Honey is one of the world's most adulterated foods, because cheap sugar syrups blend in without changing taste or appearance much — so regulators lean on three independent signals instead: what's really in the jar, what the label claims, and whether the supply chain can be traced. This 2D companion drives the identical weighted formula as the 3D jar, drawn as a jar cross-section and a six-node chain ring instead of an orbiting scene.
purity = 100 − adulteration%
chainFraction = documentedLinks / 6
originPenalty = originDifficulty × (1 − chainFraction) × 0.4
trust = clamp( 0.4·purity + 0.4·honesty + 0.2·(chainFraction×100) − originPenalty , 0, 100 )
- Purity — as adulteration rises, the honey in the jar clouds and pales.
- Label honesty — the halo ring around the jar shifts green → amber → red as the printed claim drifts from what is really inside.
- Traceability — each undocumented step in the six-node chain goes dark and a broken-link marker appears at the first gap.
- A beautiful label cannot offset a broken chain, and a perfect chain cannot offset adulterated contents — the trust score is a weighted blend of all three, with a small extra penalty for harder-to-verify multi-region origin claims on an incomplete chain.