Honey from herbs contains a combination of trace elements and nutrients of pollen and nectar from wild plants. Beekeepers appreciate this variety for its pleasant taste, and attribute it to high-grade. Often such honey is called floral, field or meadow.
In nature, rarely any kind of honey is found in its pure form. When bribing a bee, it doesn’t matter from which plant to take nectar. The main thing is that it contains a lot of sugars and aromatic substances.
In honey from raznotravya there is no clearly defined purity of the honey. Their number is more than a dozen in one honey.
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Taste and color of honey from herbs
Honey from herbs is aromatic, has a pleasant, rich taste.with. Meadow honey is slightly sugary, has a rich yellow color with a brownish tinge.
This variety is not sugared for a long time., and after crystallization brightens, has a fine-grained structure. Pleasant aftertaste.
Ingredients: vitamins and minerals
Honey from herbs is rich in easily digestible carbohydrates, in particular fructose. Contains a lot of carbohydrates:
| Composition | % |
|---|---|
| Squirrels | 1 |
| Fat | 0 |
| Carbohydrates | 75 |
Fatty acids are absent. Basic trace elements and minerals:
- Manganese;
- Calcium;
- Iron;
- Nickel;
- Chromium;
- Copper;
- Fluorine;
- Zinc and others.
Contains in its composition ascorbic acid (vitamin C), vitamins of group B, vitamin K and E, and others.
Honey is very nutritious. 100 g of the product contains about 314 kilocalories. Therefore, people leading a sedentary lifestyle and children are not recommended to eat it more than 40 g per day. The rest can enjoy this bee product up to 80 g per day.
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Beneficial features
The high content of fructose contributes to its use by people diabetics, in moderation after consultation with your doctor.
The beneficial properties of honey from herbs are not limited to soothing, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. The composition of this variety successfully fights against harmful microbes, improve the body's immunity in any season.
The composition of this delicacy includes the pollen of many herbs., growing in clean areas, so the useful effect of its use increases.
Honey has a tonic and restorative effect on the body, especially after mental and physical exertion.
Contraindications and harm
If a person has pollen allergy, it is better or to refuse the use of honey, or as an experiment try half a teaspoon of this delicacy.
You shouldn't eat him too much. Enough one teaspoon per day. Insulin-dependent people need to eat honey moderately.
Everyone else, let them enjoy the excellent taste of this beekeeping product, while not forgetting that everything is good in moderation.
About the steppe honey plant
There are many honey plants of this sort of honey. They are scattered in all territories of many countries of the world. In Russia, the most common:
- Altai honey plants: blackthrow, dandelion, wormwood, chamomile, salvage, St. John's wort, adonis;
- steppe medrnosy: cornflower, rape, chaff;
- melliferous forests: raspberry, strawberry, linden, hawthorn.
In addition, meadows and mountains are excellent honey plants.
Plants bloom at different times all summer and early autumn. Therefore, the bees have enough time to collect pollen, waiting for a convenient and favorable time for such work. We also get a useful delicacy.
Depending on honey plants, a different composition of honey is formed. But in any case, honey is always fragrant and tasty.
Storage conditions
Due to the fact that honey from herbs does not crystallize for a long time, its stored at temperature from 13 to 18 degrees heat in the pantry, on the balcony. After saccharification reduce the temperature to 5-7 degrees with a plus.
When the humidity is above 60% in open form, this variety can sour. Therefore, it is better to observe the specified mode. Glassware during storage is always preferable to metal or plastic. You should not keep honey in the sun or just in the light.
What are the main diseases treats?
In fact, besides wound healing, pure honey does not cure. It helps the body fight diseases, activating its capabilities, strengthening the immune system. This happens due to the release of large amounts of vitamins, minerals and other substances.
therefore honey from herbs is useful to the person at gastritis, other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. It coats the intestinal wall with its astringent substance. With its moderate use normalizes metabolism in the body.
This kind of honey helps to cope with skin diseases, get rid of vision problems and normalizes the work of the heart, liver.It is used for colds, bronchitis, other diseases of the respiratory tract, headaches.
If there are no seeded honey plants in summer the main bribe of bees occurs due to raznotravya. Honey turns fragrant and tasty. It is used with pleasure and appreciated by experts and lovers to enjoy this bee product.
in June, the market bought honey from raznotravya, store honey on the balcony. Summer is on the street, but honey has thickened very much (it is impossible to take a spoon) and the color has become much lighter. Tell me how to be, how can I make honey less and how to store it in the future or honey is no longer suitable for food?
In addition to all the above, you should also take into account the fact where or to what flowers, herbs, trees and plants, are the hive. Agree to be funny, trying to give orders to the bees to collect honey, for example, exclusively from lime.
When buying honey, it is always advised that herbs, buckwheat, and mountain honey are recommended for healing properties.
Herbs - useful honey, memorable for taste, taste of wild flowers,which remarkably normalizes the work of the liver and cures bronchitis.