Mustard honey

Mustard honey bees are collected from large yellow flowers of white mustard. From the nectar harvested from a hectare of these flowers, bees produce up to 40 kg of honey of golden color, which after

How to store honey

Honey is stored only in an impeccably clean glass or aluminum container. You can not pour honey into uncleaned containers under the pretext that it also stored honey. A film of aged honey promotes the

Apple-tree honey

Apple honey is light yellow, with an exceptionally pleasant aroma. Contains 31.67% of glucose and 42% of levulose. The bees make it from the nectar of the apple blossoms. From a hectare of blossoming apple-trees,

The content of vitamins in honey

Vitamins are organic substances, essential elements of normal nutrition. Before vitamins, such terrible diseases as scurvy, beriberi, rickets, pellagra and others receded. Academician AN Bach wrote that vitamins, which until recently seemed to be secondary

Honeydew honey

Spray honey is transparent, with a greenish tinge, crystallization becomes white, in the form of snow pellets, and sometimes resembles cream or bacon. It becomes yellow when heated; has a delicate aroma, pleasant to the

Eucalyptus honey

Eucalyptus honey is unpleasant to the taste, but highly valued, as it is used in folk medicine for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Literary data on the medicinal properties of eucalyptus honey in tuberculosis are

Honey to small children

The replacement of sugar with honey in the diet has a beneficial effect on the formation of the child’s body. To consume honey is best in pure form, and also adding to different foods. This

Breaded honey

Burachnikov honey bees produce from the nectar of large beautiful blue flowers borage – cucumber grass, which is bred to us as a valuable honey plant and medicinal plant. This honey is transparent, bright and

Tobacco honey

Tobacco honey in color varies from light to dark, has an unpleasant smell and a bitter taste. Due to low taste qualities, it is almost not used in human nutrition. It is used in tobacco

Chestnut honey

Chestnut honey of dark color, has a weak aroma, unpleasant to taste. Bees make this honey from the nectar of the chestnut tree flowers growing in our country mainly in the Crimea and Transcaucasia. Bees

Determining the quality of honey

The quality of bee honey can be determined organoleptically and by other simple techniques. Great importance in determining the quality of honey has a viscosity – the resistance of honey to flow through the hole,

Getting honey honey by express method

The principle of express method of honey bee production is the natural processing of artificial sweet solutions by honeybees into bee honey according to a certain recipe. The express method, as already mentioned, is economical,

Buckwheat honey

Buckwheat honey is dark yellow with a reddish tinge and dark brown color. Unlike other varieties has a peculiar flavor and specific taste. When crystallized, it turns into a gruel-like mass. Some tasters note that

Preservative properties of honey

Avicenna almost a thousand years ago pointed out that honey has high properties “to prevent decay and damage to meat.” Arab doctor and traveler of the XII century, Abd-al-Latif, found in one of the famous

Tulip honey

Tulip honey of reddish color, has a pleasant aroma and good taste. Bees collect this honey from the greenish-red flowers of a beautiful decorative tulip tree. This tree is a good honey plant, as it