Honey counterfeiting: making fructose syrup from Rice
source: Ji'nan daily
April 28th news of the recent hundred flowers blooming, is also the time for fresh honey to be listed on the market. Reporter survey found that Ji'nan market honey products mixed up, street vendors will also sell bulk honey. Insiders say that honey is generally counterfeit, and the quality of honey is about 20 yuan per 500 grams, and the honey below this price is sure to be false. "Huaihua honey 10 yuan a Jin, buy some taste? I have been filtering and nutrition is not lost. I have been selling it here for several years. In the southern mountains, beekeepers set up tents on the roadside every spring to sell "natural raw honey". Reporters recently interviewed that before the humble stalls, honey may be "fresh", from time to time, some elderly people stop buying. A simple tent was stacked with large barrels of dirt, which contained a mixture of honey. There were more than a dozen hives beside the tent, and bees flew around. The stall owner said that his honey was produced by over ten boxes of bees, and jujube nectar and locust honey are now ready for sale. However, reporters found that there are no flowers around the road, even jujube trees and pagoda trees are rare. Where does this honey come from?
Wang Yizeng, chairman of Ji'nan Ji Quan Huangyan bee product development Co., Ltd., introduced that more than ten boxes of honeybees can not produce much honey, and there is not enough source in the southern mountain area. "Now and now sell" is not credible.
a number of supermarkets in our city found that there are many kinds of honey sold in supermarkets. There are more than ten varieties of acacia honey, loquat honey, jujube honey and so on. The prices of these honey are very different. The same 500 grams of acacia honey, expensive to sell more than 40 yuan, cheap only 10.9 yuan. Wang Yizeng introduced that locust honey is one of the best quality honey, and the purchase price of pure Robinia honey raw material is about 26000 yuan per ton, equivalent to 500 grams of about 13 yuan. If the water loss is removed and the cost of processing and packaging is calculated, the production cost of 500 grams of acacia honey is at least 20 yuan. "Ten yuan and 500 grams of locust honey is definitely a fake." "Now many honey is not made by bees, but is produced by factories. Our company has done a survey, and a large proportion of honey in the market is fake. Wang Yizeng introduced, in fact, from the production of honey, we know how many fake honey on the market. In the past years, the production of raw honey in the whole country is only about 200000 tons per year, and it also needs to be exported, and there are about 800000 tons of honey sold annually in the market. The fake honey sold in the market is mainly fermented fructose from the rice and then Decolorated fruit syrup. At present, the purchase price of ordinary honey is about 6000 - 12000 yuan / ton, while the fructose syrup is only 2000 - 3000 yuan / ton, and the cost varies several times. How does
fake honey come into the supermarket through inspection? Experts said that the existing detection methods are difficult to distinguish true and false honey. Most of the tests for honey products test only a single index of the content of furfural, fructose and glucose in the product. The counterfeiters are regarded as the standard of the product as long as the indexes of fructose syrup meet the standard.
[color=#FF0000] how does the naked eye distinguish the true and false of honey?
according to the introduction, honey will crystallize, and crystallization is the inherent property of honey. But most of the honey does not crystallize on the market (even the occasional crystal is abnormal), and a large number of uncrystallized "honey" also plays an objective role, so many consumers to identify the true and false. In addition, honey is not good or bad, and the more transparent, more clear is more likely to be "fake honey", because the pure honey is light, but it is made of fructose things very good. [/color]