered honey as a result from a beehive removal from our home. We decided to keep the honey to ourselves (we asked nicely to the bee wrangler). I know where our honey came from and I put it in jars straight from the honeycombs myself and it would fail all of these tests since it seems like the water content in it is a bit on the high side. Take what you see here with a huge boulder of salt.
Another way is this. Take the honey and pour about a 3-4” blob on a plate. Let it spread out. Put water on the plate just enough to cover the honey, and swish water gently back and forth over the honey. Pure unfiltered unheated honey will generate its genetic code immediately, you will see, all hexagon designs. Watered down or impure honey, the hexagon genetic code will barely be visible. A lot of watered down crap out there. No joke
It seems you don't really know the meaning of 'Testing'. It is actually a comparative analysis. And to do so you need 1) a threshold benchmark, and 2) a Control. The Threshold Benchmarks are pre-established parameters and you have defined them (cohesiveness like a drop on the nail, ability to burn like a fuel, etc.). But where is the Control? In this case, it should have been a fake sample of honey that clearly fails on the Threshold Benchmarks. Without that, the entire video becomes simply a subjective viewpoint, a personal opinion of yours that may or may not be true under different conditions
The only original way to test pure honey is by stirring honey using a spoon in a glass of water,when stirring keep on checking on the inside part of the spoon.before all honey gets dissolved,a small layer of honey covering the spoon will have the image of a honey comb
I coolest test ive done is by dropping a tsp of honey into a quarter glass of water and swirl it gently. They honey inside will take hexagon shapes! Try it! Its so cool.
Also with pure honey…if you put a drop on a saucer and add just a little hot water and swirl the plate; the honey will form a honeycomb shape where the drop is and fake honey just dissolves.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful analytical tool which can be used for authenticating honey, at chemical constituent levels by enabling identification and quantification of the spectral patterns.
I used to buy what I thought was clover honey from Meijer ( based in Grand Rapids MI), but it never crystallizes. 80 Oz. Square plastic bottle. It says it's from USA, Canada, Mexico, or Argentina. Walmart has half gal in round bottle, little more expensive, but it crystallizes half way through.
Pure honey, when placed on a piece of fresh bread, will make it hard and rough on the tongue in just a few minutes. The bread under the honey still feels dry. If the honey contains glucose-fructose syrup as an additive, the bread does not feel altered and is still soft. This is especially evident on fresh bread. In addition, chemical pencils do not leave a mark on the fingers if we smeared them with real honey. I'm talking about a special kind of pencils that have artificial graphite, which dissolves in water and releases a deep purple color. I don't know what these pencils are called in English, but they are often used by builders and technicians.
loved this video, next time use a different honey as a comparison, so people that have had little to no experience wit the substance understand from comparison.
It would have been good to demonstrate the impure so that we could actually see it instead of only imagining it. But other than that, thank you for your video.
How to check if Honey is Pure.
- Water Test: Place a spoonful of honey in a glass of water. Pure honey will generally dissolve slowly and settle at the bottom. If the honey disperses quickly or floats, it might be diluted.
- Thumb Test: Put a small amount of honey on your thumb. If it spills or spreads quickly, it might be adulterated. Pure honey should stay intact and not run off.
- Heat Test: Place a small amount of honey in a pan and heat it. Pure honey will caramelize and not produce foam. Adulterated honey may bubble and foam.
- Paper Test: Place a drop of honey on a piece of paper. Pure honey should not seep through the paper. If it does, it could be diluted.
Most of those are just tests for moisture content. Pure honey can be 18-22% moisture content, depending on environmental conditions when the honey was produced. My 21% honey that I pulled from my own hives would fail most of those tests... Videos like this result in me having to refund money to my customers that purchased perfectly natural raw, unfiltered wildflower honey, but saw a video on UA-cam that convinced them we sold them fake honey. Happens every year. Thank you so much..
