Lychee honey is a high-quality honey produced in southern China. It is amber in color, fragrant and has a strong lychee flower fragrance. Honey sources are mainly distributed in southern my country, such as Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi and other provinces. Lychee is abundant in the south and is known as the "King of Fruits". Lychee honey is made from the nectar of lychees. It has a fragrant and fragrant smell, a sweet taste, and a slightly sour taste of lychee. It has the freshness of honey, but because the bees add various unique ingredients of the bees when making honey, it does not have the dryness and heat of lychees, but its It has the special effects of promoting body fluids, nourishing blood, regulating qi and regulating qi. It is a honey species unique to Lingnan. It is a special honey that can be given as a gift to relatives and friends in distant places. It is a special honey that "will never hesitate to become Lingnan people".

Effects of lychee honey

Conghua lychee honey is fragrant and sweet, contains a variety of vitamins and nutrients necessary for the human body, and is a natural health food suitable for all ages. Modern medical research has proven that the ingredients contained in lychee honey can beautify the skin, nourish the blood, and have positive auxiliary effects on promoting digestion and absorption, increasing appetite, calming and sleeping, improving human immunity, and promoting the growth and development of young babies. .

Chinese medicine believes that lychee is sweet, sour and warm in nature. It has the functions of nourishing the spleen and liver, producing body fluids and quenching thirst, detoxifying and stopping diarrhea. It is suitable for patients with physical weakness, insufficient body fluids after illness, cold stomach, etc. Hernia pain, lymph node tuberculosis, single board machine rash, spleen deficiency and diarrhea.

Honey is the nectar collected by bees from the flowers of flowering plants and brewed in the hive. Bees take nectar or secretions with a water content of about 80% from the flowers of plants and store them in their second stomach. Under the action of various converting enzymes in the body, they repeatedly brew various vitamins and minerals over about 15 days. When the amino acids and amino acids are enriched to a certain value, the polysaccharides in the nectar are simultaneously converted into monosaccharides glucose and fructose that the human body can directly absorb. The moisture content is less than 23% and stored in the nest hole, which is sealed with beeswax. Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar. It will crystallize at low temperatures. The crystallizer is glucose, and the part that does not crystallize is mainly fructose.

Honey collection

After bees find the honey source, they will tell their companions the direction and distance by doing the "figure eight dance" or "circle dance", so that the worker bees can be mobilized to concentrate Go to the nectar source, bring back nectar and hand it over to the storekeeper responsible for storage. The storekeeper will give priority to honey with high sugar content, and worker bees who bring back honey with low sugar content will have to wait.

Collecting nectar

It takes 20-40 minutes for bees to collect nectar each time. Then they fly back to the hive and take about 4 minutes to hand over in the hive. After the handover is completed, they go to work again. During the peak period of honey flow, there are more than ten or twenty times of work a day. When bees collect nectar, they inhale the nectar drop by drop into the sac. The amount collected each time is generally 40-60 mg, which is equivalent to body weight. Each brewing of 1,000 grams of honey requires tens of thousands of collection flights and interviews with millions or even tens of millions of flowers. There are some flowers where bees will not go, such as osmanthus. Osmanthus has no pollen. If the bees go, there will be no honey to collect.

Brewing honey

After the forager bees return to the hive, they spit out the honey to the worker bees or disperse it to several hives, where the worker bees continue to process it. During processing, the housekeeping bee first sucks the honey juice into its stomach and mixes it with the invertase, then spits it out, and then sucks it in again. It takes more than 100 turns to swallow the honey.

Honey brewing

After the brewing is completed, the worker bees temporarily store the honey in the hive, and the sucrose conversion and honey juice concentration processes continue. When the honey matures, the bees seal the hive with wax, thus completing the entire process from nectar to mature honey.