Honey, as well as any product, has the versions: forest, padevy, flower and so forth. All from them are in own way good and useful, all have the mass of useful properties. In this article we will talk in more detail about a flower look, we learn its characteristics and features.
What honey and what it happens is
From the name of sweet nectar clear that bees for its production collect pollen from flowers of plants on fields, meadows, in gardens. Its qualities and properties define plants from which bees collected raw materials for production. If when collecting one plant prevails, then the product is called monoflerny if several or whole bouquet — poliflerny.
Monoflerny
Monoflerny grades meet not so often as to a raznotravya as to find the territory seated by enough one species of the blossoming plants, hard. Besides, this plant has to blossom in a certain time when bees are not distracted by other fragrant flowers. The grade is called monoflerny when in it at least 50% of pollen of one culture, for example, akatsiyevy, heather, buckwheat, lime, crimson, sunflower.
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Poliflerny
Poliflerny honey or a raznotravya is a combination of pollen of many fragrant flowers. Such grades are distinguished on time of collecting, in the place or external characteristics. Its external qualities (aroma, taste, color) define plants which prevail in the territory of collecting pollen. Useful properties will also be caused by properties of cultures which served as suppliers of pollen.
As flower honey looks
Flower nectar usually less dense, though viscous, generally light shade.
Color
From golden and saturated yellow to brown.
Aroma
Sated, playing many shades: fruit, flower.
Taste
Tart, sweet, with long aftertaste.
Crystallization time
Poliflerny grades by winter usually become candied, monoflerny can crystallize later.
Period of collecting
The beginning of a season — the beginning of spring; collecting during the autumn period comes to an end.
Whether you know? There is a poisonous or drunk honey - it is a product, pollen and nectar for which bees collected from the plants having toxic substances in structure. As not all poisonous plants emit nectar, the poisonous kind of honey extremely seldom meets. Mass poisoning with such product was described by the commander of Ancient Greece Xenophon, he wrote about a sudden disease of the Colchis soldiers after the use of honey sweet.
Than it is useful and as influences an organism
Flower nectar contains huge amount of minerals, vitamins, enzymes, irreplaceable acids and antioxidants in the structure. Having high caloric content, it, nevertheless, does not load a stomach, is easily and quickly acquired and even promotes digestion improvement, thanks to the enzymes, necessary for this process.
Long since honey was used as preservative, keeping in it products for a long time. Such feature speaks about high antimicrobial, antiseptic properties, besides, the product possesses anti-inflammatory and wound healing actions.
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Ascorbic acid, essential oils and tannins in structure define medical action at cold, diseases of the upper and lower airways, facilitate fluidifying and an otkhozhdeniye of slime and a phlegm from lungs and bronchial tubes, create Wednesday, intolerable for life of microbes and viruses, strengthen the immune system. Potassium, magnesium, glycosides, group B vitamins favorably influence warm activity and arterial blood pressure, strengthen and give to elasticity to walls of vessels, dilute blood. The natural sweet affects soothingly nervous system, normalizes a dream. Thanks to antioxidants and vitamins A, E, health and beauty of integuments, teeth, hair and nails is maintained.
Important! Consider that as independent medical medicine honey is not used, the product can serve as powerful, but supportive application. The maximum effect will give the complex treatment determined by the specialist doctor.
How not to be mistaken upon purchase
Upon purchase, considering differences of types of a flower product, it is easy to be mistaken, but there are uniting properties which will help to avoid these mistakes:
- the real honey possesses a lung the effect irritating mucous, after tasting in a throat the irritation will be felt;
- structure of natural nectar viscous, but plastic — it is easy to wrap up it around a spoon, it will not spread immediately;
- aroma and saturated taste: neither that, nor another will have one characteristic note, and began to smell, and taste will be many-sided and saturated;
- the natural sweet by winter begins to crystallize.
It is better to carry out purchase from the direct producer. Bee-keepers value buyers therefore notorious deception is not favorable to them.
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Rules of the use
Many heard the names Honey Pie, Honey Gingerbread and know that the sweet is added to dough for cake layers and gingerbreads, cookies to impact unusual relish to a product. Natural sweetener has still advantages: first, it is more useful, than sugar; secondly, it keeps dough fresh and soft longer. However it is necessary to consider that honey is more sweet than some sugar therefore it is necessary to add it less, otherwise the dessert will turn out too luscious.
The product is often used in various marinades and gas stations to salads. Most often combine it with a dried peel of a citrus, cinnamon, cardamom, a turmeric, garlic, ginger and a coriander. Except marinade cover with it meat when frying that gives a unique spicy and sweet crust.
Honey is added to various desserts: fruit salads, mousses, puddings, cream for cakes and cakes. Do a fruit candy and nougat with nuts of it.
Whether you know? Honey is often mentioned in religious texts of Islam and Christianity: in the Quran there is a separate sura of Bee; in Christian texts the honey cells are called John the Baptist's food during a time of his asceticism in the desert; it is mentioned also in the book of parables of Solomon, and in the Bible.
Storage conditions
Honey is not stored in metal tanks, it quickly is oxidized in such environment and loses the properties. In glass, ceramic or clay capacity with densely closed cover, it is desirable at subzero temperature, without moisture and light, the honey products remain longer. It is not recommended to change storage temperature, otherwise nectar zakristallizutsya unevenly.
Application in other areas
Many in the preventive purposes daily eat in the morning a spoon of natural sweet before a breakfast, drink for maintenance of immunity — tea with a lemon and honey is also popular in the people.
Important! At preparation it is necessary to know that honey needs to be put in warm, but not hot tea: at a temperature over +60 °C it loses the majority of useful properties.
In traditional medicine
Natural medicine helps with prevention and treatment of such diseases:
- flu, SARS, ORZ;
- throat diseases (tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis);
- pulmonary disease and bronchial tubes;
- anemia;
- avitaminosis;
- endocrine diseases.
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The product is useful at problems with digestion; heavy physical activities; various inflammatory processes, including skin diseases. Its use during the recovery period after the undergone operations is shown, at nervous breakdowns, insomnia.
In cosmetology
Beekeeping products actively use in cosmetic products: cream, srub, mask, milk. Means helps to restore elasticity of integuments, feeds, cleans and rejuvenates skin, removes inflammations, bleaches, heals cracks at excessive dryness.
Honey use at massage procedures, wrappings and other a Spa procedures. Its favorable action for hair is known, at damage and dimness, loss. Masks for hair feed a hair bulb, restore structure of a hair on all its length, help to get rid of dandruff.
Other products of beekeeping also use in cosmetology. Do effective masks for improvement of face skin of a uterine milk, bee pollen and propolis.
Contraindications and possible harm
Poliflerny grades usually have more saturated structure therefore with care it is necessary to use a product such at the following problems with health:
- pancreatitis;
- gastritis;
- enterokolit;
- GIT ulcer.
Allergic persons are recommended to carry out the test for possible negative reaction. Diabetics should not be fond as products of beekeeping contain sugar. The excessive use is undesirable at the excess weight — in sweet many calories (302-330 kcal depending on structure). It is undesirable to use to the feeding mothers and children up to three years.
Curative properties of products of beekeeping are known for a long time, as medicine it was used at the time by founders of medicine (Galen, Hippocrates, Avicenna and so forth). Recognized its properties and official modern medicine, using as a part of various medical medicines.