@Cecilia Cole Unfortunately, there's not. The rice syrup that's used to cut Chinese honey is almost impossible to test for. Labs have developed a test that looks for specific enzymes. Best option is to not buy honey that's imported. China ships the fake honey to various countries to hide the country of origin. Unless you're in China, avoid any imported honey.
Good to know ....people should research and confirm from beekeepers like yourself...
@@themikecranston not just china even some honey from States, New Zealand, etc. honey may not be pure too. New Zealand Manuka honey is not cheap yet there are not really pure. These are reputable brand too.
@@ListerTube Lots of incentive to cheat. Globally, consumption of honey is something like 4x the possible production. They means that 3/4 of the honey by volume isn't honey.
you're welcome. its up to YOU to prove it to the customer, otherwise we'll find someone who can sell us what we pay for. and an "all sales final" sign would pretty much solve all your issues , if you don't want to refund grandma you don't have to
I wish you had both, a real one and fake and show the difference....thanks for sharing though.
Good for helping us,👍🤩😍
Exactly
Quite Right 👍👌
Exactly
I agree, buy cheap honey, and buy raw honey compare that way...worth a try👍
I am a beekeeper and I can tell you that some of these test will not help you distinguish between pure and none pure honey. To start, honey acts very different depending on the moisture content inside. Honey with a moisture content of 18% would fail some of these test like the thumb test and he air in jar test. It is common for pure bees honey to have around 18% moisture depending on where it was harvested. Warm honey would also fail the thumb test and air in jar test as honey consistency changes with temperature.
I read that the procedure to fake honey is perfected so well that the only way to tell if it's real is to test it in a lab .
I bought raw unfiltered honey in north Carolina that I trusted and it tasted great .
Now I have retired to my wife's county in the Philippines . I haven't seen a single honey bee here yet in 4 years . But they sell "honey" on the streets etc . I bought some and it gave me acne
Honey does not do that.
Comparing the taste to honey I bought that came from usa you could tell the difference . I just don't buy "honey" from the Philippines.
@@Enshadowed honey and the same with olive oil . No one can be trusted until proven to be honest.
So whats the best way to test the impurity of our honey then??
@@harukrentz435 I only buy from a reputable source .
The one in north Carolina was local , raw unfiltered .
There was no doubt it was real .
Austin Stringer, I agree with you. I have pure honey with the comb, however when I'm baking in my kitchen the room temperature becomes much higher which make my honey much softer and very runny.
I grew up as a beekeeper's son (& hence, assistant) and am somewhat amused by these 'tests'. Honey is a variable substance, changing with temperature, depending heavily on floral source etc. It is also very hygroscopic and will absorb moisture from the air if allowed, thereby changing its viscosity. The rising air bubble test for one is nonesense. Try that with 100% pure granulated aloe honey for example.
Yep. Viscosity test was nonsensical.
Thats what I thought witht the thumb test! Viscosity can be very easily altered by a thickening agent. How reliable are the other tests tho like the flame test? Can you tell us some of your tips on how can we identify whats fake?
I'm a Butchers son🥩Does that make me a son of a Butcher🥩
Then how to check the honey is real or not?
Hi Douglas, you are an expert in beekeeping and honey. I would appreciate your thoughts on how to check if honey is pure. I have a question that I hope you can answer. Does boiling hot water reduce or eliminate all of the good nutrients that are in honey? I always add honey to my tea and try to wait until it isn't boiling hot before I add the honey.
الطريقة الفعالة هي أن تأخذ صحن وتضع فيه قليلا من العسل ومن ثم وضع القليل من الماء وقم بتحريك الصحن بشكل دائري لمدة نصف دقيقة ستلاحظ أن العسل الجيد سيرسم لك شكل خلية النحل .. وشكراً
Sorry. This is just wrong. You can not confirm the honey is real by those tests you described. Although you can tell by those, whether the honey is a good one or not. But this is also a matter of subjective taste prefferance.
