Which honey is natural or harvesting, is the purest, real and fake can also be checked in this way.

Report- Ashish Kumar

West Champaran: Honey is said to have many benefits. It is used from food to medicine. In such a situation, there is good demand for it. But with honey also, like desi ghee, there is a big challenge of real and fake. No person likes fake ghee or honey but not everyone is able to get the real one. People are ready to pay more than the market price for real ghee and honey, even then it is not necessary to get the real one. Now the big challenge is how to identify the purity of honey. However, so that more and more people can get real honey, beekeeping has emerged as a big business in the last few years. Here people harvest honey. In such a situation, a question arises in the minds of people whether the honey extracted from the hive is good or the honey harvested through beekeeping is good. So today, along with identifying real and fake honey, let us also know which honey is good.

Master Trainer Shubham, who has been working on many things including beekeeping for the last 10 years, has shared authentic information on the purity of honey and the quality of honey harvested in different ways.

Honey harvested from a box is better
Shubham says that most of the people get honey from hives installed on trees and plants. It is very rare that people get the opportunity to eat honey harvested after rearing in bee boxes. Generally speaking, the quality of honey harvested in a box is better than the honey extracted from natural hives.

purity of honey is affected
According to Shubham, at the time of harvesting honey from a naturally planted hive, the hive gets completely destroyed. Due to this, the bees become homeless and they have to make a new hive once again. Apart from this, during harvesting, the larvae and pupae present in the hive are also badly crushed and die and their remains get mixed in the honey. In such a situation, the purity of honey is affected to a great extent.

Beekeeping honey is pure
In the process of extracting honey by keeping bees in the box, neither the bees become homeless nor do any larvae or pupae die. The best thing is that honey harvested by machines has full guarantee of both cleanliness and purity.

How to identify the purity of honey
Shubham has told some ways by which one can know the purity of honey in a simple and authentic way at home. For this, fill a glass with cold water. Now drop only 2-3 drops of honey in it. If the drop settles directly on the bottom as soon as it falls in water, then the honey is absolutely pure. If the drops of honey start spreading after falling in water or dissolve without stirring, then the honey is adulterated.

Pure honey freezes in winter and melts in summer. You have to take some water in a plate and add light honey to it and stir. If the honey is pure then when stirred it will form a honey comb pattern.

Dip the match stick in honey and light it. If the match burns then the honey is pure and if it does not burn then the honey is adulterated.

You have to take light honey and sand in your fist and mix and stir it well. If honey mixes with sand in the hand without sticking, then it is pure. If honey and sand stick to the hand then it is adulterated.

If you drop drops of honey on a cloth, pure honey will start rolling like pearls without sticking to the cloth. You can pick it up even with your fingers.

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