The nutritional value and medicinal efficacy of all kinds of honey are similar, but the difference in color, fragrance and taste is due to the difference in honey source plants. Honey with light and transparent color, light fragrance and sweet taste is easily accepted by people, such as litchi, longan, loquat, citrus, acacia and linden (loquat honey has a strong almond flavor, but some people don't like it). The price of these honey is naturally more expensive than that of camellia, sesame, butter, eucalyptus, buckwheat and other honey with dark brown turbidity, rich aroma and unpleasant taste. Usually called mountain honey, wild flower honey, miscellaneous flower honey, hundred flower honey and earth honey, all kinds of mixed honey are generally poor in color, fragrance and taste, and some even contain poisonous honey, so it is necessary to know the origin and harvest season of honey to avoid accidental poisoning. Generally speaking, light honey tastes better and costs more than dark honey, while dark honey is more nutritious and cheaper than light honey. Honey with color, fragrance, taste and price between light honey and dark honey, such as rape, sunflower and Vitex negundo, can be described as affordable honey. Bottled honey marked as "honey" in the market is a kind of mixed honey with rape as the main component. "Honey is flat and sweet" has been recorded in ancient and modern medical books. However, there are some small differences between Datong, such as rape, camellia and loquat, which are cool in nature, and have better effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening dryness and relaxing bowels, especially loquat has obvious effects on cough caused by lung heat. Litchi, longan, jujube and other honey are mild and warm, so they have good effects of tonifying the middle warmer, strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, especially jujube honey is suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, abdominal distension and constipation.
In a word, which kind of honey to buy is good, should be chosen reasonably according to everyone's taste, physical requirements and economic situation.