2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Some of the honey we see on the market is artificially candied. However, people buy it because of the misconception that candied honey is quality. This statement confuses consumers and misleads them.
According to the chairman of the National Beekeeping Union, eng. Mihail Mihailov, beekeepers achieve the effect of forced thickening of the bee product by feeding the bees with sweeteners or sugar syrup during the period of honey collection.
According to the expert honey is easy to counterfeit and some beekeepers take advantage of this by putting a lot of things to sugar it artificially. Eng. Mihailov reveals that now the use of inverted syrup for feeding working insects was very topical among honey producers.
Some honey producers have acquired plants for the decomposition of sucrose in sugar syrup, thus facilitating its absorption by bees in the hive. This increases the sucrose in the honey, says the expert, quoted by MonitorBg.
It turns out that the natural sugar content of honey depends on its type. For example, if it is rapeseed or sunflower, it is dominated by glucose and therefore looks thicker. If the honey is from chestnut or acacia, the amount of fructose predominates in it and it is in a more liquid form.
The expert from the beekeeping union also publishes how to understand the type of honey. He explains that rapeseed honey looks hard and almost white, while acacia honey has a liquid consistency. The sunflower honey is colored yellow.
According to Plamen Ivanov from the National Branch Beekeepers' Union, whether a honey is of good quality or not can be established only after a laboratory test.
However, he reassured consumers by saying that in order for a honey to be allowed in our stores, it must have a quality certificate covering the requirements of the European Union. In his opinion, the main scams with honey take place in the stalls, because the people who buy from them do not have the habit of looking for quality certificates.
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