honey
Honey is the nectar collected by insects and bees from the flowers of flowering plants and brewed in honeycombs. Bees take nectar or secretion with water content of about 80% from plant flowers, store it in their second stomach, ferment it for 30 minutes under the action of invertase in vivo, and then return to the hive to spit it out. The temperature in the hive is often kept at about 35℃. After a period of time, the water evaporates into honey with water content less than 20%, which is stored in the nest hole and sealed with beeswax.
Besides glucose and fructose, honey also contains various vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Honey is more easily absorbed by human body than sucrose (the main component of sugar), because honey is composed of monosaccharide glucose and fructose, which can be directly absorbed by human body without enzyme decomposition. Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar, which will crystallize at low temperature, and glucose will produce crystallization, while fructose is the main part that does not produce crystallization.
The Beauty Effects of Different Nectaries
1, Baihua honey
Baihua honey is usually made by mixing more than five kinds of honey, which is sweet and moist, and has many functions, such as clearing away heat, nourishing the middle warmer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and converging, and is suitable for most people. It also has many functions, such as metabolism, immunity, growth promotion, memory enhancement, gastrointestinal health, blood circulation promotion, liver protection, anti-inflammation, analgesia, longevity and so on. Regular consumption can improve the immunity of teenagers.
2. acacia honey
Acacia honey is mainly produced in the north of the Yangtze River. Sophora japonica honey has the functions of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and toxic materials, calming the heart and calming the nerves, and is suitable for all people, especially teenagers and middle-aged and elderly people. Sophora japonica honey exudes a faint scent of Sophora japonica, and the entrance is sweet but not greasy, moist and soft. Modern pharmacological research shows that Sophora japonica honey has the functions of relaxing blood vessels, improving blood circulation, preventing arteriosclerosis, lowering blood pressure, eliminating dampness and diuresis.
3. Chinese milk vetch honey
Milk vetch honey is mainly produced in southern provinces. Its main characteristics are clear and bright color, elegant smell, sweet taste and the same effect as acacia honey. This product not only has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing the middle energizer and moistening dryness, but also can dispel wind, improve eyesight, reduce swelling and induce diuresis, and has a certain auxiliary effect on cough due to wind phlegm, sore throat and hemorrhoid caused by fire. It is a health care product for people with exuberant deficiency fire.
4. Tilia honey
Tilia amurensis honey is mainly produced in Heilongjiang and Jilin. It has a strong mint flavor, is cool and sweet, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, tonifying deficiency, clearing away heat, tonifying middle warmer, detoxifying and moistening dryness, and has a certain calming effect. Linden honey contains more glucose, fructose, vitamins, amino acids, hormones, enzymes and esters than ordinary honey, which is a rare honey.
5, jujube honey
Jujube flower honey is mainly produced in Shandong, Shanxi and Henan, and the honey juice is transparent or slightly turbid and shiny. The texture is sticky and difficult to crystallize, and some jujube nectar can be seen with a small amount of coarse crystals at the bottom. Jujube nectar has the special effects of resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, promoting tissue regeneration, moistening lung and intestine, invigorating spleen and kidney, detoxifying and protecting liver, strengthening heart and hematopoiesis, regulating blood pressure and blood sugar, regulating nerves, improving sleep, caring skin, prolonging life, resisting aging and strengthening body.
6, longan honey
Longan honey is mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. Longan honey, also known as "longan honey", is the top grade of honey, with strong longan aroma and the highest content of protein. It has the effects of nourishing blood, calming the nerves, stimulating appetite, nourishing skin, clearing away heat and moistening dryness, and invigorating the middle energizer. It has auxiliary effects on palpitation, insomnia and memory loss caused by blood deficiency of heart and spleen, and is especially suitable for women.
The function of edible honey
1. Recover from fatigue, especially after staying up late.
Among all natural foods, the energy required by brain neurons is the highest in honey. Fructose and glucose in honey can be quickly absorbed and utilized by the body to improve the nutritional status of blood. Usage: a cup of honey water at noon.
2. Eliminate accumulated food after a big meal
Honey can promote the normal secretion of gastric acid and enhance intestinal peristalsis, which can significantly shorten the defecation time. Usage: Take 25g of honey on an empty stomach every morning and evening.
Step 3 moisten the lungs
Honey has anti-inflammatory, expectorant, lung moistening and cough relieving effects, and loquat honey has the best cough relieving effect. Usage: One Sydney, sliced and mixed with honey, several times a day.
Step 4 sober up
Honey contains a kind of fructose that most fruits don't have, which can promote the decomposition and absorption of alcohol, so it is beneficial to sober up quickly and relieve the headache after drinking. Usage: Before drinking, eat 50 grams of honey or some biscuits and bread coated with honey, and drink honey water after drinking.
5. Let the excited nerves sleep.
Glucose, vitamins, magnesium, phosphorus and calcium in honey can regulate nervous system function, relieve nervous tension and promote sleep. Moreover, honey has no side effects such as depression, fatigue and distraction that other drugs have. The sedative function of apple honey is the most prominent. Usage: a spoonful of honey before going to bed every night.
Step 6 treat accidental wounds
The acidity of honey after sugar removal is equivalent to vinegar, which can make bacteria unable to survive in the wound site. Even if there are no germs, the swelling and pain of the wound will be greatly reduced under its action, and the dead muscles can be eliminated and the wound healing can be accelerated. Usage: Wash the wound with10% ~15% honey juice, and apply it with pure honey for dressing.
How to correctly distinguish true honey from false honey
True honey is transparent or translucent in color. Sophora japonica honey contains some ingredients such as protein, biological enzymes, minerals and pollen, so it looks not very clear, and it is white, light yellow or amber. Rapeseed nectar and jujube nectar will be darker. Fake honey is bright in color, usually light yellow or dark yellow, because it is boiled with white sugar or impersonated with syrup.
If the impurity identification method is used, a spoonful of honey can be put into a cup, and 4-5 times of hot water can be added to dissolve it. After standing for 3-4 hours, if no precipitation occurs, it will be pure honey and good honey.
In addition, from the taste point of view, true honey is sweet and delicious, with a slight sour taste, and the crystal block is crisp at the entrance, and it melts when it is contained, while fake honey has a bitter taste, and the crystal block chews like sugar with a crisp sound.
From the smell point of view, real honey has a faint plant fragrance, Sophora japonica honey has Sophora japonica fragrance, jujube honey has jujube fragrance, and each honey has the natural fragrance of each flower. Fake honey is blended with essence and smells pungent or fruity.
In addition, clarify a misunderstanding. Many people think that crystallized honey is fake honey. In fact, pure honey mainly contains fructose and glucose, in which the glucose content is high, and it is easier to crystallize when the temperature is lower than 14℃, but the crystallization of real honey is crisp at the entrance and melts when it is contained. Adulterated honey is not easy to crystallize, and the crystallized crystal is similar to eating sugar when chewed. In addition, the sweetness of fructose in honey is 1.8 times that of sucrose, so real honey tastes very sweet.
In fact, the dispute between counterfeiting and anti-counterfeiting in the honey market has been going on. In order to let more consumers enjoy the real honey, some honey manufacturers are constantly raising the threshold of imitation and counterfeiting of their products. For example, nest honey, which has become more and more popular in the market recently, is a new product launched by some honey manufacturers to deal with fake honey.