Honey Purity Test - DIY | September 2020

The market is filled with honey promising you that they are the best quality. But how can you be sure that what they claim is true?

Here are four simple tests that you can perform at home to identify if your honey is pure or adulterated -

1. Water Dissolving Test: Fill a glass with water and add a teaspoon of honey into the glass. Adulterated or impure honey will readily dissolve in water. On the other hand, pure honey will settle right at the bottom of the glass.

2. The Flame Test: Start by taking a tissue paper and roll it. Dip the tip of the tissue with honey. Light it and see if it lights up. Pure honey is flammable. But if the honey is impure, it will not light up as it contains moisture.

3. The Blot test: A test to see if the honey is diluted with water using a blotting or tissue paper. Put a few drops of honey on a paper. It may be absorbed or leave a wet mark on the paper. Both pure and impure honey will not be absorbed, but adulterated honey will leave a wet mark.

4. The Thumb Test: Put a small drop of the honey on your thumb. Check if it spills or spread around on your thumb. If it spreads then the honey is impure since pure honey will stay intact on your thumb.

Zizira honey is pure honey from Meghalaya. It has many medicinal benefits and can be the perfect addition to your breakfast!

You can get your hands on the following varieties of Zizira Pure honey -

[endrea]

I hate the times we live in. We have to distinguish fake food from real food. I don't even want to imagine what we'll have to to in the future

[nalasembeefarm]

These tests are only meant for viscosity not exactly for purity. Even Adulterated honey will absolutely pass all these tests if it's viscosity is high or thick on the other hand Pure honey will fail if it gets to absorbs moisture from the humid weather and got thin.

Pure honey doesn't mean only thick and high viscose liquid but also means free from heavy metals, insecticide, pesticides, contaminants from dirty hands, utensils, materials while handling, extracting, storing and packaging... Thank you

[GulzarYousaf]

Most accurate test to mix it with same ml of water, honey and Grapes Vinegar and shake it well, if it is not pure the vinegar will react with artificial sugar and will produce the thick layer of bubbles foam, if it is pure then the layer will be very thin and will only appear in edges.

[YJ-sgxu]

if honey does not spoil for thousaND YEARS then I can say it is 100 percent pure

[wangmary]

Among many videos like yours, yours are the best, especially the way of using tissu papers.

[saivenkatesh]

You should have kept two bottles, one adulterated and one pure, then the difference will be there for people to see. This is the correct way of distinguishing between the two.

[LaaNa-eqhc]

When i bought a honey from shop, my friend said its fake or he doesn't really know if its real, he said fake coz i bought it cheap, real honey is pricey depending on its weight, and he's a farmer. Now i test all kind of test ive seen on youtube. All points out that my honey is real.

[aimexcellence]

I think the adulterated one in last case was very thin, they dont sell such flowing honey, they make it same in viscosity

[karansinhvaghela]

Kya ise Store karke rakh sakte he sir?

[praiseworthy]

This is not always true this method. It’s depend if the honey is not as mature, and he was collected when the frame is not completely closed by the bees . If there is humidity even in the real honey, you are going to see all of this that you see in the falls honey, this is not very accurate, unfortunately. The best is the laboratory test to be sure 100%.

[victoriafrancis]

You can't know real honey without lab test.

[jobayeribnkabir]

Those test are actually wrong.
Only Lab test can define honey is real or fake.
I am a Honey expert from Bangladesh

[libbywakefield]

My Dad knew an Archaeologist who ate honey that had been sealed in a burial chamber in Egypt. The tomb contained mummy, treasures, & honey. Of course it was "candied" rock hard. They put vessel containing honey it hot water and melted it down. They no are it on biscuits for breakfast the next morning. True story and amazing huh?

[zainua]

I did all these tests on real honey from beehive, and they all failed

[poppyflorist]

Fake... this only is related to moisture in honey. Every region has different moisture content in honey.

[dontan]

Never use a metal spoon or ruler to scoop from bottle, metal will destroy the properties of honey.

[hueyiroquois]

I did some of these tests on the cheap honey sold at a dollar store, and, oddly enough, it seems to be real honey.

[radhabhaav]

What food checking departments are doing, if this also we have to do?

[henthust]

Even easier method. Just smear the honey onto your arms and face, then take a walk past a bee-hive.
If you hear the bees laughing, then the honey is fake.
If the bees attack, then you have a real thing.

Just don't run towards me with your stinging entourage 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[jyotidevi]

You know something is seriously wrong with the food system when we have to pay extra for poison free food.