Honeys are different, depending on the season, different by year even, also, depending on altitude, flora of the region, beekeeper's technique..
For me, the best honey is the honey from the beehive that was not fed with sugar at the time of honey harvest and secondly, the wax compartments should be closed already by bees. This means honey is matured, water is evaporated or so to say honey is ready for the storage for the whole year or more.
So you basically have to know the beekeeper well and to trust him.
Still it is actually great that with this video you address the huge problem of faking honey, all around the world.
Thank you. 🙏
So you know how to check if honey is pure but, where would you go if you were to die today? Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus. Don't delay tomorrow might be too late. You are not promised even the next minute. Do it now
Must know the beekeper. And trust him! That's the rule! What about if honey is cristalized? Wich is natural in many types of honey.
Beekeper from south america, greetings.
@@marcoaurelio296 If honey is cristalized that means it is pure/genuine bee honey. Every genuine bee honey MUST christalize sooner or later. Sugar made honey do not christalize for a looooooooooooooooong time. Beekeper from Hungary/Europe.
@@karad5064 Greetings from Argentina. Dear colleague, here we have a tree which name is "Mistol" that produces honey that doesn't crystalice. Even un winter. It gets more dense, but no crystalization.
The transition "So you know things about honey.. but have you heard of Jesus?" is pure comedy gold
comparison sample would have helped a lot though.
Exactly
I'm about to comment exactly the same. Opened the comments to write and found yours😅😅
It's processed honey. Pure got crystallised. Once come in contact with atmospher. It's look like sticky sugar granules.
Yeap... I was going to recommend the same thing. 😉
@@alinafstrmom7725 me too
Thank you for posting this - It was interesting, but, like others stated, you would have strengthened your claim if you performed all of these tests on pure honey and then shown them with honey that has been diluted/altered. 👍
So you know how to check if honey is pure but, where would you go if you were to die today? Seek the Lord and saviour Jesus Christ before it's too late. John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Hell is real and Heaven is also real. You don't want to spend an eternity in Hell torment without God. The only way to escape Hell is to follow Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour. Study the KJV Bible to know more and pray and seek until you find Jesus. Don't delay tomorrow might be too late. You are not promised even the next minute. Do it now
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@@perryfroze Why Your God Did Not Accept the Repentance of the Sinners & Save his Son who Can do nothing of Himself ?
@@perryfroze so you also say a virgin gave birth to a child, ha? Hahahaha
Nicely shown how the pure honey will be . Good & interesting one. Will check when I buy. Expect more tips like this in future. Stay safe, blessed & tuned
Depending on quality of honey. Mine runs off nail. I took it myself from deep Kirirum mountain, Cambodia. After 6 months in bottle it turns deep dark - extremely potent.
Banada o baldan gonderirmisin
Very true.....its not the best way to find out wther its pure or not just by putting a drop on your nail.... Honey also depend upon season of harvest during winter its more thick than summer honey..
@StillJustMe
The one I got from a family member, who's a beekeper, is pretty light, due to the diet of the bees. But damn is it thick. It crystallizes in a month after harvest, so getting it runny is next to impossible without boiling it.
@azzu hahahahaha adam Kamboçya da yaşıyor
@@hamzakaya9615 goncer govim munur bane babi buta hahahah
Honey depends on the flowers and the atmospheric conditions in that area where the hive exists. Pure jungle honey of the Sunderbans area are watery type and not so thick.
Yes, your test is based on the viscosity of the honey. If the honey watery, how to prove it?
Yes sundarban honey was not that tasty
Just keep it in freezer, if it solidifies then water is mixed in it, else it is ok and genuine.
@@monza1234567 wrong.
