White sugar, brown sugar and alum make honey for a kilo of fake honey. The cost is only 5 yuan.
reporter Huang Yingshuai Zhang Tongshun Wang Yue
recently, many domestic media exposed the "fake honey" incident, so that some of the people who love to drink honey can not help beating a drum. Recently, in the streets of Qingdao, there are also many peddlers selling honey, calling themselves "natural honey". Are these honey true or false?
industry insiders told reporters that there was no lack of fake honey. On the 24 day, under the guidance of the industry, the reporter made use of water, sugar, brown sugar, alum and other raw materials, the operation of 10 minutes can be made out of the shape of the "honey", this "honey" cost per jin of 5 yuan.
market survey, street honey prices are much worse than
recently, some people in the streets and streets of the island are seen selling honey in beehives. However, the public reflected that they bought 10 yuan a kilogram of honey on the roadside bee farm, which had strong sugar taste and sweet taste.
22, the reporter came to the Wuyang road in the north section of Shengli Bridge, and five or six beekeepers put up tents and put beehives to sell honey. The reporter inquired about the price. A man selling honey said, "we are going to set up the stall every year. This is pure natural honey. Rest assured!" The reporter spent 10 yuan on a jin of Sophora of honey.
reporter interviewed found that the same is the Huaihua honey, the price is very different, some sell 10 yuan a catty, some can sell forty or fifty yuan a Jin. The people who came to buy honey came in an endless stream, mainly old people, and bought five or six Jin less, and could buy forty or fifty Jin at a time.
"I don't know if it's really honey. I can't see it." Ms. Liu said that she heard a friend say that Wuyang road has people selling natural honey, but she tasted it, feeling that it is a sweet and pure fragrance, and can not eat the feeling of honey.
there may be false
20 years old master Chen told reporters that some of the beekeepers in the streets of the island have no beehives at all, and a tent will dare to sell fake honey.
according to introduction, honey fake has a variety of methods, commonly used in commonly used three kinds: one is the use of sodium cyclamate, pigment and essence blending, more pigments is the heavy color of jujube nectar, without pigment is a clear flower honey; the second is the use of maltose, "sugar" impersonating honey, the counterfeiters will use boiled water will be Sugar is thin and honey is added to the honey, and the naked eye is hard to distinguish; another is to feed the bees with sugar or sugar on the night and to scoop out honey from the beehive for second days, and the honey contains a lot of sugar.
"even if you are shaking your honey in front of you, it may be a fake." Master Chen said, for the sake of false chaos, some counterfeiters are equipped with a honeymoon machine. In the evening, the fake honey is poured into the beehive wax board. When the customer's face is shaky in the daytime, it is mistaken for it to be true honey.
according to master Chen, the identification of true and false honey can be identified by burning honey. False honey is burnt on the fire. The foam is small and urgent and easy to break. The foam of real honey is big and not easy to break. 24, the reporter will buy honey on fire in Wuyang road to burn, and found that the bubble from honey was small and urgent, and it broke quickly. Master Chen said that the 10 yuan a kilogram of honey bought by reporters was nine times out of ten.
reporter experiment
interview, a person surnamed Wang told reporters that the use of sugar, red sugar, alum can be blended "honey". The reporter decided to carry out the experiment. On the morning of 24, reporters bought raw materials such as sugar, brown sugar and alum on the market. The production cost is: 400 grams of sugar, a bag, the price is 5 yuan, 500 grams of brown sugar is a bag, the price is 5.5 yuan, 50 grams of alum, the price is 1 yuan.
white sugar brown sugar alum = "honey"
first step, first put water into the pot, about 200 grams, ignition heating.
second step, then add sugar to the pot, about 100 grams, gently stir with chopsticks, so that sugar can be dissolved in water. Slowly, the water starts to boil, the surface bubbles, and the color of the solution is a little yellow.
third step, add brown sugar, about 5 grams, or gently stir, brown sugar into the solution.
fourth step, then add 5 grams of alum in the pot (first alum to be crushed) and stir gently. At this time, the reporter saw that the sticky sugar that looked mainly at the bottom of the solution, when the alum was added, was no longer obvious, the whole solution was glued and fused together.
the reporter will turn off the fire and reduce the bubbles on the solution, so that it looks like honey. After heating for 3 minutes, the honey came out. About 150 grams of "honey" is made.
later, the reporter also gave another kind of "honey", or the same raw material, white sugar, alum, water of the same number of the same, the same procedure, only a reduction of red sugar, about 2 grams.
people distinguish
, the reporter made two kinds of "honey", plus the "honey" purchased in Wuyang Road, the reporter put three kinds of "honey" from left to right in turn on the table, No. 1 is the first "honey" made by reporters, No. 2 is the honey purchased by reporters on the road, and the No. 3 is reporter second "Honey". The reporter decided to invite some citizens to distinguish the true and false of the 3 kinds of honey.
