- Honey should be in glass containers with a lid. The honey container should be kept in a cool and dry environment. The honey container should be kept at a temperature between 15 and 20 degrees. Better. It is not to put honey in the refrigerator, because the process of binding the honey inside the refrigerator is faster and the honey hardens. If the texture of the honey hardens, never heat the honey. Heat destroys the nutrients in honey.
- Do not put the contaminated spoon into the honey container.< /li>
- If you see that the honey is watery and loose, or its smell, taste and taste have changed, avoid using honey. be.
How to figure out honey is broken?
- In some cases, honey bees sit on poisonous plants such as azalea, which is poisonous, while collecting nectar from flowers and plants. The poison of this plant causes dizziness and nausea. Fortunately, this plant does not grow in Iran.
- In some cases, the spoilage of honey is due to the production of fake honey. Production of natural honey is time-consuming and expensive. Some people fake honey to get more profit. Honey counterfeiting is done by adding sugar and industrial sweeteners to gain more profit.
- Some beekeepers use sugar to feed the bees, as a result the produced honey is not of good quality and spoils.
- The most important reason for spoilage of honey is early honey harvesting. This honey is not concentrated enough and its juice is not separated. So the honey turns sour and spoils. The presence of more than 18 to 25% water in the composition of honey causes honey destruction.
- Improper honey storage: leaving the lid of the honey container open causes moisture to be absorbed and contamination to enter the honey container and causes the product to spoil. .
