Stiftung Warentest
Discounter honey is so good compared to expensive alternatives
Discounter honey costs half as much as expensive variants-and yet they cut off well in the test. Stiftung Warentest has checked what is really in the honey.
Good taste and no contamination: Many honeyes were able to convince in an investigation by the Warentest Stiftung. As the consumer magazine announced on Thursday, 14 of the 24 products with the grade “good”, including some inexpensive own brands. For a particularly environmentally friendly honey from Germany, consumers have to dig deeper into their pockets.
According to Stiftung Warentest, honey is considered one of the “most -defined foods” and is often stretched with “cheap sugar syrup”. In the current test, however, the goods testers found no evidence of such pan shirts.
Honey test winner from Germany and Denmark
The honey of the test winner of the Breitsamer brand comes from Germany and Denmark and was rated 1.8. It costs 12.98 euros per kilogram. Good own brands of supermarkets and discounters only cost half, but were still rated well. Including Goldland from Aldi Nord, which is now no longer on the market.
Some honeyes advertised as “top quality” were devalued by the testing because they contained too little invertas. This enzyme provides information about the maturity of the honey and becomes less active when the product is stored too warm or heavily heated. Other honey was noticed by increased contents of hydroxymethyl furse (HMF). Although this is not dangerous, the naturalness of the food.
In terms of taste, the majority of the honey was convincing: 20 of the 24 tested products received the grade “good” and tasted “aromatic, vegetable or spicy”. Some were negative due to “animal” taste due to atypical, others due to significant foam formation.
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Source: Stern