Honey has tendency to cristialisze
Correct
Nice ideas but: you did not show the counter example. Also: Different honey have a different amount of water inside. Some really very good honey can be very light runny. It will not stick to your bread and flow down. Like acacia honey. Larch honey has quickly crystals like normal sugar as it contains little water. Bee die in winter if they have mostly this honey. I had bees by myself. When you feed them sugar for the winter then they add also things from the flowers and it tastes totally like honey. So sorry up to now I have not found something to proof if a honey is pure. Yet as I was working with bees I can quickly say because of the smell if it is a good honey or not. Normally people don‘t even notice a difference while I do.
Nope sorry it has to do with the temperature of the honey..not water content. Honey is sealed in the comb..with moisture content between 16 and 18 %. No more no less. The honey bees do this. 2% difference will not affect how runny the honey is. I know a lil. I have over 300 hives.
I agree. Depending on the season and what kind of flower is in bloom.
Get a match and dip it in your honey if it ignites when u light it ...then its pure honey since there is no water contents....try it. I did this every time i buy my honey....
Thankyou for sharing 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I can tell the difference because I grew up with people who raised bees.
Much appreciated! Labels tend to fib a lot and it drives me crazy! Example: Pure does NOT mean pure! Also, No sugar is not always the case! Propel says no sugar, but sucrose is sugar!!! Always read labels and learn the meanings of the words even if you can not pronounce them! lol. There should be a law against misrepresentation on ALL labels for consumer protection!!!
Did not know...Propel affects bloods sugar then. Oh!
Sucralose is poison.
@@patrickbodine1300 I never drink any sodas. Now I find this out. Ouch!!! I guess plain water 🌊 is WAY better than poison.
@@beverlycharles6534 Called tea my man, get some green tea. Kombucha also works.
@@kazykamakaze131Will try Green tea! (I've only ever drank it hot b4). I shoulda read the Propel label. 🤢 TY!
Great video!!! I have to admit, I was completely ignorant to them "cutting" honey! Thank you so much! Now I know what to look for. Thumbs up!
My daughter brought me a jar of flavored honey from Croatia, I’m pretty sure they added color and a flavor to corn syrup because that was the texture and had no real flavor . Probably why they added flavor to cover the lack of amber color. Thanks for the lesson it pretty much confirms my suspicion. I guess anything that can be expensive like olive oil and honey are prone to counterfeiting these days.
I'm from Croatia,and we have some good and high quality honey...but it all dependes where is it bought,in the supermarket or in local store?...it's not the same....
P.s.
Croatian olive oil is especially very well known as high quality product...
Olive oil from Istria and dalmatian region...
Greetings from Croatia🤗
@@janna7777the honey you sell on the streets is the fakest honey I ever saw,I drive through croatia and we r beekeepers its a shame of what these people sell on streets.Mandarina,oil and some fruits are great but honey its catastrophic.
Put some water on a white plate. Put a big drop of honey on the water. Shake the plate right and left continuously, like you are sieving flour. Pure honey should form a honeycomb structure on the plate. I trust this test more than any other tests.
I can’t wait to try that!
@@nanasloves great... correction.. you drop the honey first then add cold water. Sorry
Me too cos I sell it. The hexagonal shapes will be very visible
@@bolanleoyeyemi6026 EUREKA
the quality of honey is very important! thanks for the interesting video!
There must be a comparison b/w the actual fake and genuine honey. To see the difference between them.
The best test was the water test, though it's not perfect either. Honey does not dissolve quickly in water at peak quality. Few people know that honey will never spoil. I ate some 12-year-old honey that had solidified hard as a rock. I microwaved it a minute and it liquified and was delicious, never went solid again.
I feel like the only way to buy honey with confidence is to get it from your local bottler. I’m in Wisconsin and there are a few amazing places that are tremendous. There are small manufacturers all over the country, look into something nearest you and stay away from anything imported of produced by large corporations.
I ran all these tests to see if my honey was pure, turns out it was pure but ended up using it all for testing.
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The viscosity of the honey depends on the outside temperature as well just is the case with other fluids. If you place it in a cup of hot tea it will also dissolve and not sink and lump at the bottom. This video has many limitations.
