Differences and characteristics of different varieties of honey. Types of honey and their properties: choosing the right honey for yourself

There are many varieties of honey. Bees collect it from different plants, because these varieties differ in color, taste, smell. Each of them has its own healing properties.

Honey must be properly stored and used, then it will bring maximum benefit. We will tell you how to figure it out.

Basic information

Honey is monofloral and polyfloral. Monofloral honey is collected from one type of plant: clover, sunflower, acacia, heather, etc. And polyfloral honey is collected in different places, so it is called according to the place of collection: meadow, field, mountain, etc.

Honey is dark or light, the color depends on the variety. Some varieties of honey become white after crystallization.

Immediately after pumping out of the honeycombs, honey has a moderately liquid consistency. If it turned out to be too liquid, then the honey is still unripe, it must be kept in the combs.

Sometimes it thickens and crystallizes. This is a natural process. The quality of honey is not lost. It may also become cloudy. This also does not affect its properties.

There are many varieties of honey. They differ in appearance and healing properties. Here are the most famous and common ones. They are on sale throughout Russia.

acacia

This is one of the most common varieties of honey. Acacia honey is almost transparent, has a light color. It slowly crystallizes. It has proven to be an effective sedative. It is used for irritability, nervous tension, insomnia.

Buckwheat

This honey is considered high quality. It is dark yellow or brown in color and has a tart taste. Contains a lot of iron, useful for blood formation. Improves blood composition in case of anemia, helps to restore health after a hemorrhage.

Clover

Has a transparent color. It has expectorant and diaphoretic properties. Indispensable in the treatment of colds, coughs, bronchitis, pneumonia.

One of the most common varieties of honey. Smells like lime. At first it is transparent, but after sugaring it becomes light yellow or white. It has expectorant properties, relieves fever. Effective for colds. Also used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and gallbladder.

fireweed

Fireweed is a plant Ivan-tea, known in Rus'. Fireweed honey is opaque, has a brownish-greenish color. When it is candied, its crystals become like white flakes. It is effective in inflammatory diseases, is a prophylactic against tumors.

Chestnut

It has a dark color and a bitter taste. In terms of taste, it is considered low-grade. Its advantage is that it is almost not candied.

It has bactericidal and antiviral properties, heals wounds, burns. Useful for diabetes, gastrointestinal diseases, as well as for heart ailments.

Donnikovy

Sweet clover is a common weed. But the honey obtained from it is one of the best. Has an amber or white color, smells of vanilla. Sweet clover honey thins the blood, facilitates blood circulation and lowers blood pressure. Protects against heart attacks and strokes.

Field

In color, it is very light or completely colorless. Relieves headaches, has a calming effect, relieves irritability.

Lugovoi

It is also called flower. The color of this honey ranges from golden to brown. Has a sweet taste. Differs in bactericidal and antiviral action. Strengthens immunity.

Forest

It is harvested in the forest, so it is environmentally friendly and belongs to the elite varieties. It is light brown or yellow in color and has a tart taste. Effective for the treatment of many diseases.

Mountain

It is also a very valuable, environmentally friendly variety of honey. Its color can be very different. The taste is bitter. It is a preventive and general tonic, used for many diseases.

There is honey collected from poisonous plants such as azalea, rhododendron, delphinium, etc. They call him "drunk". After its use, phenomena similar to the symptoms of alcohol poisoning (nausea, vomiting, headache) occur. They pass after a few days. But if you eat a large amount of "drunk" honey, death may occur. Fortunately, with long-term storage of such honey, its poisonous properties disappear.

It is best to take it in the morning on an empty stomach. Dissolve 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey in water at room temperature and drink. Or you can eat honey in a bite, washed down with water.

If you are experiencing nervous tension or sleep problems, shortly before you go to bed, drink a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey. Thanks to this, you can quickly relax and fall asleep.

Cautions

Honey does not tolerate high temperatures; when heated, its beneficial properties are lost. Therefore, before adding honey to tea, milk, boiling water, cool the drinks.

Be sure to brush your teeth after taking honey to prevent cavities.

Honey should not be kept in metal containers, because of this it can oxidize and cause poisoning. Store it only in glass or ceramic jars.

Some people are allergic to honey, it is contraindicated for them. Also, it should not be used by diabetics.

On a note!

Borax honey is an effective remedy for cockroaches. Combine borax (sodium tetraborate) with honey in a ratio of 50:50 and mix thoroughly. Divide the mixture into small containers and place in places where cockroaches are found. After a while, they will completely disappear.

Honey is often adulterated. This is a very profitable business, since the sugar used to fake honey is ten times cheaper than it.

In the process of falsification, manufacturers add molasses, sugar, starch, and flour to honey. But not only! Sometimes clay, chalk, glue are added to honey ... Such additives are harmful to health and can even be dangerous. Therefore, international requirements for quality control of honey are constantly being improved and tightened.

Honey is obtained from the nectar of flowers of honey plants, which enters the crop of worker bees; at the same time, under the influence of saliva, part of the cane sugar turns into grape sugar - the main component of honey; this honey is regurgitated by bees and put into special cells in honeycombs, which are sealed with wax caps, after some of the water has evaporated and when the bee releases a little formic acid from its poisonous sac into the honey (to prevent the fermentation of honey).

Honey is a product of longevity. One of the population censuses and subsequent studies of sociologists established that beekeepers or members of their families predominate among long-term residents (over 100 years).

As if everyone knows about honey. But not everyone knows that the body of Alexander the Great, who died during campaigns in the Middle East, was transported for burial to the capital of Macedonia, immersed in honey as a preservative.

But not everyone knows that different varieties of honey are useful and suitable for treatment in different ways. This can be learned from ancient handwritten texts, which describe the characteristics of many varieties of honey and recommendations for the use of honey for the treatment of various diseases, as well as from ancient medical books.

Good honey has a delicate aromatic smell. The aroma of honey is characteristic of this variety and is due to the content of various substances brought with nectar (120 names), among which there are esters, aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, carboxyl compounds. Honey produced by bees from sugar syrup without nectar impurities, has no smell. Aromatic substances are volatile, so the smell of honey weakens over time. The color and smell of honey depend entirely on the respective qualities of the flower nectar from which it is prepared by bees.

Light varieties of honey (acacia, linden, etc.) are considered the most valuable. The exception is buckwheat. At the same time, dark varieties are richer in mineral substances that are valuable for the body.

Rules for consumers who want to purchase high-quality natural honey:

• Honey must be purchased in stores where veterinary control over its quality is carried out, if the seller has documents confirming its quality.
• Honey offered in the system<<сетевого маркетинга>> with home delivery, as a rule, has an unknown origin. In such cases, falsification is very likely.
• Freshly pumped honey does not flow from the spoon when it is rotated, but when it drains, it lies in a slide.
• In October, all natural honey, as a rule, should be crystallized. The only exception is white acacia honey from white acacia, which has a mild crystallization.
• When checking by the organoleptic method (observation), it is necessary to know that honey must have a uniform consistency, have an appropriate taste and smell bouquet.
• It is preferable to buy honey from the manufacturer, and not from a reseller.
• The most preferred for purchase is honey produced in the area where you live, or within a radius of about 500 km.
• when buying packaged honey, hand-packed honey has an advantage.

Useful properties of honey

Honey is of vegetable origin, saturated with vitamins (, B1, B2, B6,, PP,,, pantothenic acid, folic acid) and contains more than 300 trace elements (manganese, silicon, aluminum, boron, chromium, copper, lithium, nickel, lead, tin, zinc, osmium and others), which significantly accelerate the metabolic reactions that occur in the body.

The combination of trace elements is very close to the content of trace elements in human blood. Honey is a combination of simple sugars (glucose, fructose), a small dose of toxins (pollen) and water.

Honey contains 60 times more vitamin A than beef. Honey also contains organic acids (malic, tartaric, citric, lactic and oxalic), biogenic stimulants (which have a positive effect on the body, activating its vitality).

Honey is absorbed by the human body by 100%, which cannot be said about other products. Honey is not only an energy carbohydrate product, but also a therapeutic and prophylactic agent that strengthens and rejuvenates the body.

Honey improves immunity, has a bactericidal effect, has an anti-inflammatory and expectorant effect, has analgesic and restorative properties, and has a pronounced anti-allergic effect.

Honey has long been used in folk medicine for colds. Honey reduces a sharp, irritating cough, relieves arthritis pain. Honey has a calming effect on the stomach. Honey also helps old people in maintaining health.

Linden honey

His amendment can be called a champion among all varieties of honey for its healing properties. It has a pleasant aroma of linden, pale yellow color. Quickly crystallizes in small crystals, crystallized honey of a fat-like white color. It has a sharp specific taste. It has high nutritional and medicinal properties.

Has antibacterial properties. It has an expectorant, anti-inflammatory and slightly laxative effect.

In folk medicine, it is used in the treatment of tonsillitis, runny nose, laryngitis, bronchitis, tracheitis, bronchial asthma, as a cardio-strengthening agent, inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, kidney and bile diseases. Has antiseptic properties. Works well for purulent wounds and burns. This honey can be used in the treatment of any disease, if there is no appropriate variety of honey used in the treatment of a particular disease.

Acacia honey

White acacia honey is characterized by a delicate aroma and pleasant taste. Fresh honey has a light transparent color. It crystallizes very slowly, acquiring a milky white color; honey can be stored for a long time in the form of syrup. Of all honeys, it is the most liquid.

It is used as a general tonic, as well as for insomnia, gastrointestinal, biliary and renal diseases.

sunflower honey

This is the main variety of beekeeping products in the southern regions of Ukraine. It has a characteristic pleasant taste and slight aroma. In liquid form, light golden color. It crystallizes very quickly, the crystals are large, crystallized yellow honey.

It has good nutritional and medicinal (bactericidal) properties.

Buckwheat honey

Buckwheat honey is mined mainly in forest-steppe and woodland areas. It has a high content of proteins, minerals, a very pleasant strong specific aroma and taste. The color is light brown with a reddish tinge. An excellent food and medicinal product. Compared to other varieties, it contains more protein and mineral elements, such as iron.

It is useful for anemia, for diseases of the digestive system, for liver disease, for the prevention of atherosclerosis and as a heart tonic.

Raspberry honey

This honey is collected by bees in forest clearings overgrown with raspberries. At this time, forbs also bloom wildly in the forest glades, so raspberry honey should rather be attributed to polyfloral honeys. But raspberries are significantly superior to other modos in terms of nectar productivity, and bees prefer to take nectar from it.

Raspberry honey has a light color, very pleasant aroma, wonderful taste. Comb honey from raspberries has a delicate taste and seems to melt in your mouth. Honey collection from raspberries begins in June - during the period of mass flowering. This honey is made from the nectar of wild and garden raspberry flowers. When raspberries bloom, the bees fly past other flowers of honey plants, not paying attention to them. This is because the raspberry flower is upside down. The bee, extracting nectar, is, as it were, under a natural canopy or umbrella and can work even during rain.

Raspberry honey is used for colds, as well as a tonic for beriberi, kidney diseases.

barberry honey

It has a golden yellow color, pleasant aroma and delicate sweet taste. Bees vigorously process the nectar of the flowers of the common barberry berry bush.

The medicinal properties of barberry and honey based on it have been known since ancient times. It is used as a hemostatic agent.

Burdock honey

It has a sharp pleasant smell, very viscous, fragrant and tasty. It has a light yellow color with a dark olive tint. This honey is collected from small dark pink flowers of burdock and burdock.

It is used in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and in dermatological practice.

Budyakovy honey (thistle honey)

Refers to first-class honey. It is either colorless, or greenish, or golden (light amber), has a pleasant aroma and taste. During crystallization, budyakovy honey becomes fine-grained. Bees collect it from beautiful raspberry weed flowers with thorny stems and grayish leaves - boudyak or thistle.

It is used for insomnia and the treatment of skin diseases.

Cornflower honey

Cornflower honey bees are collected from blue or field cornflower. This honey is greenish-yellow in color, has a pleasant taste with a slightly bitter aftertaste. It smells like almonds. It has not only excellent taste, but also medicinal properties.

It is used in the treatment of chronic skin diseases and eye diseases.

heather honey

It has a dark, dark-yellow and red-brown color, a weak aroma, a pleasant or tart bitter taste, quickly hardens, creating great difficulties when pumping it out of the combs. Not suitable for wintering bees.

mustard honey

In the liquid state, it is golden yellow in color, then, solidifying, acquires a creamy hue. Crystallizes in small grains. It has a pleasant aroma and taste. It has good nutritional and medicinal properties.

Pea honey

Pea honey is collected by bees from the flowers of thin-leaved peas, most often in the steppe region. It is transparent, has a pleasant aroma and taste.

It is used in the treatment of the digestive system.

sweet clover honey

Possesses high palatability. It varies in color from light amber to white with a greenish tint. It has a specific taste, sometimes slightly bitter, and a specific aroma reminiscent of vanilla. Crystallizes with the formation of a solid coarse-grained mass

It is used as a general tonic.

blackberry honey

Blackberry honey, bees make beautiful flowers of the blackberry bush from the nectar. Blackberry honey is clear as water and has a pleasant taste.

It is used in the treatment of colds and kidney diseases.

Hyssop honey

Bees make it from the nectar of dark blue flowers of a medicinal and honey-bearing semi-shrub plant - hyssop, which grows wild in eastern Ukraine, in the Crimea. Hyssop is specially bred in apiaries as a valuable honey plant. According to its organoleptic properties, hyssop honey belongs to the first grade.

It is used for insomnia and other diseases.

chestnut honey

Dark in color with a faint aroma of chestnut flowers and a bitter aftertaste. During crystallization, it first acquires an oily appearance, after which the crystals themselves appear. It has valuable antimicrobial properties. Bees make honey from the nectar of the bell-shaped white-pink flowers of the ornamental horse chestnut tree. This honey is transparent (colorless), liquid, but crystallizes easily and quickly, sometimes bitter. According to its properties, it belongs to the category of low-grade honey.

It is used in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, as well as in the treatment of kidney diseases.

swallow honey

It has a delicate aroma and excellent taste. This light yellow-tinged honey is made from fragrant nectar, a very valuable melliferous plant - swallowtail. In hot weather, the honeycomb honey thickens so much that it is difficult to pump out even when heated.

Used for insomnia.

pumpkin honey

Bees make it from the nectar of pumpkin flowers. This honey is golden-yellow in color, with a pleasant taste. Crystallizes quickly.

It is used for diseases of the digestive system.

Alfalfa honey

The bees collect it from the lilac or purple flowers of the alfalfa. Freshly pumped honey has various shades - from white to amber, quickly crystallizes, acquiring a white color and the consistency of thick cream. This honey has a pleasant aroma and specific taste. contains 36 - 37% glucose, 40% levoleza.

It is used in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and as a tonic.

Angelica honey

Bees collect it from the flowers of angelica officinalis. Angelica honey has a pleasant aroma and taste.

It is used in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, as well as to improve the activity of the central nervous system.

Melissa honey

Melissa honey is made by bees from the nectar of light purple or red melissa flowers, or lemon mint. Honey has excellent taste qualities.

It is used for diseases of the cardiovascular system or neuroses.

clover honey

Colorless, almost transparent, with high palatability, one of the best light varieties of honey. During crystallization, it turns into a solid fine-crystalline white mass. Contains 34 - 35% glucose and 40 - 41% levulose. It is characterized by a naturally low diastase number (less than 10 Gote units).

It is used in the treatment of beriberi, as well as diseases of the stomach.

ATTENTION FEEDING MOMMS! The use of clover honey with a lack of breast milk in lactating women can provide a certain service, since the plants that serve as raw materials for this composition of honey have a milk-producing effect.

mint honey

Bees make it from the nectar of the flowers of a perennial spicy plant - peppermint, which is why honey has such a pleasant aroma. Peppermint is widely cultivated and produces abundant harvests of quality honey. Mint honey is amber in color, contains a large amount of vitamin C. It crystallizes in small grains of light yellow color.

It is used as a choleretic, sedative, analgesic and antiseptic agent, as well as for diseases of the digestive system.

Dandelion honey

It has a golden yellow color. It is a very thick, viscous, fast-crystallizing honey with a strong odor and a sharp taste. Bees make it from the nectar of the well-known and widespread weed - dandelion.

It is used for anemia, loss of appetite, in the treatment of liver diseases.

orange honey

One of the highest quality honey varieties. It tastes good, and its delicious aroma is reminiscent of the smell of citrus flowers. Bees make orange honey from the nectar of citrus flowers - tangerines, lemons, oranges.

It is used for lack of vitamins in the body.

motherwort honey

The bees collect it from the pale purple flowers of the motherwort, or heart grass, which grows in wastelands. Honey has a light golden, straw color, has a light aroma and a good specific taste. Motherwort flowers contain a lot of high-sugar nectar, so the plants are a valuable honey plant.

It is used in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system and the cardiovascular system.

Rowan honey

apple honey has a reddish color, strong aroma and good taste. Bees make this honey from the nectars of blossoming mountain ash.

It is used in the treatment of kidney disease. Rowan honey, boiled together with rowan berries, is taken orally for hemorrhoids.

Bruising honey

Bees collect it from the pink and bright blue flowers of bruise or blush, a very valuable southern plant - honey plant. This light amber honey is considered first-class, has a spicy aroma and a very good taste. slowly crystallizes and has a thick consistency.

It is used for insomnia and respiratory diseases.

blueberry honey

Blueberry honey is light and has a reddish hue. Exceptionally aromatic and delicious. Bees prepare honey from the nectar of the flowers of the well-known low shrub blueberry.

This honey is used in the treatment of kidney diseases.

Sage honey

Light - amber color, has a delicate pleasant aroma and pleasant taste. Bees make this honey from the nectar of bluish-violet flowers of a perennial semi-shrub - pharmacy sage, widely bred in Ukraine, the Kuban, etc.

Used as an anti-inflammatory agent.

carrot honey

Produced from the nectar of fragrant, white flowers of umbellate inflorescences of a two-year cultivated carrot plant. Honey has a dark yellow color and a pleasant aroma.

It is used in the treatment of eye diseases.

There are other varieties of monofloral honeys. How many types of honey plants - so many honeys. And yet, purely monofloral honeys practically do not exist, and we can only talk about the predominance of some component.

May honey

This honey, collected by bees from the early spring flowering honey plants in April - May. These are hazel (hazelnut), alder, willow - nonsense, coltsfoot, violet, maple, bird cherry, dandelion, sage, garden trees and bushes, etc.

May honey is one of the most valuable varieties of honey. May honey has a golden color, wonderful fragrant aroma. It has wonderful taste and medicinal properties. Recommended for use in a variety of diseases.

meadow honey

It is obtained from meadow flowers: dandelion, shepherd's purse, thyme, thyme, white clover, mouse pea, sow thistle meadow bruise, wild mallow, St. honey plants growing in the meadows.

If this honey is dominated by dandelion nectar, then it is more yellow in color. Meadow honey is pleasant in taste, has an aroma reminiscent of a bouquet of flowering meadow herbs.

Meadow honey is characterized by high nutritional and medicinal properties. Differs in antibacterial action. It is used in the treatment of various diseases, especially kidney diseases, has a softening, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.

forest honey

Bees produce it from forest honey plants: wild fruit trees - wild rose, hawthorn, Tatar maple (black maple), viburnum, willow, linden and other plants - raspberries, blackberries, lingonberries, fireweed (willow-tea), heather, oregano, strawberry lungwort. It has many shades: from light yellow to dark brown. It is always darker than field. In terms of taste, honey is collected from forest herbs, is not inferior to meadow and field, but if it contains a large amount of honeydew or nectar from buckthorn and heather, its taste quality decreases.

Forest honey from spring honey plants (mountain ash, willow, fruit, acacia, raspberry, blueberry) is in great demand. This honey has absorbed the healing qualities of forest herbs and therefore gained fame as a cure for all diseases. It is used in the treatment of various diseases, and especially in kidney disease.

field honey

This honey is obtained from coriander, sainfoin, lavender, colza, sow thistle, budyak, pikulnik, gill, phacelia and cultivated plants - sunflower, rapeseed, buckwheat, alfalfa, mustard. It has a calming effect on the nervous system, it is recommended for headaches, insomnia, palpitations and pain in the solar plexus.

mountain honey

By tradition, mountain honey is considered more valuable among polyfloral ones. Collected in alpine meadows at an altitude of more than 1000 meters. Similar in smell to<<лесной мед>>, absorbed the healing qualities of many alpine plants and gained fame as a panacea for many diseases.

It is mainly used for diseases of the respiratory system.
Monofloral honeys, as a rule, have the smell of plants from which they are collected and are distinguished by exquisite, subtle, spicy aromas. Often, to obtain such exquisite reserves, various honeys are mixed. The aroma of honey can be weak, strong, subtle, delicate, with a pleasant and unpleasant color. With gentle heating, the aroma of honey increases.

The physical properties of honey - aroma, taste, consistency depend on the set of melliferous plants and the maturity of honey.
The quality of colored honey depends on the composition of plants, soil composition, climatic conditions (often previous years), and bee species.

Bees collect and carry to the hive not only nectar, but also any other sugar solutions: fruit juices, sugar syrup, pod. Clover

Special types of natural honey

tobacco honey

Honey, dark brown in color, with a bitter taste and an aroma similar to the smell of tobacco. Crystallizes slowly. Honey is obtained in the usual way - from the nectar of ordinary flowers. It is known to have weak antimicrobial activity. However, the nutritional and medicinal properties of tobacco honey have not been sufficiently studied by specialists, and for this reason this honey is not recommended for treatment and nutrition.

stone honey

Stone honey is a rare and peculiar type of honey. It is collected by wild bees, laying it in the crevices of stone cliffs. Stone honey of pale color, pleasant aroma and good taste. Honeycombs with honey contain almost no east, and in their appearance they are a single crystallized substance, similar to a lollipop. Due to the high glucose content, honey is slightly hygroscopic. Unlike ordinary bee honey, rock honey is not sticky, so it does not require special containers. It is well preserved without changing its qualities for several years. According to the place of origin (on a regional basis), it is called Abkhazian honey.

A variety of stone honey is also found in Uzbekistan, where it is collected by bees from dzhugara - a special type of millet. It is very thick and difficult to pump out, and after pumping it quickly crystallizes into a very dense, hard fat-like mass. Honey is white in color, with a strong aroma and pungent taste.

Powdered honey

Powdered honey is very rare. It is not hygroscopic and contains a large amount of glucose and melicitose. Bees collect such honey from such honey plants, it has not yet been clarified. And it has a powdery consistency.

poisonous honey

It is also called "drunk honey". It is produced by bees from the nectar of azalea flowers, mountain laurel, andromeda, Pontic rhododendron, hellebore and some other plants, as well as flowers of marsh shrubs - heather and wild rosemary. In its pure form, this honey is poisonous. Such honey is revealed by studying its origin and biological samples. 50 - 100 g of this honey causes headache, vomiting, diarrhea, pallor or blue face, palpitations, weakness, itching, sometimes convulsions. The toxicity of honey is explained by the content of the alkaloid, andromedotoxin, in the nectar of rhododendron, which has a rich, intoxicating aroma.

In Japan, bees collect poisonous honey from a plant called hotsutsai. Laurel trees growing in the Mediterranean climate contain andromedotoxin, so the honey obtained from them is also poisonous.
Bees collect poisonous honey in the Caucasus, the Far East and in some other areas. However, it is still not exactly established from which plants honey collection is carried out in each case. For the bees themselves, this honey is non-toxic.

Signs of poisoning with such honey appear 20 minutes (up to 2 hours) after eating it. In weak and emaciated people, this happens very rapidly: there is a rise in temperature, vomiting, skin itching, numbness, dizziness, loss of consciousness, the pulse becomes weak, thready (up to disappearance or slowing down to 50, even 30 beats per minute). The face of the victim acquires a transparent bluish tint, the pupils dilate, breathing becomes difficult, cold sweat appears on the skin, arms and legs hurt. This state lasts 4-5 hours.

Most of us, when asked what types of honey he knows, will answer - linden, buckwheat, May, maybe he will name a couple more varieties. In fact, there are many more varieties of sweet treats, and learning to identify them is an art that is not accessible to every professional taster. Unfortunately, this is used by unscrupulous manufacturers who sell low-quality surrogates under the brand name of a natural product. If you do not want to fall for their bait, learn to navigate the variety of honey products. And we will help you.

To collect nectar for just 100 g of honey, bees fly over 450 thousand km in total and visit about 1 million flowers. Can you imagine the scale of the work?

A little about the classification of honey

Sweet, amber-transparent, viscous substance with a divine aroma. Honey is often compared with ambrosia - the legendary drink of the inhabitants of the Ancient Greek Olympus. The source for its production is sweet flower nectar and honeydew, which go through a complex path from partial processing under the influence of special enzymes in the crop of a bee to aging in honeycombs.

By botanical origin, the following varieties of honey are distinguished.

• Floral - a product obtained after processing the nectar of flowers. If it is collected mainly from one plant species, it is characterized as monofloral, from different - polyfloral. Monofloral honey is determined by the main honey plant (acacia, sweet clover, fireweed, etc.)
• Honeydew - a derivative of honeydew or honeydew - a sweet juice secreted by the green parts of the plant. Compared to flower honey, it is a lower (technical) quality product.
• Mixed - a natural mixture of the first and second directly in the honeycombs.
• Blended is also a mixture, but made by people, to equalize certain indicators of natural honey.

A bee cannot be programmed to collect nectar from any one flower, it does not matter if it is a linden or a dandelion. To get monofloral honey, you need a large array of a specific flowering plant (buckwheat field, linden grove). This does not mean that nectar supplements from other plants are completely excluded, but the main flower will prevail.

When, for one reason or another, there is little flower nectar (rainy summer or, conversely, drought), the bees are forced to collect the sweet juice secreted by the leaves and stems of plants. In the flower product, the admixture of honeydew honey increases.

Among the polyfloral types of honey from the so-called forbs, there are:

• forest;
• mountain;
• meadow (field).

Forest honeys contain a high percentage of nectar from flowers of trees (coniferous, linden, maple), raspberry, oregano and other inhabitants of the forest. In the mountain - a lot of acacia, chestnut, subalpine forbs. Fireweed, bruise, sage, sweet clover, St. John's wort - the basis of meadow (steppe) honey.

In the classification of a sweet product, attention is often focused on the geographical location of the beekeeping farm. Knowing this, one can orient oneself in the main honey plants growing in a particular area, determine how ecologically clean the region is. The Russians are in demand:

• Bashkir honey. Linden, forest raspberry, fireweed (willow-herb), thyme, oregano, meadow forbs grow here in large arrays. This is where many varieties of products come from. In ecological terms, the region is safe.
• Altaic. The region is synonymous with pristine nature, ecological cleanliness, and the richest plant diversity. From here they supply forest and mountain honey, including the famous - fireweed, angelica, taiga.
• Caucasian. Mountain honey based on acacia, chestnut and subalpine forbs is famous for its medicinal properties.
• Far Eastern honey has an unusual delicate taste. It is based on the nectar of the Amur and Manchurian linden, Amur velvet, raspberry, lilac, hawthorn.

Brief description of 12 popular varieties of honey

What makes up the popularity of certain varieties of honey? In fact, there are not many criteria. Taste and aroma play a decisive role for gourmets who consume sweetness often and with pleasure, replacing sugar with it. Medicinal properties are important if honey is used for therapeutic purposes, as an ingredient in medicinal formulations. Not the last role is played by the price - inexpensive and high-quality varieties are sold out even faster than rare, elite honey.

acacia

Thickets of acacia, sophora (a related plant) are massively found in the south of Russia, in the Caucasus mountains.

The product is recognizable by its liquid, transparent consistency, not prone to crystallization. Pure acacia honey may not shrink for several years, but when solidified, it forms a white or golden yellow fine-grained mass.

The taste is light, not cloying, with a delicate floral aftertaste and aroma. The undoubted advantage of this variety of honey is that it does not cause allergies and it is recommended to give it even to small children.

Lime

One of the most common species, as linden massifs are found throughout Russia.

The color is light, translucent, after standing for a while, it acquires an amber-yellow hue. It reminds a little of acacia honey, especially when it hardens, but unlike it, it crystallizes quickly.

Its taste is soft, but pronounced, at the very beginning, a slight bitterness is sometimes felt, which smoothly turns into sweetness. It smells like linden (or linden - honey?), Which in turn helps to easily distinguish a fake. It is famous for anti-cold and bactericidal properties.

Buckwheat

Produced everywhere where buckwheat is sown. Pure buckwheat honey in large quantities comes from beekeeping farms in Altai, central Russia, Belarus, Ukraine.

Refers to dark varieties, in appearance - dark brown with a reddish tint. Crystallizing, it brightens, acquiring a dark yellow hue and a coarse-grained structure.

It has a recognizable, rich taste with sharp notes and a pleasant bitterness in the aftertaste. Due to the unique smell, it is great in baking. It is considered one of the best in medical terms. The authenticity of buckwheat honey is easy to determine by a sore throat.

May

This name was given to the earliest spring honey of the first pumping. It is produced everywhere from early flowering honey plants - fruit trees, primroses, acacia, hawthorn, peonies. A sort of combined "hodgepodge" in which it is difficult to distinguish the prevailing plant.

It is translucent in color, has a rather liquid consistency, but it should not pour like water - this is a sign of products that have not matured in the honeycombs, which can ferment over time.

The taste is very sweet, even slightly sugary, with a neutral smell. In comparison with later varieties, it is not so saturated, but a lot of useful properties are attributed to it precisely because it is the first.

Donnikovy

This is one of the varieties of white honey, the best combination of excellent delicate taste and medicinal properties (in the USA, for example, it is considered a standard). Pure sweet clover honey is harvested in Altai, in Buryatia.

Fresh honey is light amber in color, frozen honey is white. The color may have shades depending on the impurities of the nectar of other plants.

The taste is sweet, with a slight bitterness and vanilla aroma in the aftertaste loop. It has pronounced analgesic properties, indispensable for insomnia.

Diaghilev

It belongs to rare varieties, especially valuable for its medicinal properties. Pure angelica honey is more common in the northern regions, where thickets of the medicinal plant are spread over vast areas.

The color is dark brown with a reddish-amber tint. Sits down slowly, acquiring a fine-grained "greasy" consistency and ductility.

It has a rich taste with a slight bitterness and a caramel aftertaste.

Floral (from herbs)

It is also called meadow or field, since there is no prevailing honey plant in it, but there is nectar of many plants that bloom at about the same time, for example, oregano, thyme, St. John's wort, plantain, sage. Produced everywhere.

The mixture includes herbs, which in their pure form serve as the basis for both dark and white varieties of honey. When mixed, they acquire a golden yellow color, more light than dark. Honey from herbs crystallizes slowly, forming a thick elastic mass.

The polyfloral composition also determines the taste - pleasant, rich, often with well-perceptible fruit or herbal notes, but rather heavy, incomparable with linden or acacia honey. In many ways, the taste depends on which flower nectar was collected more.

sunflower

Believe it or not, this variety is one of the leaders in sales on the honey market. Firstly, due to the availability of honey plant, it is ubiquitous, and secondly, it compares favorably with an affordable price.

Like the honey plant, the product from it is characterized by a beautiful golden yellow color, which, after crystallization, darkens slightly, acquiring an amber, sometimes slightly greenish tint.

Pure sunflower honey is pleasant on the palate with tart notes and a fruity plume. You can recognize quality products by a slight sore throat.

fireweed

Another type of white honey from a plant common in Bashkiria, Altai, in the middle lane, Belarus.

Immediately after pumping, it has a light yellow color, sometimes with a greenish tint. Sets quickly, forming a creamy-white elastic mass, reminiscent of cream in density. It crystallizes unevenly, forming clots.

It is characterized by a delicate texture and soft delicate taste, for which it is even called "children's".

Heather

Not the highest quality, but inexpensive variety of beekeeping products. Thickets of heather are found in Belarus, the Carpathians.

The color of heather honey is from dark yellow to red-brown. When solidified, it forms a jelly-like mass, after stirring it regains a liquid consistency.

The taste will appeal to lovers of bitter species with noticeable tart notes.

sainfoin

A rather rare and valuable variety in its pure form is produced in Siberia from a plant of the same name of the legume family.

When fresh, it is very light, translucent with a greenish tint. It does not crystallize for a long time. The shrunken mass has a creamy consistency and a fine-grained structure.

The taste of sainfoin honey is pleasant, fragrant, with herbal notes and a subtle aroma of roses. Pollen, which enters the honeycombs along with nectar, adds value to the product - it enhances its healing properties.

Phacelia

The main supply region is Siberia, the Caucasus, where the plant is cultivated as a honey plant and can bloom up to 4 times a year.

Outwardly, phacelia honey is very light, transparent yellow, crystallizing, it becomes almost white with a greenish tint, its consistency is similar to soft elastic dough. Fresh, if you don’t know, you can confuse it with an acacia or linden counterpart.

Due to the large amount of fructose, the product has a sweet and spicy taste with light tart notes, heady aroma.

Every man to his own taste

Experienced beekeepers note that the best varieties of honey for everyone are their own. When choosing a treat, we are guided by our own taste preferences, and our body subconsciously strives for what it lacks.

When giving a tasting assessment, take into account the taste, color, aroma, texture of the product. In the aggregate of these signs, the leaders are:

• herb honey;
• lime;
• acacia;
• sweet clover;
• hyssop;
• clover;
• lavender;
• crimson;
• mint;
• phacelium;
• sainfoin.

Some especially appreciate honey, which retains a liquid consistency for a long time. This is important if the product is mainly used for baking, for other culinary purposes. Examples of such varieties are acacia, angelica, chestnut, heather, alfalfa, most honeydew varieties.

Sweet treat colors

The honey palette is surprisingly extensive and depends on the pigments and minerals that fall into it along with nectar and pollen. The main color is amber-yellow, translucent. But there are varieties, both very dark and light, which, when solidified, resemble white lard or cream. It has been proven that color has nothing to do with taste - there are many first-class products among white varieties, and, for example, dark amber chestnut, heather honey is considered low-grade.
The most valuable types of white or almost white honey:

• acacia;
• sweet clover;
• fireweed;
• clover;
• crimson.

Some less valuable varieties of honey products obtained from the nectar of rapeseed, colza, alfalfa, and cotton also acquire a white consistency.

Of the dark varieties, the most common are:

• buckwheat;
• taiga (coniferous);
• chestnut;
• angelica:
• hyssop honey.

Dark varieties of the product are considered not as tasty, but they are often more aromatic and healthy. They have more iron and other trace elements, proteins, amino acids, plant pigments.

Useful properties of different varieties of honey

Now we will say a seditious thing - it is impossible to determine which type of honey is the most useful. A real natural product, from the nectar of whatever plants it is obtained, has a similar composition.

It consists of 75% carbohydrates (glucose, fructose and sucrose), a small amount of proteins and starch breakdown products, organic acids, trace elements, vitamins. Experts believe that the usefulness of honey is determined by the enzymes that are secreted by the bee while the nectar is in its crop. The longer he is there (from 20 minutes or more), the better. That is why, the farther the bee flies for nectar, the more healing honey is obtained.

The value of honey is due to its chemical composition, which is very similar to blood plasma. Almost in the same concentration as blood, it contains magnesium, iron, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine, and potassium. It is no coincidence that this is almost the only product that is absorbed by 97%, and it is absorbed immediately, without needing to be broken down with the help of digestive enzymes.

Among the variety of types of honey, those collected from medicinal plants are considered more healing, since biologically active substances enter them with nectar. And also with additives of other bee products. So, the most useful honey.

1. Cellular. Natural packaging allows you to save a maximum of useful components, including propolis and pollen, deposited on the walls of the combs. These substances help to strengthen the immune system and the body as a whole. Chewing honeycomb is very useful for teeth, gums, oral disinfection.
2. With pollen. Incredibly useful for children, as it contains growth factors, affecting the endocrine system. Normalizes metabolism, stimulates the release of bile and other digestive enzymes. Helps cleanse blood vessels from low-density cholesterol.
3. Pine (taiga). Indicated for people with asthma, chronic bronchitis, prone to frequent colds. Well restores ability to work, saves from chronic fatigue.
4. Mustard. An ideal treat for colds and viral infections. Has choleretic properties.
5. Nardek. Watermelon honey is the best helper in the fight against influenza, bronchitis, and throat problems. Suitable for cores, help clean blood vessels, increase hemoglobin.
6. with propolis. The light bitterness that propolis gives to honey helps to cope with SARS and influenza, promotes tissue healing and body cleansing at the cellular level.
7. Uterine. Honey contains royal jelly - a substance consisting of 400 biologically active components. With the help of a useful product, they strengthen the immune system and normalize blood pressure, protect against stress and stimulate metabolism.
8. Zabrusny. This is the name of scarce honey with lids, with which bees close the honeycombs. They contain natural wax, propolis, pollen. The product is characterized by antibacterial, cleansing, preventive properties.
9. Bortovoy or honey of wild bees. Contains propolis, royal jelly, pollen, wax, very seasoned and useful. Recommended for cleansing the body of toxins, healing the liver, gastrointestinal tract.
10. Black maple. Rare honey from the Tatar maple, an analogue of the May vitamin product. It is shown to pregnant women as an antiemetic.

The list of useful types of honey can be continued - linden and buckwheat, bird cherry, almond, fig, cedar ... Enjoy a sweet treat and be healthy!

Honey consists of plant nectar and some components that come from the bee's body. It contains about 300 different substances, but the main ones are glucose and fructose. By color it can be of different shades and is divided into groups of honey varieties:

• light colors;
• moderately colored colors;
• dark colors.

Dark honey color means that the product contains more minerals and other substances and is considered healthier than the light variety. It begins to turn into nectar in the body of bees. From plants, bees transfer nectar to the wax cells of honeycombs. The bees not only collect and carry the nectar, but also process it in the hive. First, they produce honey from nectar, then they evaporate water from it, then it must be mixed in honeycombs and treated with enzymes. Due to this, the chemical composition of the product changes.

When the product is ripe, it is sealed by bees with wax caps. These signs help to determine it by maturity, variety and pumping time. If the product is not sealed, it means that it has an increased water content and contains a large amount of unsplit sucrose. Its quality will be worse and it cannot be stored for a long time.

If it contains more glucose, then it is able to crystallize, and with increased fructose, it will taste sweeter. Crystallization does not impair the quality, but when heated, the medicinal and nutritional properties decrease. From 40 ° and above, it turns into a regular syrup.

With nectar, various aromatic substances enter the hive, therefore it has a peculiar taste. Taste also depends on organic acids : apple, milk, lemon.

Product properties

Varieties of honey

For pre-sale preparation, it is divided into two types: centrifugal (popular) and cellular (useful). By consistency: crystallized (shrunken) and liquid. It happens very liquid, liquid, thick and gelatinous. The consistency of shrunken honey is fine-grained, coarse-grained and fat-like. They also differ in color and transparency, taste and aroma.

Types and their features

What is honey?

1. The May type of honey - the first pitching, has a philistine name. It happened in ancient times, when people lived according to a different chronology, that is, two weeks later. At this time, the first product was pumped out.
2. Monofloral type of honey - this is what is called when more than 40% of nectar is collected from one honey plant. Bees collect nectar from various honey plants.
3. - developed in a dry summer from sweet secretions of insects: a mealybug, aphids, psyllids. And it is also produced from honeydew (sugar substances of plants): linden, apple, fir, spruce, maple, hazel, rose, pear, etc. Its color is usually dark, but it can also be light yellow from coniferous trees . The aroma depends on the source of honeydew: it may be odorless or unpleasant. The consistency is viscous, syrupy, does not melt in the mouth for a long time. It is used by confectioners and bakers.
4. Polyfloral type of honey - produced from nectar collected from several types of plants. The name is depending on the type of honey plant: mountain, forest, meadow, steppe.

Varieties of honey and their beneficial properties

• acacia- it is considered that it does not crystallize for a long time. The taste is enveloping, floral, delicate, when swallowed, the taste intensifies. If the product is liquid, then it is transparent in appearance, and upon crystallization it becomes white, fine-grained and resembles snow. From yellow acacia it is very light, and when crystallized it looks white, greasy, its grain size is medium. It is used in medical practice for nervous diseases as a sedative and for insomnia. It does not cause allergies and is used in baby and diabetic nutrition. It has an antimicrobial effect and is used for eye diseases. It is used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and kidneys. With children's enuresis at night, the child should not be given to drink, but give him a spoonful of acacia honey, it retains moisture in the body and soothes, very useful.
• Heather- refers to low grades of honey, has a reddish-brown color, a specific aroma and astringent taste. It contains more protein and mineral salts, so it does not crystallize, but coagulates, becomes jelly-like. According to the healing and healing properties, it is considered useful and one of the best. It is used in diseases of the bladder and kidneys, it has a diuretic effect. Used in the treatment of gout and rheumatism. If you take it at night, then the dream will be calm and sound. Calms the nervous system and is an anti-inflammatory agent for diseases of the intestines and stomach.
• Buckwheat- the best grade, dark color, has sharp and spicy taste and aroma. During crystallization, it becomes a mushy mass. It contains iron and protein, thanks to which the vascular bed is cleansed, blood is renewed, damaged tissues are regenerated and the level of hemoglobin increases. Recommended for anemia, anemia and pregnancy. And also for those who suffer from gastritis with high acidity of gastric juice. Cures beriberi, hypertension, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism. It is used when there is a hemorrhage in the brain or retina, improves capillary permeability. Locally it is used for trophic ulcers, furunculosis, purulent wounds and many skin diseases. Useful in children's and diabetic nutrition, with nervous diseases it has a calming effect.
• Donnikovy- first-class, with high qualities. When crystallized, it has a white or yellow color, it contains a lot of glucose. It has anti-inflammatory, expectorant, analgesic, sedative, diuretic effect. Breastfeeding mothers are advised to take to stimulate milk flow. It is taken for colds, insomnia, headaches and for the treatment of respiratory organs. They treat rheumatism and cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and atherosclerosis. For purulent wounds and cuts, compresses with propolis are applied.
• Lime- the best sort of honey, transparent, has a slightly yellowish or greenish color, very sweet taste and aroma of linden. When crystallized, it becomes white, in its pure form it is rarely found. It is used to treat colds, as it has a diaphoretic property. Used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, gallbladder, kidneys and in gynecology. It has an antibacterial and antimicrobial effect, helps in the treatment of purulent wounds and burns.
• Lugovoi- first-class, upon crystallization becomes fine-grained or greasy. The color varies from golden yellow to yellow-brown, depending on the predominance of flowers. It has healing and nutritional properties, is used for various diseases.
• May- an early summer variety of honey, the sweetest, they begin to pump it out after the flowering of acacia. The color varies from white-gray to bright yellow, cooling taste and menthol aroma. It is well absorbed by the body, without disturbing the function of the pancreas, which means that diabetes does not develop. Recommended for atherosclerosis, liver diseases and nervous conditions. Honey has a calming effect.

Quality determination methods

Dip a spoon into the honey and rotate it. The immature will drain, and the mature will wrap in folds like a ribbon. You can lower a thin stick into it: the real one will stretch in a continuous thread, the fake one will drain and drip with splashes. Quality honey does not foam.

All varieties of natural honey have beneficial properties and are essential for a healthy diet. It differs only in appearance and taste, but the benefits are almost the same. It is stored in a dark place so that the beneficial substances do not decay from the action of light.

Varieties of honey

The medicinal properties of honey have been known since ancient times. As well as various areas of human life in which honey and its derivatives are used: medicine, health improvement, maintaining the health of young and old people, cosmetology, and also as a very tasty and nutritious food product.

Indeed, honey is the most valuable complex of all nutrients necessary for the human body.

However, not everyone knows about the types of honey. Actually, this is not surprising - after all, there are dozens of types of honey! But it is necessary to know the brief characteristics of individual types of honey not only in order to expand your horizons, but also for its correct use, since each type of honey has its own compositional characteristics. The scope of a particular type and variety of honey depends on the composition.

Let's take a short trip to the land of honey. Each type of honey has its own color, its own texture, characteristic features.

Types of flower honey

• Honey collected from plants of one species is called monofloral, and its name comes from the name of this plant (lime, buckwheat, acacia).
• Collected from several types of plants, honey is called polyfloral (or prefabricated flower); its name in this case comes from the place where the honey was collected (mountain, field, forest).

So, the most widespread types of honey, depending on the plant from which it was collected, and their brief characteristics:

• Acacia honey - is used mainly as a tonic and sedative, for nervous diseases and insomnia. It is considered one of the most useful varieties. The honey itself is very light and transparent, crystallization occurs slowly. It has a delicate aroma and delicate taste.
• Hawthorn honey - useful for tachycardia, heart disease and hypertension, with an increase in thyroid function. The taste is bitter, the aroma is specific. Dark honey.
• Buckwheat honey is most useful for anemia, because it contains a large amount of iron. It also contains a large amount of vitamins and microelements, therefore this honey is often recommended for beriberi, improving the permeability of capillary walls. The color of this type of honey can be dark yellow, dark brown. It has a pleasant aroma and tart taste.
• Field honey is an excellent sedative for the nervous system, helps with diseases of the upper respiratory tract. Field honey is recommended for insomnia and headaches.
• Sweet clover honey - has a diuretic, expectorant, analgesic effect, thins the blood, improves blood circulation. It is one of the best varieties of honey. More common white and light amber. The taste is delicate, the aroma resembles the smell of vanilla.
• Clover honey - excellent in the treatment of colds and lung diseases as an expectorant and diaphoretic. This honey is transparent, has a delicate aroma and delicate taste.
• Forest honey - especially useful for respiratory diseases.
• Linden honey - has excellent nutritional and medicinal properties, is used in the treatment of colds and inflammation of the digestive tract, diseases of the gallbladder and kidneys.
• Meadow honey is an excellent antimicrobial and general tonic.
• May honey is recommended as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent.
• Sunflower honey - used for influenza, neuralgia, liver diseases.
• Chestnut honey is an excellent remedy for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes.
• Mustard honey - useful for diseases of the joints, skin, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
• Fruit honey - collected from the flowers of trees during their flowering period. In the fresh state, it is transparent with a red-yellow tint, becoming light yellow after crystallization.
• Mountain honey - the price for ecological cleanliness. It has a bitter taste and strong aroma.
• Rapeseed honey is especially useful for lung diseases, asthma, does not cause allergies. It has a weak aroma and sugary taste.
• Raspberry honey is a light golden honey with a pleasant smell and taste reminiscent of the taste of raspberries. It is in high demand in the treatment of women's diseases, respiratory tract.

We have listed only a small part of the types of honey. Each of them has its own characteristic feature in taste, aroma, color and medicinal qualities.

Characteristics of honey

Honey is the product of the nectar partially digested in the bee's crop. Natural honey has a pronounced sweet taste. The smell (or aroma) of honey depends on the characteristics of a particular plant.

Honey contains:

• Water - 13-23 g;
• Fats - 0 g;
• Proteins - 0 g;
• Carbohydrates - fructose, glucose, sucrose - 82.4 g;
• Vitamins - E, K, C, group B, folic acid, provitamin A-carotene, pantothenic acid;
• Trace elements - calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, sodium.

Honey is divided according to:

• botanical origin;
• Trademark;
• geographical origin;
• Smell and taste;
• Transparency and color;
• Consistencies.

By origin, honey is:

• floral - formed as a result of the collection and further processing of nectar, which is secreted by nectaries of both flowering and non-flowering plants ;
• honeydew - formed when bees collect honeydew (sweet secretions of aphids) and honeydew from the stems and leaves of plants. This type of honey contains more minerals and dextrins than flower honey.

Depending on the consistency, honey is divided into the following types:

• Liquid - fresh honey has just such a normal state after pumping it out of the honeycombs. It can have a different degree of density, which depends on a lower or higher water content in honey and partly on air temperature.
• "Shrunk" (or crystallized) - honey is formed naturally from liquid honey. Dandelion honey "sits down" most quickly; honey collected from herbs “sits down” 2-3 months after its collection. Crystallized honey does not lose its beneficial qualities.

Also, honey is divided by its color, which depends on the plant from whose nectar honey was obtained:

• light color;
• Dark color. At the same time, there are many different shades of honey from pure white to red-brown.

artificial honey

This type of honey is made from beet and cane sugar, corn, watermelon juice, melon. This type of honey does not contain enzymes in its composition and does not have a characteristic aroma. A little natural honey is added to artificial honey for the appearance of a “honey” aroma and tinted with a decoction of tea or saffron.

This type of honey is obtained by acid hydrolysis of beet or cane sugar. Or by evaporating the juice of watermelon, melon, grapes. Upon evaporation, a mixture with a characteristic yellowish tint is obtained. It retains the content of fructose, glucose. As a result of all the necessary processes, honey is obtained, which has a large amount of carbohydrates, easily digestible minerals.

sugar honey

Often in the markets they try to sell a fake of artificial honey - sugar honey. It is made from ordinary sugar syrup; for color and smell, honey and tea broth are added to it. Such fake "honey" is often the cause of poisoning.

In order not to become a victim of deceivers and be able to distinguish natural honey from fake, read a few tips to help distinguish natural honey from a fake:

• Real honey does not contain a lot of water in its composition, therefore a piece of bread dipped in such honey will not soften;
• Natural honey can be screwed on a spoon, artificial honey cannot;
• When mixing 50 g of distilled water and 50 g of honey, the impurities contained here will sink to the bottom or float to the surface.