With the improvement of people's health concept, honey has also become our essential "nutrition". There are a lot of netizens who buy a few bottles of honey every time they go to the supermarket. Or use it for flushing, or give it to friends and relatives. Honey has high nutritional value, and can also be matched with various fruits, such as lemon, passion fruit, pear and kumquat in spring, which can eliminate spring fire and is very suitable.
There are many varieties and brands of honey in the market. Take varieties for example, there are native honey, Italian honey and wild honey. There are more brands of honey, which are dazzling and dizzying. So many friends will be confused, how should we choose real honey? As a professional beekeeper, true honey is good honey. The common honey brands in life are actually not good honey, especially those marked on the ingredient list are all processed mixed honey, which has low nutritional value.
Please pay attention to the ingredient list in this picture, which is a brand of Baihua crystal honey that can often be seen in supermarkets.
The ingredients marked in the ingredients are Tilia amurensis honey, acacia honey, Flos Lonicerae honey and rape honey. Interested friends can check the flowering period of these plants, and the answer will be clear. Rape blossoms in March every year, acacia flowers in May, and Tilia amurensis in July every year. It is impossible for bees to finish nectar in different seasons at the same time. Therefore, if these words are marked in the ingredients, it can only show that this honey is processed and modulated in the later stage of the factory, and its nutritional value is not high, and other substances are not excluded! In terms of nutritional value, it is definitely not a nutritional level with pure natural mature honey.
So, how to choose good honey with high quality? There are three standards when purchasing, one is pure natural; Second, there is no pesticide residue; The third is natural maturity. As long as these three conditions are met, it is definitely a good honey with high quality. Here, I'd like to share with you the skills that beekeepers taught me: try to buy honey brewed by wild nectar plants, such as Sophora japonica honey, Vitex negundo honey, jujube honey and so on. Honey comes from wild plants in nature, which certainly meets the natural conditions, and at the same time, it can eliminate the honey source of crops planted on a large scale artificially. Mountain areas such as Qinling Mountains, Yimeng Mountain and Changbai Mountain in China all meet these two conditions.
Besides, good honey with high quality must be natural mature honey. Natural mature honey needs long-term brewing and fermentation, and its nutritional value will be higher. The disadvantage is that it takes a long time. From the collection of honey dew by bees to the brewing and fermentation, it takes about 6 days to brew alone, which is not too long to be fermented. In order to ensure the profit, so a lot of honey in the market is water honey or mixed honey processed by water honey. Seeing this, you may understand, yes! If you can, try to buy raw honey from wild honey sources, which has high nutritional value and is more reassuring to eat.
When buying honey, there are these lines on the ingredient list. No matter what brand, it is processed mixed honey.