You are too kind to a person who mis-informs folks.
Thanks for this. I am always concern with food quality nowadays specially with honey.
Thank you. Excellent. I try to eat healthy. A tablespoon of local honey daily is so good for so many things to the body. It's even in the Book to eat a little honey
See, this is the problem when we don't have the Dislike button. We have actual beekeepers on the comments telling us this test isn't accurate. But unlike before, we viewers do not have a quick way to gauge how accurate the video is, unless we trawl through the comments.
Well said 👏
The world just gets dumber by the day and UA-cam helped with disabling the dislike button.
When UA-cam removed thumbs down…it destroyed the publics ability to self regulate content.
I remember how that thumbs down button helped you understand the validity of its content. Screw UA-cam with all their censorship. There are many fast creating other platforms that will be an alternative source without sourcing from a system that maintains control.
Very clever n smart idea. Thnxx for share this valuable thing.... Big like 👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍
I actually had acne before and used honey to clear em up. Works like magic
The burning test is kinda silly way to test if it burns when you're putting it on tissue paper, something that burns easily on it's own.
Smart way is to burn the honey on the metal spoon and see if it lights up.
i don't understand this. all the substitutes burn too. the whole "Burn your food to see if its "clean"" thing has been dispelled many times now.
I laughed when I saw that one.
He should try that with some herion. He'd have a wonderful time!
@@darksu6947 HAHAHA "HERION" 🤪🤪🤪
Nice spelling dumb dumb 🤣🤣🤣
@@ronaldmcgasm9906 Damn autocorrect!
Honey is amazing. From nature…simply amazing.
Many many thanks for sharing the useful message.
Nearly all food burns though.. That's how calories are measured.
it's not always the honey test that's true. It all depends on the water content in the honey produced by the bees. If the water content is low, especially honey produced in dry areas, then the honey is thick. Viscosity is very influential on the force of gravity. Likewise, honey with a lot of water content in tropical countries, for example, differs in its adhesion and density with thicker honey. 🙏
The best way to know if your honey is pure is if your honey sticks with you (through thick and thin ); if your honey goes deep down with you to the bottom; if your honey goes with you all the way even up in smoke; and finally when life is turned upside down your honey shows your the right way up slowly.
that is deep.. I applaud at your speech.....
Sounds like a Pure Honey Relationship….😂
@@al5152001 😂😂😂😂
if you can smoke some joint with your honey, then it is pure one
Really Rohan? The word of the Lord is sweeter than honey. By keeping Christmas and Easter, you are worshipping the dragon Satan. Why not worship God the Father in the passover, Pentecost and feast of tabernacles that he said? Christmas and Easter are sins in Jeremiah 10:1-5, Revelation 11:10, Galatians 4:8-10, Ezekiel 8:16, Deuteronomy 18:10, etc. Repent and stop observing times (witchcraft) if you truly love Jesus our Lord.
As a honey producer, I can assure you that these are not tests for pure honey.
This vid would improve with examples of test effects on impure side by side!
Good vid!
It is sad that one even has to make a test for whether it's real and not.
Exactly. Not even honey is safe from being corrupted.
It's real simple you cannot trust humans to be honest when it comes to making money, or keeping promises. Governments cannot be trusted at all because the government is made up of Lying, Greedy money grubbing politicians.
Even honey pots tell lies these end of days.
You can thank the Chinese for that
@@TTime685 Thank the Chinese?
OK, but I hope the grocery store won’t mind me opening a jar or two of honey to run these tests in their store.
Do you all know that pure honey does not freeze in the freezer..if it freezes then it is adulterated. Put a small amount of honey in a cup and put it in the freezer compartment of the fridge..pure honey will stay liquid even after few hours or days.
heat can change the viscosity of the honey. Doing these tests on a warmer to hot weather will make any honey fail most of the tests
Excellent. The only thing I’d do differently is have a side by side os impure and pure honey.