6 people are willing to buy "honey"
reporter invites 10 citizens to participate in the identification of the "honey" that has not been told in advance.
first, let the 10 people distinguish from the visual sense, after 10 people pass through the viewing, the result all thinks these three kinds of honey are like real honey. No. 1, because the color is deep, some people think it is jujube nectar. No. 2, because the color is the lightest, some people think it is locust honey. No. 3 is between 1 and 2, and some people think it is rape honey.
later, the reporter asked 10 people to pick chopsticks to distinguish the true and false of honey. 7 people agree that the quality of No. 1 "honey" is the best, because No. 1 "honey" with chopsticks picked up to feel very thick honey, can be sucked into silk, No. 2 "honey" like water, choose not to pick up, the quality is not good, No. 3 "honey" quality is generally.
3 other citizens said it was hard to judge. Some people thought that the 1 "honey" was too thick and "not very normal".
experiment finally, if these 10 people are bought, 6 of them will be willing to pay for the 1 "honey".
industry analysis
24 days, the reporter told the results of the experiment, Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang said that the "honey" only used one of the blending techniques, "honey" after blending, can also join the honey essence, so it is more realistic.
a Jin cost only 5 yuan, but also lower
"blending 'honey" is not a secret, which can greatly save the cost, you made two kinds, each of about 150 grams. In this 150 gram 'honey', the sugar is about 25 Fen, the red sugar and the alum are about 20 Fen, the cost is only 50 Fen, and the cost of making a catty is only five yuan. It's much less expensive than real honey. " Mr. Wang said. "
" in fact, in this way, the brown sugar can also be replaced by soy sauce, sugar can also be replaced by sugar, which can save some cost. The insiders said Mr. Wang, now because of sugar, sugar prices rose sharply, most counterfeiters have abandoned sugar instead of sugar syrup, or the profit space is limited.
, however, Mr. Wang said that the role of alum in making fake honey is that it can be fully bonded and will not precipitate. But alum is harmful to human body and can damage the nervous system of human body.
remind
less than 15 yuan a jin of such honey do not buy
Qingdao Gui Hua Bee Industry Co., Ltd. for 20 years in the honey industry, 24 days, she gave a reporter an account, a jin of honey is also a minimum cost of 15 yuan. "Some supermarkets now sell honey at a price of more than ten yuan per catty, most of which are not real honey." Ms. Yan said: "supermarkets sell honey, the cost of the light is about 30% of the price, plus 10% of the promotion of artificial fees, 10% of the packaging and transportation costs, that is to say that more than ten yuan a jin of pure honey costs only 5 yuan. It's impossible. The production of honey is very complicated. The primary raw material should be dried through the wind to improve the beauty and then reprocessing. The lowest cost of the most common honey is fifteen six yuan, which is lower than the best price. "
Ms. Yan said, now the fake degree of honey in the market has come to the top of the fire. According to the traditional methods, such as color, taste, smell, and other traditional methods, it is difficult to distinguish one two. Consumers want to buy real honey, they can learn a trick.
"after buying a transparent bottle of honey, the honey bottle is poured over, the center of the bottom of the bottle has a depressions. If honey is dropping from a drop by drop by drop by drop by drop by drop, the probability of true honey is great, if honey is flowing down from the bottle, it may not be true honey."
Ms. Yan said, in addition, consumers should also pay attention to, do not mistaken that the crystallization is false honey. Honey put on a long time to crystallize, consumers should pay attention to the crystallization of the different, the true honey crystal is sand shaped, with honeycomb, and sugar crystallization is not like this, through this method can identify the true and false honey. According to master Chen, tell the true and false honey can be identified with honey burning, false honey burning on the fire, small and urgent foam, easy to break, the true honey of the bubble big and not easy to break.