The linden (also known as big-leaf linden, Liao linden) and the purple linden (also known as small-leaf linden, Amur linden) are mainly found in the Xing'anling forest area in Heilongjiang and Jilin. Lime honey has an aromatic smell, excellent honey quality, transparent color, sticky, glossy with grease, low water content, fine crystallization, sweet and palatable, and rich in nutrition. Containing glucose 32.8%, fructose 39.9%, as well as sucrose, crude protein, inorganic salts and a variety of vitamins, as a tonic nutrients and medical aids, but also a traditional export commodities. With its medicine, there is a tonic, cough, laxative, detoxification, digestion and other functions; in addition, linden honey itself has a special antiseptic effect, is the main raw material for the manufacture of proprietary Chinese medicine pills.
Honey is processed and brewed by bees after collecting the secretions of plant nectar glands, honey contains more than 180 different substances, the main component is glucose and fructose, other components are a variety of amino acids, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, aromatics, pigments, hormones, organic acids, enzymes and bioactive substances.
Honey is both food, tonic and natural medicine. As honey contains a large amount of glucose and fructose, it is easily absorbed by the body and is particularly suitable for the elderly, children, women in labor, and those who are weak after illness. As a natural sweetener, honey is widely used in a variety of foods, and any food that uses cane sugar as an ingredient can be partially or completely replaced with honey. Honey can be used to make pastries, various beverages, brewing honey wine, and is also widely used in the chemical industry.
Honey has the effect of inhibiting and killing bacteria. Bacteria that do not form spores that cause human diseases cannot survive in honey. Honey is effective in hepatitis, stomach disease, heart disease, hypertension, nephritis, anemia, constipation, duodenal ulcers and decubitus ulcers. Applying honey to scalded skin can reduce pain and help wound healing.
Honey should be stored in ceramic, non-toxic plastic and other non-metallic containers. It should be placed in a cool, dry, clean, ventilated, temperature maintained at 5-10 ℃, air humidity does not exceed 75% of the warehouse.
Honey should be taken with lukewarm water below 40 degrees Celsius, overheating will inactivate the enzymes and loss of vitamins.
Source of honey
Honey is a sweet substance that is stored in the hive by bees after sufficient brewing of nectar or secretions of plants collected. It is a sweet and viscous, transparent or translucent liquid.
Honey comes from different plants, the honey is divided into monofloral honey and miscellaneous nectar;; according to the different ways of production, it can be divided into hive honey and separated honey; according to the different physical properties, it is divided into liquid honey and crystallized honey; according to the different seasons of harvesting, it is divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter honey; according to the length of the cycle of harvesting, it is divided into immature honey and mature honey; in terms of color, it is divided into light-colored honey and dark-colored honey.
Main honey varieties
Spring: rape honey, zi Yunying honey, camelina honey, apricot honey, orange honey, lychee honey, longan honey, rubber tree honey. Summer: acacia honey, jujube honey, linden honey, wolfsbane honey, thorn honey, cotton honey, meadowsweet honey, persimmon tree honey. Autumn: sunflower honey, huckleberry honey, buckwheat honey, pumpkin honey. Winter: duckfoot wood honey, wild cinnamon honey, wild damson honey, eucalyptus honey, loquat honey.
What kind of honey is good
A variety of honey nutritional value and medicinal effects are similar, just because of the different honey plants and color, aroma, taste difference. The color is light white and transparent, the aroma is light and fragrant, the taste is fresh and sweet honey is easy to be accepted by the people, such as lychee, longan, loquat, mandarin orange, acacia, linden and other types of honey (loquat honey has a strong almond flavor, there are people do not like). The price of these honeys is naturally more expensive than those that are dark brown and cloudy in color, heavy and unpleasant aroma, sweet and unpleasant taste such as camellia, sesame, sapium, eucalyptus, buckwheat and other honeys. Usually called mountain flower honey, wildflower honey, miscellaneous flower honey, honey, honey, soil honey, a variety of mixed honey, color, aroma, taste are generally poor, and some even contain poisonous honey, it is necessary to understand the origin of the honey and harvesting season, so as to avoid accidental ingestion of poisoning. Generally speaking, light-colored honey has a better taste and higher price than dark-colored honey, and dark-colored honey is more nutritious and cheaper than light-colored honey. Color, aroma, taste, price are between light-colored honey and dark honey such as rape, sunflower, thorns and other honey can be called affordable honey, the market labeled as "honey" bottled honey is a rape-based mixed honey.
"Honey is flat and sweet," the ancient and modern medical books have so recorded. But there are small differences in the same, such as rape, camellia, loquat and other honey flat cool, heat detoxification, moisturizing and laxative effect is better, especially loquat on the lung heat caused by coughing effect. Lychee, longan, jujube and other nectar is flat and warm, so it is better to replenish vital energy, strengthen the spleen and stomach, especially jujube honey on the spleen and stomach cold, bloating and constipation is suitable for people.
All in all, to buy which kind of honey is good, should be based on the taste of each person's hobbies, physical requirements and economic conditions to choose reasonably.
Main Nutrients
The main component of honey is sugar, which accounts for more than 3/4 of the total amount of honey, including monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides. The sum of fructose and glucose accounts for 85%~95% of the sugar content of honey. Mineral content is generally 0.04%~0.06%, including iron, copper, potassium, sodium, tungsten, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, lead, chromium, nickel and cobalt, etc. Dark-colored honey again contains more multi-functional minerals than light-colored honey. Vitamins; contains B vitamins, as well as vitamin C, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin, and niacin.
Determined by experts, the protein content of honey ranges from 0.29% to 1.69%, with an average of 0.75%. Some flower species contain as much as 1% or more than 2%, such as: longan honey, lychee honey, purple daffodil honey, thorn honey, rape honey and so on. Different regions, due to different geographical climate, the same kind of honey contains different proteins. For example: longan honey, Fujian production content of 2.597%, Guangdong production content of 1.698%, Hainan production content of 0.80%; Purple Yunying honey month, Hubei production of 0.801%, while Hunan production content of 0.58%.
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