This is true but not 100% right. Honey collected from wild bees may have higher eater content and doesn't pass this test eventhough it is not adulterated.
Beautiful music.
Thank you Nature about the good lesson to check on honey. The other way I do know is a little bit hard
I’ve had runny honey right out of the hive. Sometimes it’s thin.
buy raw honey guys it's much healthier. most honey you find in supermarkets is heat treated thus greatly reducing it's nutritional benefit
I tried the burning one but was not sure whether it was the tissue that was burning or the honey..
Well... If the tissue was still burning, it was probably pure honey as they usually add water/dilute the honey. As a reason of it, the tissue becomes wet and therefore not burn.
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Let me tell you as a food safety chemist, these are nice party tricks, but nothing else. To differentiate real from fake honey, you need sophisticate laboratory instrumentation.
My method is to dip a matchstick head in it and ignite the match as usual. If it sparks and burns, then it is pure honey. I consider this the fastest and most accurate test. Anyways, thanks for this video. 😊👍
Another commenter said the same thing 👌🏼 will have to make sure I have a packet of matches on me while purchasing honey from now on 😂✊🏼
From my experience hunting for wild honey in the mountains there are always difference in viscosity and moisture due to weather and age of the hive..
The younger the hive the more moisture it has and not that viscous and some even have foaming when the comb was pressed.
Great sharing 💖💕💕💕 very informative 🏵️🏵️🏵️
these are very old methods...The Test you did can paas by any thick sugar syrup.. so Its doesn't works at all now...
Claims about adulterated honey were tested in Australia several years back, and found almost no evidence of adulterated honey in shops. So while this is widely believed, it isn't necessarily true.
Choice Magazine prompted the investigation but the national regulator disputed the claims and maintains that the test used is not sufficiently accurate to be valid. (cant recall what it was offhand).
Shooting from the hip, it looks to me that these 'tests' in the video prove nothing. Not least because this can only work if you already have samples of known 'pure' honey, and 'adulterated honey', and that appears to not be the case. Note that exactly what 'adulterated honey' means, is not known anyway; it could mean many different things, so it is not as if there are only two possible samples.
We can find original Honey only by test it in a lab otherwise we cannot find it original or not .
Ya aniline test. I did for my research.
I bought 4 small glasses of Spanish honey. The first glas was soft and easy to use on your bred. Very nice in my cop of tea also. But the other 3 glasses has crystallized and is of corse hard. The seller told me to warm it up and stir around so it becomes more soft again. 1 time should be enough they said. Mine is with lavender and one with orange flower. They do taste awsome they really do, but it is some work when you open a new glass. The first glas I bought was soft. They are very expensive. 10 dollars for one little glas.🥴
It sounds like you're enjoying some really unique and flavorful honey! The crystallization process is completely natural and actually shows that the honey is pure and free of additives. The lavender and orange flower flavors must add such an interesting twist to your tea and bread. It’s a bit of a hassle when the honey hardens, but the method the seller suggested (warming it up and stirring) should definitely help bring it back to a smooth consistency.
Since it's quite an investment at $10 per jar, it’s understandable you want to make the most of it! One trick to prevent crystallization from happening too fast is to store the honey in a warm, dry place. The warmer temperature helps keep it in a liquid form longer. But if it does crystallize again, just pop it in a warm water bath for a little while.
It sounds like the flavors make it worth the extra work, though!
@@Natureflowers Thank you.Yes, it taste fantastic.I do keep them in cupboard.Dark and dry. My oncle were a bee Honey makers when he was younger, The flavour were Borring compared to. Now I love sandwich with honey or a t- spoon in my tea.😋
Why not do a side by side comparison,,, was it hard to find artificial honey?
Side by side you should have also shown the duplicate one.
True
True but duplicate ones might not have similar characteristics.
Unfortunately most of these are easily debunked as valid tests for “pure” honey.
