Honey
Honey is the food product produced by the hive, relying on the nature of the flowers and plants, sweeping the fields and meadows moving from flower to flower to absorb nectar.
Honey has many benefits mentioned in the Holy Quran, and confirmed by modern science, honey is a food and medicine, nutritionally contains all the necessary nutrients for the body, and honey has great medicinal benefits, scientists have proved and research studies that honey heals a lot of diseases, Diseases before infection.
Ways to identify the original honey
If we want to buy a quantity of honey, we must make sure that it is pure honey, but the knowledge of the original honey needs to be known because of the similarity between it and the non-original honey. There are several methods used in the detection of honey and its quality,
- Honey color: The color of the honey is probably light. This indicates the quality of the honey, but it is not absolute, since you can find dark color honey, because the color of the honey is influenced by several factors such as the container in which it is stored and the wax used in the tablets.
- The purity of honey: One of the ways to identify the quality of honey is its color purity, and this is not conclusive proof of the quality of honey because some micro grains are difficult to separate.
- The smell of honey: It is possible to know the origin of the plant honey by smelling its smell, it may be the plants of clover, or trees Sedrao lemon or thyme and most importantly that the smell of honey free of the smell of sugar burned.
- The taste of honey: The taste of the honey is original sweet-tasting, soft texture.
- Use filter paper: A quantity of honey is taken and placed on this paper. If a leak appears to the paper, the honey will be foamed.
- Flow of honey: We take a quantity of honey in a spoon and put it in a bowl, if it is poured in the form of a thread and did not break down, this indicates the quality of the honey.
- Using the ink pen: Dip the head of the pen with honey and write on a white paper, if the writing appears pale color indicates that the quality of honey.
- Use matchstick (sulfur): Dipping the age of sulfur in honey and grinding sulfur, if it ignites directly and did not show signs of moisture on the lashes of the large is the original honey.
All these methods and methods are indicators of the quality of honey, and the confidence of those who buy honey is the basis.