How much is wild honey per jin? 5 tips to teach you how to tell real from fake

Everyone knows that honey is a good thing, containing glucose, fructose, various vitamins, minerals and amino acids, and it is one of the most commonly used nourishing products, so many people want to buy authentic wild honey. Sohow much is real wild honey per jin? How to tell real from fake?

1. What is wild honey?

Wild honey, also known as Chinese bee honey, hundred-flower honey or mixed-flower honey, commonly called wild bee sugar, has a long history of several thousand years in China. It is made by China's ancient bee species, the “Chinese bee”, and as early as the Han Dynasty it had already become a daily drink for people. The Chinese bee is small in size, with a body length of 1.3-1.5 cm, lives in tree holes or cracks in rock walls, and can only survive in rural areas with superior environments. The nectar sources it collects are various plants in unpolluted mountain forests and the flowers of wild Chinese medicinal herbs in the mountains and fields, hence it is also called hundred-flower honey. Wild honey is harvested only once a year, and each bee barrel produces only about 20--40 jin per year, so the market price will not be very low. Each barrel of wild honey will not have exactly the same color, it smells floral, tastes sweet and sour with a pungent throat sensation, crystallizes below 13 degrees Celsius, and feels sandy in the mouth while melting as soon as it enters.

2. How much is real wild honey per jin?

The honey market is now rather chaotic, and honey quality is also mixed and uneven. The price of wild honey is often affected by market demand, honey type, season and nectar-source plants. Let us first see what netizens who care about honey say.

1. Comment from an enthusiastic Baidu netizen:

2. Comment from bairuoyaofei:

3. Comment from a123123a who loves to laugh:

4. Comment from He Xiaopao Baby:

5. Comment from momo1936779278:

According to the netizens' accounts, the price of wild honey basically will not be lower than 100 yuan per jin, and sometimes it costs 200 yuan per jin. What is sold on the market at 40-60 yuan per jin is ordinary Italian bee honey, and the price of wild honey rises every year. So why is it so expensive? Because the output from farmers raising or collecting it themselves is low, labor costs are too high, and things are precious when they are scarce, so the price is naturally high. Moreover, sometimes it is not even necessarily authentic, so to buy pure wild honey you still need to find a real farmer beekeeper.

3. How to tell whether honey is real or fake?

Because the honey market is now mixed, many counterfeiting techniques are highly skilled, and many merchants adulterate honey to pass it off as wild honey, causing some consumers with insufficient experience to be unable to accurately distinguish real honey from fake. Today I will teach you a few tips for telling real from fake:

1. Look at the color

Pure honey will not be so transparent in color, and there will more or less be some tiny suspended particles, while fake honey has a bright color and is very transparent, generally appearing light yellow or dark yellow.

2. Smell the aroma

Real wild honey, or real honey, has a floral scent. If it has fermented and spoiled, you can smell a sour fermentation odor or an alcohol odor; if a relatively large amount of white sugar, malt sugar or starch is mixed in, it loses the unique aroma of nectar.

3. Look at the bubbles

High-quality honey has a low water content and a viscous texture. If the honey has not been processed, shaking it hard will produce bubbles, with bubbles both in the upper layer and between the honey, relatively uniform, and they will persist without disappearing.

4. Look at crystallization

Good honey will crystallize or partly crystallize in spring, autumn and winter, while in summer the upper part is liquid and the lower part is partly crystallized. Pick out part of the crystals and rub them between your fingertips: the crystal particles of real honey are fine and will completely melt, while the crystal particles of fake honey are hard and clump together, leaving particles that are not easy to melt after rubbing between the fingertips.

5. Taste it

Real honey has a relatively strong honey flavor and is relatively pure, and its sugar composition is also relatively moderate, not too sweet, with a slight sour taste in the aftertaste, while fake honey has more sugar and a relatively weak honey flavor, and when eaten it is all sweetness without honey flavor.

Use the aspects above to distinguish real honey from fake, and when buying honey you can buy from a trustworthy merchant.

Conclusion: That is all for the introduction to wild honey. I hope it is helpful to everyone. Do not store the honey you buy in metal containers. Usually, the best time to drink honey water is 1-2 hours before a meal or 1-2 hours after a meal, mixed with warm boiled water above 60 degrees C.