Yeah, a lady gave me a quart fresh from her hives and it seemed thin but was delicious. In a week or 2, it soured, so they harvested it 2-3 weeks too early. It was pure, but not dry enough to harvest.
Kinda nice but the only full proof test of honey is true chemical analysis of component. Honey comes with different MC level based on season of harvest and nectar sucked. High moisture content honey (20 and above) will run fast upward in the jar.
Great video guys but I would have loved a comparison side-by-side honey versus not honey, in every test :) you would’ve had me from the get go..
I bought local honey for the first and I’ll never go back to store bought honey. Pure honey has a different taste and different colors. I did learn that as well. But very cool video though!👍 God Bless Everybody in the comments and to you as well! 🙏🙏🙏
All these tips are related to the density...
Some Chinese wax is being used also to fool people in the name of pure honey
Yes you are correct, using Chinese wax even dabur(honey) succeed in this short way.
Yeah not so much. You can dehydrate honey and syrup by leaving it open in air conditioning for a short time. Beekeepers can also feed sugar or HFCS to their bees and collect it also.
The only and best sure way is to get your honey local from an honest beekeeper that only produces it the right way and at a fair price. There's far more small beeks around than you probably realize. Most not commercial sellers but have some that they let go of every season to help pay for the habit of keeping bees.
Many companies have gotten away with making many of the food products as denatured as possible in the name of profits.
Most people are clueless of the unscrupulous games most food companies play to the detriment of the consuners' health. That is why we must be conscious about everything we consume on a daily basis in order to make proper decisions in regards to our health and wellbeing.
The only way to know you have pure honey is to get the honey from the hand of a beekeeper you know personally.
The tests you show are not to show pure honey but to show honey that has a high moisture content. Pure honey can also have a high moisture content if it was harvested to soon.
We have two “bee keepers” in town, we get excellent honey! 🍯
Good 👍
You know, people may think fake honey is not harmful. But I would like to remind people that you don't know what is used to make it, depending on where it originates. Because there is a known issue with cough & cold type syrups being adulterated with things like propylene glycol type chemicals (i.e. antifreeze, which is sweet and dogs like it too). So many of our food products are now produced out of country, yet packaged here and we may not know where it came from. Thank you for this vid!
Very informative thanks for sharing 🙏👍👍👍
VEry interresting and useful channel, thanks
I tried these tests but but I was kicked out of the supermarket.
This is good to know. I take a spoonful of honey every morning for allergies. Fake honey doesn't quite have the same effect.
Try not use a metal spoon because it kills the good of the honey,try to use a wood or plastic spoon, better wood spoon.
This is total rubbish. It is not indicative at all. To be safe, just but locally produced honey.
A serious video would have a split screen, with each experiment done on the pure, and the non-pure honeys. That way, we don't have to blindly take your word. Has that even crossed your mind?
slaps forehead..." what was i thinking!"
I am a bee keeper, and I can tell you that not one of this test is reliable to test for pure honey, it is only testing moisture content. And honey from different plants gives honey with widely different moisture content.
Does pure honey necessarily crytallize at low temperature?
@@artuladhar8099 It normally does, you should never store honey in a fridge
It’s a real and good methods to check it pure or not. Thank you so much for posting this vlog.
Yes...tom thompson is CORRECT.......a side by side WOULD have been nice.
He forgot the main test which is simplest.
Turn the jar upside down.
Watch the honey in base dripping.
It should drip in 1 single line and not as drops.
If the dripping breaks up, then its a mix.
I am not a bee farmer nor an expert on the subject, yet I know that all of these tests are BS.
We have raw, pure, unfiltered honey as a result from a beehive removal from our home. We decided to keep the honey to ourselves (we asked nicely to the bee wrangler). I know where our honey came from and I put it in jars straight from the honeycombs myself and it would fail all of these tests since it seems like the water content in it is a bit on the high side.
