However, so much detail information of oligosaccharides is not necessary for the detection of honey adulteration. In fact, if only a certain amount of the oligosaccharides were detected in honeys, these honey samples could be directly considered being adulter- ated with starch syrup. Therefore, taking the oligosaccharides peak at 15.25 min retention time as syrup indicator, a simple, low cost, environmental and precise method was found for the detection of honey adulteration with starch syrup through high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with common refractive index detector (RID). During the whole analysis process, no preli- minary treatment and no any organic solvent were needed.