Is your Honey Pure?

Honey is the gift of nature with abundance of health benefits. However, the same is increasingly getting a scarce commodity due to decreasing bee population. With the hike in price, to maintain profitability there have been many sources that have stated sugar syrups are made artificially and are being added to honey.

With the growing concern around sugar syrup adulteration FSSAI [FOOD REGULATOR FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA] decided to conduct a check on the top most honey brands. After few weeks of the test, FSSAI has proposed new norms for honey which clearly implies that the test conducted showed that a lot of honeys sold in the market were not 100% pure but adulterated with corn syrup or Rice syrup like different types of sugar syrup. Earlier, the FSSAI norms didn’t have testing methods and parameters to find out the authenticity of the Honey. However in the recent years the FSSAI department have upgraded themselves and have evolved with standards and high quality method of analysis. The FSSAI Norms have changed as in previous norms there were no criteria on added sugar syrups. The Myth regarding the Purity Test e.g. water test method, burn test method has been cleared; these tests can’t detect if Rice Syrup is added in honey.

Awareness on choosing pure healthy honey has been implemented.