Honey — it not only is tasty, but also it is extremely useful. But, as well as any other product, this sweet delicacy has certain grades and various structure.
One of the most expensive and useful — mountain honey.
This elite grade collected at the height more than two thousand meters has really vivifying force.
The description and the main differences from others
Distinctive feature of this useful delicacy — its extraordinary gentle taste and aroma. It is difficult to confuse it with other grades as flora of highlands is unique in the variety.
Origin
This sweet product of beekeeping is highly appreciated because of the environmental friendliness and naturalness. Mountain tops with the raznotravy — a thyme, a melissa, a rhodiola, raspberry, a hawthorn, a bird cherry, a marjoram, a sage and mint from which bees collect nectar give to people really magic product.
The birthplace of this tasty sweet is the Crimea, the Carpathians, Altai and the Caucasus. Clean air of these areas and the minimum extent of environmental pollution allow mountain honey to be not only tasty, but also extraordinary useful.
Color
Color at mountain delicacy can be a miscellaneous, it depends on the place of collecting and climatic conditions. It can be white or dairy, and can have yellow or even brown color.
Aroma
It is difficult not to learn this aroma. It is rather strong, with a rich flower bouquet and bright fruit notes. Usually in this scale the aroma of one of plants is prevailing, most often the hawthorn gets this role.
Tastes
This natural sweet differs in extremely saturated taste, at it there is a light slightly bitter taste and pleasant tartness.
Important! Honey — strong allergen therefore it is necessary to enter it into a children's diet gradually and in the minimum quantity.
Period of collecting
Bring together him throughout all summer prior to the beginning of fall, thanks to different time of blossoming of mountain melliferous herbs.
Crystallization
This product is subject to fast crystallization with formation of granules. Sometimes because of strong crystallization it becomes rather firm.
What the bee product is rich with
This sweet will suit people who watch the weight. It is low-calorie, in 100 g of a product only 290 kcal contain. At other grades this indicator 10 times more. Eating it, it is possible to sate the organism necessary micro and macrocells (fluorine, iron, calcium, manganese, copper and zinc).
It is rich and group B vitamins and also And, With are present vitamins, at this delicacy, To and E. Takzhe apple and dairy acids, and still lemon and wine are a part of this bee product.
We advise to read about curative properties of monoflyorny types of honey: akatsiyevy, buckwheat, podsolnechnikovy, chestnut, lime, dyagilevy.
Than it is useful and as influences an organism
It is difficult to overestimate importance of this product for food of patients with diabetes as honey is natural sweetener. A large amount of vitamins and natural, deprived of chemical impurity, structure allow it to have the all-strengthening and toning effect on an organism.
The sweet gift of mountains possesses expectorant action, neutralizes physical and intellectual fatigue, favorably affects work of a liver and digestive tract.
It is useful at cold, helps to struggle with insomnia and a hypertension.
Whether you know? The bee has to fly about 100,000 flowers to produce only 100 g of honey.
How to distinguish the real honey from a fake
The real mountain honey has to have special fruit aroma and a little tart taste. Color also matters when choosing a natural product — the natural mountain product seldom happens very dark color. When choosing it is worth paying attention to crystallization also. If it very liquid, then it is worth doubting its origin. It is possible to check naturalness by simple test with iodine use. For this purpose a small amount of honey needs to be dissolved in water and to add couple of drops of iodine to solution. If solution did not turn blue, then before you really safe product.
Where and as it is long possible to store
This sweet, despite the recommendations of many beekeepers to eat honey is not more senior than one year, can be kept throughout longer time, without losing at the same time the properties.
For storage it is necessary to choose glass capacity with a dense cover, not to allow overheating or overcooling (optimum temperature from +5 to +20 °C). Also capacity should not be exposed to hit of direct sunshine which influence is pernicious for a vitamin component of a bee product.
Read also about application in traditional medicine and cosmetology of products of beekeeping: a uterine milk, propolis, honey with propolis, bee pollen, a perga, a zabrus, a subpestilence.
Application
Medicinal properties of this fragrant medicine are based on contents in it a unique component — a lizotsin. Antibacterial action of this agent perniciously affects cages of pathogenic organisms, destroying their walls. It allows to use honey for treatment of a wide range of diseases and also to actively apply it in cosmetology.
In traditional medicine
Curative properties of mountain honey are adopted long ago by traditional medicine which uses this natural medicine for a set of illnesses, among which:
- insomnia;
- hypertension;
- cold;
- sciatica;
- cardiovascular diseases;
- digestive tract diseases.
Ointment with use of a natural dessert — effective wound healing remedy which is successfully applied at wounds of various origin, even burn and fire. Honey is also an effective remedy for treatment of LOR-diseases and diseases of nervous system. It has the soft somnolent effect which does not have side effects.
Important! Mountain honey — good depression medicine. One tablespoon a day will help to cope with this illness.
In cosmetology
The wound healing effect of mountain honey is irreplaceable in cosmetology where it is actively used. It softens skin, smoothes wrinkles, removes signs of an acne and pimples.
The ability of this product to intensify exchange processes allows to use it for anti-cellulite massage. This sweet component is a part of many shampoos and masks for hair and a face, and creams on its basis render considerable nutritious effect.
Also the honey bathtubs having the rejuvenating and weakening effect are rather popular.
For preparation of cosmetic masks with honey it is possible to use yogurt, strawberry, blackberry, cinnamon, oils (a dogrose, cocoa, castor, peach), essential oils (sandalwood, orange), parsley, spinach, vitamin E.
Contraindications
Basis of this product — pollen of various herbs that does it unsafe for allergic persons and small children. Besides, people need to use honey with care with heart disease, the TB patient and asthma.
Other types of honey
Except mountain there is still a huge number various elite poliflerny (the melliferous herbs collected from different types) grades which also have rich taste and can bring to an organism considerable benefit.
May
It is a unique grade which can be very seldom built in enough. It is connected over time collecting when bees are restored after long winter and use the first honey to themselves in food. Difficulties with preparation of this grade are quite justified it by curative properties. May honey successfully copes with spring hypovitaminosis and also is strong wound healing means.
Forest
This honey visually differs from other grades, it more dark also has special tart aroma. The apiaries established on forest edges allow beekeepers to collect almost eco-friendly product from a forest raznotravya. It guarantees to a product special unique taste and aroma.
Learn more about curative properties of forest honey.
Forest honey — not expensive pleasure if to compare it to other elite grades, but it is made does not mean that it is less useful. It favorably influences nervous system and increases hemoglobin level and also has the all-strengthening effect on an organism.
Whether you know? Ancient Greeks were sure that honey is capable to bring immortality.
Flower
The name says that this grade is extraordinary fragrant. (May-June) collected in peak of blossoming of the majority of plants, this product concentrated in itself all advantage of the first melliferous herbs (apple-tree, cherry, raspberry, etc.). Flower delicacy is used not only as tasty addition in food, but also helps to be restored after long diseases and significantly increases immunity.
Learn more about features of flower honey.
Mountain honey — perhaps, the best of elite grades of this sweet delicacy. The eco-friendly product which was born with the minimum intervention of the person, collected by hardworking bees far from a civilization is quite capable to compete with many medicines.