Take what you see here with a huge boulder of salt.
Agreed.
Read all the comments, some say those test are nonsense.
Thanks for the laugh, not seen so much rubbish since I gave up watching TikTok
Simplicity is that pure honey is more viscosity,☺️☺️
Dont use metal/steel spoon it would destroy the honey!!! Use plastic or wood
Another way is this. Take the honey and pour about a 3-4” blob on a plate. Let it spread out. Put water on the plate just enough to cover the honey, and swish water gently back and forth over the honey. Pure unfiltered unheated honey will generate its genetic code immediately, you will see, all hexagon designs. Watered down or impure honey, the hexagon genetic code will barely be visible. A lot of watered down crap out there. No joke
lmfao can't tell if you genuinely believe that bullshit (which was debunked several times) or if u're a troll
FDA does this test when doing field inspections.
Thank you, ❣️✌️. I am surprised to see that it can be so simple , I love honey and I want to know better what I am getting in the market
Place ,,,
Ask the bee. The bee would be able to tell you whether it is pure or not.
Depends on temperatur and the region (flora and fauna)
It seems you don't really know the meaning of 'Testing'.
It is actually a comparative analysis.
And to do so you need 1) a threshold benchmark, and 2) a Control. The Threshold Benchmarks are pre-established parameters and you have defined them (cohesiveness like a drop on the nail, ability to burn like a fuel, etc.).
But where is the Control?
In this case, it should have been a fake sample of honey that clearly fails on the Threshold Benchmarks.
Without that, the entire video becomes simply a subjective viewpoint, a personal opinion of yours that may or may not be true under different conditions
You are correct.
Concentrated Sugar syrup reacts the same way
Eat only raw and unpasteurized manuka honey from New Zealand 🇳🇿. It is the real deal.
Or get your own bee's & ask them to share, it can be pretty tasty & it won't be store bought 😉
This is processed
The only original way to test pure honey is by stirring honey using a spoon in a glass of water,when stirring keep on checking on the inside part of the spoon.before all honey gets dissolved,a small layer of honey covering the spoon will have the image of a honey comb
I coolest test ive done is by dropping a tsp of honey into a quarter glass of water and swirl it gently. They honey inside will take hexagon shapes! Try it! Its so cool.
Also with pure honey…if you put a drop on a saucer and add just a little hot water and swirl the plate; the honey will form a honeycomb shape where the drop is and fake honey just dissolves.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a powerful analytical tool which can be used for authenticating honey, at chemical constituent levels by enabling identification and quantification of the spectral patterns.
I used to buy what I thought was clover honey from Meijer ( based in Grand Rapids MI), but it never crystallizes. 80 Oz. Square plastic bottle. It says it's from USA, Canada, Mexico, or Argentina. Walmart has half gal in round bottle, little more expensive, but it crystallizes half way through.
Pure honey, when placed on a piece of fresh bread, will make it hard and rough on the tongue in just a few minutes. The bread under the honey still feels dry. If the honey contains glucose-fructose syrup as an additive, the bread does not feel altered and is still soft. This is especially evident on fresh bread. In addition, chemical pencils do not leave a mark on the fingers if we smeared them with real honey. I'm talking about a special kind of pencils that have artificial graphite, which dissolves in water and releases a deep purple color. I don't know what these pencils are called in English, but they are often used by builders and technicians.
loved this video, next time use a different honey as a comparison, so people that have had little to no experience wit the substance understand from comparison.
The better way is if ants eat it, it AIN"T PURE. Thanks for the great video.
Bullshit. We have pure honey supplied by a mate - very basic extraction - no processing. The fuckin ants love it..!!!
The shop owner doesn’t mind when I do this! He just calls the police in case I might need legal help!
Thank you for your time and sharing this valuable information stay blessed
It would have been good to demonstrate the impure so that we could actually see it instead of only imagining it. But other than that, thank you for your video.
I might smoke some pure honey later.