Is there any way to know if the HONEY is pure or not?

well i do not know any way but people have posted many ways..but ill tell you wht is perhaps the best way to know...just rear honeybees yourself and collect honey..tht honey should be pure enough for you

This tip won't be of help before buying but just in case you've already bought one, try to let a few drops of honey laying around where for ants to find it. If it's pure honey the ants won't bother with it. I haven't tried this yet cause I never bought honey because like you I don't know how to tell if what I'll be buying is pure honey.

As a beekeeper of 30 years, I have had some experience with honey. I have 400 colonies of honeybees in Ontario Canada. Most of the honey I produce is exported to the US. It is as pure as the bees can make it when it leaves my premise. However the Honey Packers ( SueBee) etc, will often Pasteurize Honey,stabilizing it for the purpose of adding up to 5% water. Additives can also be mixed in at this time. Most private beekeepers take pride in producing the best and purest honey. When you buy honey, you want pure honey also. Go to your nearest local beekeeper, take a pail with you and buy your honey pure and unadulterated. When you bring the pail the beekeeper will sometimes give you a better price. Or failing that, look for the beekeepers name and location on the label in the store. Do not buy the flashy labeled container that is used by Big Honey Packers to sell their diluted brand of Honey.

Well I'm not sure how you can tell if its pure honey either, all I know is that you should buy it from someone who makes it, and those are usually local people, who keeps honey bees and stuff. We have a friend who does that, he's a bee keeper, and makes his own honey, but I think he's retired now, he doesn't keep very many bees anymore, he said he gave most of them away. Most of the stuff we buy in the store isn't pure, like you said, its mostly water and sugar, and if you let is set awhile, it will turn to hard sugar.

hello..i have two years experience of drink pure honey . pure honey is not so hard to distinguish with, just smell it, and another way that's saying the pure honey never deteriorate while the impures never keep the same color and same smell with beofre as the time goes by. i ever bought one bottle of honey from a bee farm, i think it would be absolutely pure because the bee farm. but this still cheated me and it turns to bad soon. i put it on the kitchen about 10days then remember to drink some but the color of the honey has became green already, who have ever seen the green honey...ahh...

Well, this won't be helpful at the grocer.... but pure honey never goes bad.... ever. So if you have honey that has gone bad.... it ain't pure, honey! ;-)

If your buying honey at the grocery store it should say pure honey. I get mine raw at the health food store.

H[i]i Bebs, I have no idea how to identify pure honey when we are not going to get a sample from it..LOL! I just rely to my hubby about this...It will be great to learn from anyone about this topic![/i]

I've seen organic honey marketed as pure, you might try that route.

If the honey is so cheap then surely it is more of sugar and water. I don't buy cheap honey because I've learned a lot from past experiences. I am now buying pure raw honey from "Healthy Options". I like the Tupelo Pure Honey which are imported brands. It is quite costly but pure and raw and very good remedy for cough. I take one tablespoonful a day as antioxidant.

Try to get a spoonful and put it in a glass of water. If it dissolves it is not pure. Pure honey will settle at the bottom before it dissolves.

Like you I don't know how to recognize between pure and fake honey. As what some expert said pure honey would not freeze if you put it in a refrigerator. That's what I only knew. I think that knowledge is useless because you would have to buy first in order to check whether it's pure or not. How could you change it if the seller would just be an ordinary vendor selling around?..