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How to check the medical iodine at home naturalness.

Buying honey on the market or even specialized shop, you risk to buy cheap fake.

To check on the naturalness of honey, You can use some simple and affordable ways.

To check what iodine and honey? Iodine helps clarify, whether the nectar flour or starch.

1. Why add the flour in honey?
2. How to check iodine honey?
3. How to test at home

Why add the flour in honey?

This is to burden the product and give it the desired viscosity. This reduces the shelf life meal nectar and can cause fermentation product.

To avoid this, the product should check for the presence of contaminants. It uses ordinary iodine.

For the test you need the following products:

• a glass of water;
• alcoholic solution of iodine;
• vinegar;
• pipette.

How to check iodine natural honey?

It's simple. Pour into a glass of warm boiled water and dissolve in it the nectar spoon. Add a few drops of iodine solution.

If the water turned blue or bluish stains you see, you bought a fake. Do not rush to pour the liquid, pour into it a teaspoon of vinegar.

If you notice the characteristic fizz and bubbles, in the "natural" honey added chalk.

If you buy nectar on the market and plan to buy a large batch, can check the goods on the spot.

Until you poured a solution, pay attention to the bottom of the glass.

If there is sediment, then, Nectar added to flour or starch for density and weight.

Dampen a cloth with a solution of iodine and honey drip. If the stain will darken or Sino, it indicates adulteration.

To check, whether true or not honey, at home?

If the purchased product has been tested successfully in the absence of flour and starch, It does not mean, you have acquired a quality nectar.

Very often in the guise of honey can buy a lot of sugar. If you do not want to repeatedly go to market and buy goods, can check it on the spot.

Honey drip on the paper and set it. Quality products obvuhlytsya not and will not burn. If the mass became dark and you feel the smell of burnt sugar, this indicates counterfeiting. Probably, diluted honey or sugar syrup fed him bees.

At home, you can determine the naturalness of nectar with hot milk. Heat milk to almost boiling and drip into it honey. Якщо молоко згорнеться – перед вами підробка.

Check nectar for the additives by using stainless steel wire. Heat the wire lighter and lower it into the product.

Pull the stick of the stuff and look at the balance. If the wire is darkened or it was snuff, you bought a fake.