Why can't domestic honey sell in China, and why is it also cold abroad?

China is the world's largest honey producer, with a total output of 700,000 tons in 2016, accounting for a quarter of the world's total honey production. Many developed countries in Europe and America are China's trading partners, and China is the world's most important honey exporter. But the Chinese honey market, which originally had great advantages, has for some reasons fallen into the predicament of no one wanting it for export and no one buying it domestically.

People mainly buy honey at shopping malls, supermarkets, honey direct sales outlets, apiaries and so on. Some consumers do not trust the honey bought in these places and go to great lengths to buy honey at bee farms, watching beekeepers extract the honey themselves. But some say that the honey poured out of this honeycomb may also be fake honey.

Some people think that honey taken directly from the honeycomb must be real, so how could it be fake? The editor does not believe it either. However, if a beekeeper fed the bees sugar water and poured it into the honeycomb the night before, then the honey shaken out might be fake honey. When everyone has questions about agricultural products, they can consult experts on the Yunzhongyang platform, which is the world's largest agricultural technology Q&A website. It brings together tens of thousands of experts in planting and breeding, and every question raised will be answered within 2 minutes.

According to national standards, no starch, sugar or sugar substitute substances may be added to honey products. Therefore, some honey paste and honey cream currently on the market, these goods under the banner of honey, do not count as honey. Some people use preserved fruit syrup to pass off as honey. Honey costs more than ten yuan per jin, while preserved fruit syrup is only one yuan per jin. The price gap is huge, and it is really too hard for ordinary people to get good honey.

These chaotic practices in China's honey market have led to one result: consumers have developed distrust of domestic honey on the market, and an awkward situation has formed in which Chinese honey is unwanted for export and unbought domestically. Moreover, foreign honey basically has no substances added, and people cannot go a single meal without honey every day, so the different nature of honey also increases the difficulty of exporting honey.

There are 5 tricks that can help you identify real and fake honey:

1. Use chopsticks to lift the honey, and it can be drawn into a long thread. After the long thread breaks, it will automatically retract into a ball. Honey like this is top grade.

2. Drop the honey on a piece of white paper. If you find that the honey gradually spreads, that indicates it may be mixed with sucrose or water.

3. Insert a red-hot iron wire directly into the honey. If it is fine honey, after the iron wire is inserted you can see clear smoke rise, smell a floral fragrance, and when you take it out the iron wire is very smooth with no impurities.

4. In summer, after shaking honey vigorously, you will find a large number of bubbles in the honey. It must be left to stand for 1 to 2 days before the bubbles automatically disappear. If you open the honey bottle at this time and gas rushes out, then this is pure natural honey.

5. In winter, put the honey in hot water at 30 to 40 degrees, leave it for about 5 minutes, then use chopsticks to stir the honey 20 times. After letting it stand for 5 minutes, if you find bubbles on the surface, then it is truly natural honey.