artem klimovich's apiary near moscow has 40 collapsible hives, and the beekeeper pours feed into eache. he mixes honey with water, adds extracts of medicinal herbs so that the bees do not get sick and can easily endure the approaching cold weather. and we pour it for our bees. one useful thing has been done. the absence of chemical additives in the feed guarantees the high quality of honey. the main indicator of its naturalness and maturity is the diastase number. diastase is an enzyme that the bee secretes with special glands when processing nectar into honey. the higher the number, the better the product. it depends not only on the nectar content. it also depends on the breed of bees that produce this honey, according to gost , the diastase number should be more than eight, our honey, for example, has a diastase number of 24. such honey has only one drawback - high cost price, which is reflected in the final price of the product. that is why many manufacturers resorted to a trick, mixing natural honey with cheap glucose-fructose syrup. how to make such a surrogate, artem klimovich s

artem klimovich shows how to make such a surrogate in his blog, warning consumers.e glucose-fructose syrup. and we add, well, let's add it one to one. the aroma is preserved, but this is already diluted honey. since september 1, such tricks, or even more, direct deception of the consumer, have become impossible. the new law prohibits manufacturers from writing the word honey on the label of a surrogate product, and it is now forbidden to distort its botanical origin, that is, it is no longer you will get sticky honey, for example, to issue sunflower honey. when roskachestvo checked the retail chain, it turned out that 44% of the honey sold is sold under the brands of the chains, they checked 16 of the most common brands of honey under the retail chains, all 16 turned out to be counterfeit, this is what forced us to prepare a federal law, it was adopted by the president, from september 1, honey must meet the requirements of two technical regulations of the customs union, roskachestvo specialists regularly check the compliance of honey with all standards, they take sa