2. Cooked honey refers to naturally matured honey, that is, "cooked honey". Bees collect nectar from flowers, add its saliva (invertase) to the hive, and repeatedly brew and dehydrate for about 7 days. The honey obtained is called mature honey.
3. Raw honey refers to immature honey. Immature honey is nectar that has been collected for a short time and has not been fully brewed. Most honey is collected in 1-2 days, and many nutrients are incomplete, insufficient and unstable. Immature honey is usually dehydrated and mechanically concentrated when it is sold. This kind of honey is generally called concentrated honey and processed honey. It has no nutritional value of honey.
The value of ripe honey:
The higher the maturity of honey, the richer the content of nutrients and therapeutic substances in honey, so the maturity is a crucial index of raw honey. Moreover, clinical verification shows that even if semi-mature honey is concentrated under reduced pressure during processing, its curative effect is also reduced, which is not the same as that of natural mature honey. It is speculated that the active components and volatile oil with therapeutic effect in honey are related to the destruction and loss during processing. Therefore, the production of high-quality natural mature honey for raw materials is the guarantee of curative effect.
Honey is nectar secreted by nectar collected by bees in flowers (or nectaries outside flowers). It is a natural sweet substance and matures after brewing. The content of water in nectar is very high, accounting for about 60%, so there is little sugar and low sweetness. After bees collect nectar and return to the hive, they are fully brewed for 5-7 days to remove excess water, and then undergo a series of biochemical and physical changes. When the concentration of honey reaches 40-43 Pompeii, bees will cover the nest with wax, and the honey taken out at this time is mature honey. The water content of mature honey is as low as 23%, which is thick, sweet and difficult to ferment.