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Is your honey pure? Do one of these 3 tests by Natural Cures to check if your honey is pure or fake.
Honey is one of the most popular sweeteners around the world. It is used in making different meal recipes and is often added to desserts, pastries, or drinks. The demand for this product continues to soar, which drives companies to make some modifications to their honey. Did you know that not all honey available in stores is pure? Some of them contain other ingredients.
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There are different honey purity tests you can try at home. If you have honey in your pantry, follow the steps below to check if it is adulterated or not. Some store products can be pure sugar syrup or may contain starches.
Take a look at the bottle and see what the honey looks like. Over time it will look like granulated sugar. If it is crystallized in the store, it means it is pure honey. If it’s liquid, you can wait and see if it solidifies. Placing it in the refrigerator will speed up the process. If it never turns to crystal, you probably do not have real honey.
Make sure it doesn’t contain high-fructose corn syrup or glucose. These two ingredients are added to honey to keep it from solidifying. Companies also do this to get more honey out of their batch.