"Brother Yi, how can you tell the difference between wild honey and fake honey?"

The sheep is very concerned about this problem, and she has suffered a loss.

"How to tell the difference..."

Li Yi thought for a while and said with a smile: "To be honest, it's really not easy to distinguish, because honey is actually not too technical, and if you want to fake it, you can make it so that people can't see it."

There are generally three kinds of fake honey on the market, namely concentrated honey, blended honey and fake honey.

Concentrated honey is the concentration of real honey with ultra-high water content by using concentrating equipment.

This kind of honey is no different from real honey in appearance, but the nutritional value cannot be compared with real honey.

However, this kind of honey is still good, after all, the raw materials are still mainly real honey.

The blending of honey is relatively poor, and it is all used to mix concentrated honey with some rice syrup, beet syrup, fructose syrup, etc., and then add some flavor and coloring.

It's okay to eat this kind of honey occasionally, but it's best not to eat it often, because there are syrups and flavors and pigments in it, and eating more will make you fat, and it's not very good for the body.

The most rubbish is fake honey, which is purely blended with sucrose, fructose syrup and flavor pigments, and some counterfeiters will also use alum to boil.

Alum: As I said, it is harmful to the human body, and this kind of honey should never be bought. ”

Listening to Li Yi's explanation, everyone present couldn't help but be speechless, and the live broadcast room was also full of complaints.

"My God, people nowadays are so unconscionable, and honey fraud has played so many tricks!"

"Alas! Is there anything else you can eat? ”

"It seems that I still eat white sugar directly, at least I eat it clearly, and I won't be deceived."

"The state should really take care of it! Food safety is more important than Mount Tai! ”

"It's hard to eat something healthy!"

Li Yi looked at the barrage in the live broadcast room, and said with a smile: "Actually, if you want to eat honey with confidence, it is best to find some local bee factories and buy that kind of farmed honey."

Although that kind of honey will also be fed with sugar to increase the yield, it is a serious honey. ”

When the sheep heard this, he shook his head and sighed: "We are usually so busy with work, even if it is a holiday, there is not enough rest time, how can we go to the suburbs to find honey to buy?" Alas! It's so hard! ”

"Actually, you can go to the supermarket and buy it."

Li Yi said with a smile: "As long as you know to take a look at the ingredient list, generally there is only honey on the ingredient list, which is basically concentrated honey."

It's best not to buy more than two ingredients, which are basically blended. ”

As he spoke, he paused before sighing: "To be honest, as long as it is not wild honey, the so-called health care effect is almost the same." ”

Zhao Jinmai looked at the beehive in his hand and couldn't help asking, "Then how did you buy this wild honey?" How can we buy it if we want to? ”

"You can only find a channel."

Li Yi explained: "If you can find a channel that can contact the place of origin, it is best to contact the bee picker directly, and what you can buy is basically wild honey."

But if you change hands one or two, it's dangerous. ”

Listening to his words, the sheep shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, I will honestly buy farmed honey for sugar feeding in the future, wild honey can't afford to play!" ”

Seeing this, Li Yi smiled and handed her a piece of wrapped beehive: "Give you a piece, and I should establish a standard for you!" ”

"Really?"

The sheep was flattered: "Thank you! Thank you so much! ”

Li Yi reminded: "You go back and smell it, taste it, see its structure clearly, and establish a concept of pure wild honey, and then you will know how to judge the authenticity of wild honey when you encounter wild honey in the future." ”

"Okay."

The sheep nodded, looked down and sniffed the smell of honeycomb, and was very surprised: "Curious taste!" It's very fragrant, but there is an indescribable smell, a little greasy, and a little oily, I can't say it. ”

Let her hold the honeycomb honey and sniff it around, Li Yi has already picked up the tray and sent the wrapped honeycomb honey into the steamer.

Steaming can completely separate the honey from the beeswax, but it will increase the water content in the honey.

However, the ones that Li Yi sent into the steamer to steam were originally intended to make invert sugar syrup, and it was okay to add some water.

After steaming for thirty minutes, Li Yi opened the steamer.

In the steamer, the tray was already filled with a tray of dark yellow honey, and a lump of gauze had dried up, and a slurry-like brownish beeswax could be faintly seen inside.

took out the tray and put it on the desk, Li Yi got up the pot to boil water, and instructed Zhao Jinmai: "Go and bring the lemons I bought." ”

"Okay!"

Zhao Jinmai answered, turned around and shouted: "Wu Lei!" Go get the lemons! ”

Wu Lei was sweating in front of the stone mill, and when he heard her shout, he asked rhetorically, "Why don't you go and take it?" ”

"Brother Yi asked you to go!" Zhao Jinmai fox fake tiger might.

“……”

Wu Lei shook his head, got up and went to the storage room, and brought the lemon.

"Brother Yi, lemon."

Wu Lei put the lemon on the desk and asked curiously, "What do you want lemons for?" ”

"Use citric acid to invert sugar syrup."

Li Yi explained, and then ordered: "Squeeze out all the juice." ”

"Okay."

Wu Lei answered, took a porcelain basin, and handed it to Zhao Jinmai: "Go and wash the lemon." ”

"Why do you want me to wash?"

Zhao Jinmai deliberately angered him.

"Then you go to grind the dough and I'll wash it?"

Wu Lei spread his hands.

"Okay, I'll wash."

Zhao Jinmai took the lemon, went to the faucet, and rinsed it.

The sheep followed, washed the lemon with her, and brought it back with her.

Wu Lei had already brought a juicing tong and a knife for cutting lemons.

When the sheep took the knife, he skillfully cut the lemon in half.

Wu Lei took the lemon and squeezed out all the juice in it with a tong.

Zhao Jinmai stood aside and helped him clean the lemon peel in the clip, and the two clips were used alternately.

They cooperated tacitly, and Li Yi was also busy in front of the stove.

He took two basins of water, poured them into the pot, and then scooped out two large pots of white sugar, which he also put into the pot.

Seeing that Zhao Jinmai and the others were about to squeeze a pot of lemon juice, Li Yi stopped: "It's okay, it's enough." ”

So saying, he took the lemon juice and poured half of the pot into the pot, leaving only a little residue.

Then he took the honey tray and poured half of the honey into the pot.

Turning on the fire, turning it to a slight heat, Li Yi carefully pushed the sugar water with a shovel.

"Do you want to add lemon juice before you start the fire?"

The sheep watched seriously, and it was the first time she saw the process of making invert sugar syrup.

"Yes, it is necessary to give citric acid enough reaction time through the rise of temperature."

Li Yi explained while pushing the sugar water and honey in the pot: "If you go back and try to make it yourself, you must pay attention to it, and you must not stir it too much."

If you want to be successful, it's best to let it boil on low heat and don't touch it. ”

"Why?" The sheep were puzzled.

"Because when you're stirring, it's easy for the unmelted granulated sugar grains to stick to the edge of the pan or to the spatula, like this."

Li Yi picked up the shovel and showed her dozens of cases of sugar particles stuck to the shovel, explaining: "If these sucrose particles stick to the edge of the pot or the shovel, do not participate in the reaction, and then fall back into the syrup, it may cause the syrup to recrystallize, so that the invert syrup will fail."

So, if you're afraid of it caramelizing, you have to stir it carefully like I did, and try to involve all the sugars in the reaction, so that the transformation can be successful. ”

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