Gutter oil, a thing that makes people hate it when they mention it, and its harm to people is self-evident.
However, there is one thing, which is dirtier than gutter oil, but it is regarded as a nutrient by many people, and they buy a lot of it at home at a time.
"Nutrients"
In the seventies and eighties, it was already a luxury to be able to eat and clothe warmly.
At that time, people didn't pay attention to balanced nutrition and meat and vegetarian combinations, as long as they could fill their stomachs.
With the development of society, people's living conditions have gradually improved, and they have become very particular about physical health and food and clothing, and many people have begun to match in the direction of healthy eating.
Some businesses have also seized on people's psychology and began to launch some nutrients for adults and children to obtain greater benefits.
And honey is one of them.
In many people's cognition, honey is a very good "health substance", and drinking a glass of honey water every morning seems to have become a "living habit" for many people.
Natural honey is considered a nourishing holy product, and even has the title of "golden liquid".
If there is a child in the family who coughs, the elderly will make a cup of honey water for the child to drink, which is actually the "effect" of honey.
There is no doubt that honey is indeed a good thing.
For women, honey contains a variety of nutrients, which can help women to beautify and maintain their beauty, which is also a very ideal skin care product.
After staying up all night, honey can help people recover from fatigue, because in honey, there is a large amount of energy needed by brain neurons.
Some people will also add some honey to it when cooking, which can also make the whole meal taste sweet and sour, and many people like this taste very much.
In the ancient West, honey was even considered a "gift from heaven".
Because honey contains a variety of vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals, which are essential nutrients for the human body, and can also regulate immunity.
In every sense of the word, honey is an out-and-out good, which attracts a large number of consumers.
However, as demand increased, honey production could not keep up.
You know, the yield of honey is very low, which simply can't keep up with people's demand.
In this case, some black-hearted traders began to do the "opportunistic" thing: cheating.
They would make a glucose syrup from rice, add some additives to it, and then add some chemicals.
In this way, the shape of the liquid can be changed.
The "honey" produced by this step looks exactly the same as real honey in terms of color and form.
But in reality, these things are dirtier than gutter oil.
Because the raw materials used by those black-hearted traders are basically "bad" rotten rice.
Such a "fake honey" was actually exposed by CCTV a long time ago.
CCTV exposed "fake honey"
In 2010, CCTV had already exposed honey fraud in the "Weekly Quality Report".
The reporter found that in many supermarkets, acacia honey is sold, but the price is very different, ranging from more than a dozen yuan to dozens of yuan per catty.
You know, acacia honey is one of the best honeys, and many consumers buy it for the three words acacia honey.
But in fact, the output of acacia honey that year was very small, and more than a dozen yuan could not buy pure acacia honey, and more of them were "fakes".
In fact, something called "fructose" is added to these products.
The name may seem lofty, but in fact, it is a fake raw material.
After that, the reporter went to a fructose factory to find out the truth of the matter.
However, when I arrived at the factory, I saw a very unbearable scene.
The production process of these fructose is very "unbearable to look at", and the broken rice grains and various additives of raw insects are all "raw materials" of fructose.
The production cost of this "honey" is only a few yuan, but their price is as high as dozens of yuan, and the "profit" is even more exaggerated.
Not only that, but some "fake honey" is actually only blended with raw materials such as white sugar, alum, and honey flavor according to a certain proportion.
You must know that if you eat food with alum for a long time, there will be metal aluminum residues in the body, which will have a great impact on people's health.
In addition to the mainland, there is also a large number of cases of honey fraud in Mexico.
In their survey, they found that almost one-fifth of Australian honey, including some expensive boutique honey, was adulterated.
Some honey blends also contain antibiotics, toxins or irradiated pollen, which may cause organ failure if taken for a long time.
So, how can we tell the truth of honey from the fake?
How to distinguish real honey from fake?
The most intuitive way to do this is to "see".
When buying honey, don't just look at the big print on the package, be sure to read the ingredient list carefully.
If there are some names on the ingredient list that are not readable, then we must pay attention and avoid buying this product as much as possible.
And looking at the color, in fact, you can also distinguish the real from the fake.
If it is pure honey, then its color should be a darker yellow, while the color of fake honey is brighter.
Because when bees make honey, the main raw material is nectar, so in honey, there will be a little pollen, which will also make the honey look more cloudy, rather than the kind of clear and translucent.
Not only that, when pure honey is shaken, there will be bubbles in the middle, and there may be a lot of them, this is because honey contains "glucose oxidase", which will produce unstable hydrogen peroxide after shaking, but this is not the case with fake honey.
If we have already bought the honey at home, we can actually use this method to distinguish the real from the fake, and we can also open it directly to distinguish it.
Dip a little honey on a piece of toilet paper and leave it for a minute.
If the honey on the paper towel is relatively round, and the paper towel is not soaked, then this is real honey, and vice versa.
If you find that there is fake honey at home, then it is better to "discard" it as soon as possible, after all, good health should come first.
Information sources:
Qilu One Point "Several Simple Methods for Identifying True and Fake Honey, These Five Identification Methods Are Worth Referring to" 2022-11-16
Red Star News "Doxxing Fake "Soil Honey": White Sugar, Flavor and Alum Boiled at a Cost of Only a Few Yuan per Catty" February 08, 2023
China Economic Net, "CCTV Exposes the Inside Story of Honey Fraud: Raw Worms, Broken Rice, Ground and Saccharified into "Honey"", November 15, 2010
China Jiangsu Network "Australian Survey: Nearly One in Five Australian Honey Was Detected to Be Adulterated" 2018-10-03