1, Italy: Sophora japonica honey, chestnut honey
Lunigiana, Italy, spans Tuscany and Liguria, and the honey produced here is the first honey certified by the European Union PDO. Sophora japonica honey and chestnut honey are the oldest and best quality varieties here. Chestnut nectar is deep in color, reddish in hue and rich in fragrance, and its position in Italy is called champagne's position in France. Sophora japonica honey is very sweet, with a little soft acidity and a subtle vanilla fragrance.
2, Turkey: Pine honey pine
Turkey produces 95% of the world's pine honey and has many fans. When pests suck the sap of pine trees, they leave a sweet secretion, which bees collect and turn into pine honey. This kind of pine honey is expensive. Compared with other honey, it is dark in color and still has rosin.
3, Scotland: Heather honey Heather
August-September is the best season for heather in Scotland. However, at this time in the Scottish Highlands, bees have basically entered a dormant state. In order to produce this rare nectar, beekeepers have to breed bees in the form of "grazing"-breeding in the warm and comfortable south in spring and summer to keep the bee colony strong and active; When the heather blooms in August and September, they are moved to the north to produce this precious and rare honey.
Different from the fluid form of common honey, the texture of heather honey is similar to paste. This makes honey harvesting a hard job, and beekeepers have to scrape and squeeze honey out of the hive by hand. Photinia nectar has a very unique flavor, with a strong hay flavor, caramel, mint, sage and other flavors, with a long aftertaste. In Britain, this nectar has always been regarded as a treasure.
4. Australia: Leatherwood honey leatherwood
Every year in Gemu bloom, Tasmania, Australia, beekeepers drive their trucks with beehives into the rainforest. According to the data of the Sydney Morning Herald, the/kloc-0.7 billion bees here can create millions of dollars in output value. This kind of leather wood honey has the characteristics of floral fragrance, spicy and complex.
5. Florida, USA: Cornus officinalis honey Tupelo
Honey brewed from white dogwood flowers along the Ogilvy River has a unique feature that pure dogwood honey does not crystallize, which is different from other honey.
6. Ethiopia: WhiteHoney
The most famous Ethiopian honey product is probably t'ej (a sweet and golden honey wine). However, white honey from Tigray, Tigray, is the liquid gold in Ethiopia. In some years, severe drought will make the already rare white honey even rarer, so the price of this rare precious honey is rising.
7. New Zealand: Manuka honey
Only New Zealand and Australia have this plant, so there are only these two domestic manuka honey. Because of its excellent antibacterial effect, Manuka honey is often used as a drug substitute, especially for regulating stomach diseases. Manuka honey has a strong flavor, with the aroma characteristics of moist soil, leather and herbs, and its oil is complex.
8, France: Lavender honey Lavender
People often use lavender to make salt and soap, or essential oil, but beekeepers in Provence also use bees and lavender to produce this sweet and fragrant honey. Lavender honey has a unique grape flavor, mixed with some grass breath, and it is also a good honey that everyone loves.
Second, how to buy good imported honey
1, look at gloss and color:
The texture of true honey is light white with naked eyes, light yellow or amber, and light color is better; The luster is not very bright.
Fake honey is bright in color, boiled with white sugar or impersonated with syrup, so it looks very clear and bright, usually light yellow or dark yellow.
In addition, pure honey is colorless, and the color of honey is caused by the pollen of different plants in honey.
Therefore, dark honey is more nutritious than light honey, but dark honey often contains a strong smell, such as buckwheat honey; Light-colored honey generally smells fragrant, such as litchi honey and locust tree honey.
2. Identification of impurities:
Red-hot iron wire can be inserted into the honey. The real honey is steaming, and the fake one is smoking. If it is pure honey, the iron wire will be very smooth and free of impurities after being pulled out.
Use chopsticks to stir up honey, which can be pulled into long silk, continuously flowing, and the broken silk will automatically retract and be spherical.
Mix honey and water according to the ratio of1:5, and leave it for one day. The one without precipitation is the best.
3, water identification:
Honey drops on white paper, pure honey becomes beads and will not seep, while honey mixed with water will gradually seep, and the faster it seeps, the more water will be mixed.
This method can only identify the water content of honey, because both true honey and fake honey will become beads as long as the water content is small enough, and when the water content reaches a certain level, both true and false honey will seep out when they drop on the paper;
4. Identification of heavy metals:
Take a tablespoon of honey and add it to half a cup of very strong cold green tea. If the honey has been polluted by heavy metals, the tannins in the tea will react with the heavy metals in the honey to form gray or brown and black salts. The darker the color, the heavier the degree of heavy metal pollution.
5. Identification of starch:
Put a small amount of honey into a cup, add a proper amount of water to boil, and after cooling, drop a few drops of iodine and shake well. If the solution turns blue or red or purple, it means that the honey is mixed with starch.
6, sugar identification:
Honey mixed with sugar has poor transparency, unclear brightness, turbid shape and poor flower fragrance. Honey mixed with brown sugar is dark in color, while honey mixed with white sugar is light in color. Can be rubbed with two fingers, to feel sticky as well, there is a granular feeling of sugar.
7, taste identification:
Real honey is sweet and delicious, with a slight sour taste. The crystal block is crisp when it is in the teeth, and it melts when it is contained, while fake honey has a bitter taste. The crystal block chews like sugar, and the sound is crisp and loud. This identification method is the best way for experts. As long as honey is tasted, it is true or false, but it is difficult for ordinary novices, because there are so many kinds of honey, and the taste of different honey is different, some are very palatable, while others are very unpalatable; But the fake honey is very palatable.
8, smell identification:
Real honey has a faint floral smell, while fake honey smells pungent or fruity.