Why Mix Honey With Vinegar: A Trick Everyone Should Know

17.01.2024 21:59

It is difficult to name more incompatible products than natural honey and table vinegar. However, sometimes this pair appears in folk advice.

Take this advice on board. We'll tell you why you actually need to mix ingredients.

Vinegar is considered a preservative. It is used equally in cooking and in everyday life.

Natural honey is stored well anyway, and is used exclusively in cooking or folk medicine.

It seems that these products simply cannot have anything in common, but this is not so.

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The thing is that with the help of vinegar you can expose an unscrupulous honey seller.

It is no secret that honey is often counterfeited, diluted or restored, trying to pass it off as freshly harvested.

In each of the listed cases, the beekeeping product loses its beneficial properties, but does not decrease in price.

How to check honey?

Take a small amount of honey and dilute it with water to a liquid consistency.

Then add vinegar essence. If you see foam and hear hissing in the honey solution after adding vinegar, then you have been sold a fake.

This will not happen with high quality natural honey.

Previously we talked about how to prolong the freshness of vegetables in the refrigerator .

Igor Zur Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor