Encyclopedia of honey

Which honey is better?

Each type of honey is a very useful product that contains a huge amount of useful substances. However, the varieties differ from each other in taste and therapeutic properties. If you are not very fond of sugary sweet honey or are afraid of allergies – your honey is acacia. If you want to save yourself from colds or bronchitis, take linden honey. To maintain a weakened immune system, polyfloral honey is perfect – mountain, flower, field, forest. To improve digestion, take sunflower, melilot, or willow honey. Well, to improve the hematopoietic function, choose varieties with a high iron content – buckwheat, chestnut. Try all varieties and remember: there is no right honey for everyone, there is only the right honey for you. Find YOUR honey.

What is artificial honey?

This is honey, the raw material for which is not pollen, but any sugar-containing product – sugar cane or beets, watermelon juice, corn, melon, grapes, etc. Artificial honey has sufficient nutritional value, but has no medicinal properties.

Why is bee bread useful?

Perge contains a whole range of vitamins: C, B1, B2, B6, P, A, E, D. Mineral salts in bee bread are 4-7 mg%, organic acids – 1-5 mg%. Perga has pronounced antitoxic properties, increases the content of erythrocytes, reticulocytes and hemoglobin in the blood, and normalizes the number of leukocytes.

What is the use of honey?

Honey is a biologically active product that contains more than 300 components that have a beneficial effect on metabolic processes in the body. Honey contains 38% fructose, 31% glucose, as well as sucrose, proteins, minerals and almost all trace elements known in nature: iron, magnesium, potassium, calcium and others. Depending on the variety, honey promotes blood renewal (buckwheat honey), has an antimicrobial effect (linden honey), increases immunity (mountain honey). However, despite the presence of vitamins and microelements in honey, their concentration is insufficient for their daily intake. The main value of honey is in its 100% assimilation by the body, so honey is pure energy, and its amazing properties are still not fully understood.

WHITE FOAM ON HONEY SURFACE

Often on the surface of honey you can see white foam – THIS IS GLUCOSE.

When honey crystallizes (if the humidity of honey is low), glucose crystallizes and turns into white spots of various sizes. All this is a natural process characteristic of natural honey, which has not been subjected to any external influences (for example, heating).

Many people mistakenly believe that white bloom is sugar that could be fed to bees, and not glucose from flower nectar. But the white, sugary honey crust is a sure sign of a mature meal of very high quality.

CRYSTALLIZATION (OR SUGARING) HONEY

Has the honey thickened? Nothing wrong! From the point of view, honey is a supersaturated solution of sugars, the equilibrium state of aggregation of which is crystallized (solid), therefore any honey has either already sat down or is “on the way” to this (beekeepers call this process “sadko Sadka – a completely natural process for mature honey is not The crystallization period depends on the variety, on average 1-3 months from the day the honey is pumped out of the honeycomb.

CONSUMPTION OF HONEY

Most often, honey is dissolved in warm (but not hot!) Water or milk. Honey can be consumed at any time of the day and at any age, but first with caution to make sure there are no allergies.

adults 100g (4 tablespoons) per day;

children 30-50g per day

enter small children into the diet no earlier than 8-9 months;

HOW TO USE BEE PRODUCTS?

ROYAL JELLY

Royal jelly is a well-known ingredient that stimulates cell renewal and preserves youth. The most balanced biological stimulant.

How to use: honey with royal jelly is recommended to use 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day.

PROPOLIS

Propolis is a remedy for dozens of diseases. Due to its bactericidal effect, it is used to treat colds, sore throat, nose, burns, and wound healing.

How to use: honey with propolis is recommended to use 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day

PERGA (bee bread)

Perga – has strong anti-toxic properties, increases the content of erythrocytes and hemoglobin in the blood, normalizes the number of leukocytes

How to use: it is best to consume bee bread in the morning 15-20 minutes before meals, without drinking water.

POLLEN

Flower pollen is a valuable nutritious product containing a rich complex of vitamins, minerals and trace elements.

BREAKING HONEY

It is important to distinguish between honey and honey layering during the setting process. If honey from the bottom has crystallized (sat down), and the upper part is in a liquid state, while the consistency of honey is viscous, then the honey is in the process of “setting”.

If the consistency on the surface of honey is too liquid (like water), this means that honey, most likely of poor quality, can ferment. Most likely this honey was pumped out unripe, without a wax seal of the honeycomb cell.

HOW TO DISSOLVE HONEY?

So that honey becomes liquid again without losing its healing properties, place it in a water bath with a temperature of up to 35 ° C. After 4-5 hours, take out the jar and mix the honey well.

LIQUID HONEY IN WINTER – WHERE FROM?

After pumping out, which takes place right in the apiary, honey is stored in flasks, mostly in a shrunken state. However, to put honey in jars, it must be “dissolved” to a liquid state. The process of dissolution (transfer of honey from a shrunken state to a liquid state) occurs at a permissible temperature of 35-38 ° C and takes from 3 to 6 days. At the specified temperature, honey, becoming liquid, retains all its beneficial properties. That is why you can find liquid honey on store shelves in winter.

What kind of honey is good for blood circulation?

To improve the hematopoietic function and cardiac activity of the body, apitherapists advise taking dark honey (buckwheat, chestnut, angelica). These varieties are characterized by a high iron content, namely, it contributes to the production of red blood cells and improves blood circulation.