Questions about honey

Place 30-35 grams of honey in a glass or plate. Stir the honey with a spoon, bringing it closer to your nose and inhaling slowly several times. At first, you will only smell a strong scent, but then your sense of smell will adapt and it will be easier to sense faint scents.
Next, take some honey and put it in your mouth. As it dissolves, move the honey to the back of your mouth. This will help clarify the flavor. This method is called retronasal. The aroma of honey should be appropriate for its variety. For example, acacia honey has a light aroma with a pungent spicy note. The aroma of linden honey is sweet, fragrant, buckwheat – slightly bitter, deep. To taste the honey, crush a small portion between your tongue and palate. It is recommended to check the taste of honey several times and only after warming up the honey in a water bath at temperatures up to 30 degrees. Chestnut and buckwheat varieties are astringent, light varieties should not have a bitter taste. When tasting honey, pay attention to the fact that it should not have a sour aroma or aftertaste, as well as an aroma that is not characteristic of this variety.

Different types of honey crystallize in different ways. On average – within 1-3 months after pumping out of the honeycomb. Sunflower and colza varieties crystallize very quickly – within 1-2 weeks after pumping. Fast crystallization process in honey collected from rapeseed, mustard, sainfoin, sow thistle, cotton, alfalfa, and honeydew honey. Acacia honey, on the other hand, can remain liquid for years. Honey collected by bees from sage, cherry, orange also slowly crystallizes.
Honey from linden, raspberry or fireweed, stored in a tightly sealed container at temperatures above or below 10oC-15oC, does not crystallize for a long time.

Ointments with propolis are effective for skin diseases, burns, wounds and frostbite.

Natural honey 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.

Apitherapy is the treatment of various human diseases with the use of live bees, as well as bee products. The main products used in apitherapy are honey, pollen, propolis and royal jelly, bee bread, wax and bee venom. On the basis of medicinal products produced by bees, ointments, infusions and tablets are made.