Organic Honey

Honey's sugars are dehydrated, which prevents fermentation, with added enzymes to modify and transform their chemical composition and pH. Invertases and digestive acids hydrolyze sucrose to give the monosaccharides glucose and fructose. Invertase is one of these enzymes synthesized by the body of the insect. Honey is collected from wild bee colonies, or from domesticated beeives. Wild bee nests are sometimes located by following a honeyguide bird. The bees may first be pacified by using smoke from a bee smoker. The smoke triggers a feeding instinct (an attempt to save the resources of the hive from a possible fire), making them less aggressive and the smoke obscures the pheromones the bees use to communicate.

Most commercially available honey is blended, meaning it is a mixture of two or more honeys differing in floral source, color, flavor, density or geographic origin.Polyfloral honey, also known as wildflower honey,is derived from the nectar of many types of flowers.

The taste may vary from year to year, and the aroma and the flavor can be more or less intense, depending on which bloomings are prevalent.

Monofloral honey is made primarily from the nectar of one type of flower. Different monofloral honeys have a distinctive flavor and color because of differences between their principal nectar source. To produce monofloral honey, beekeepers keep beehives in an area where the bees have access to only one type of flower. In practice, because of the difficulties in containing bees, a small proportion of any honey will be from additional nectar from other flower types. Typical examples of North American monofloral honeys are clover, orange blossom, blueberry, sage, tupelo, buckwheat, fireweed, mesquite and sourwood. Some typical European examples include thyme, thistle, heather, acacia, dandelion, sunflower, honeysuckle, and varieties from lime and chestnut trees.

How to use and nutrtional properties:

Honey is primarily composed of water, sugar (fructose and glucose, maltose), acids, proteins, minerals (mainly iron, calcium and phosphorus), substances and aromas of flowers, including pigments (chlorophyll derivatives), tannin , phosphate and vitamins. Honey is composed almost exclusively of sugars and is very important, in its composition, the high concentration of fructose; In fact, fructose is 100% a product derived from nature, without human intervention.

The honey is particularly indicated in the diet dedicated to childhood, as it promotes the fixing of minerals in the human body, which the normal sugar is not able to do. There are many therapeutic properties of honey, different depending on the nectar of the flowers with which it was produced. Generally honey is an excellent anti-inflammatory for the throat and has sedative effects against the nervous excitement and insomnia.

Wildflower honey is known for its detoxifying properties in favor of the liver, while the chestnut honey promotes blood circulation and urinary disinfectant, for these reasons it is recommended for children and the elderly. Interesting properties of honey which has a sunflower against cholesterol in the human body as well as having an action calcific bones. Honey juniper instead, it will assist in the respiratory and the dandelion has a purifying, especially kidneys.