Honey not only belongs to delicacies which can be used as a separate dessert or to add to other dishes, but also it is considered the excellent medicine containing a set of useful substances and vitamins. Find detailed information on advantage of honey for a human body, features of the choice and application of a product and also the list of the best views of irreplaceable delicacy.
Chemical composition
As a part of honey about 300 components contain therefore the product is unique and the most useful.
As a part of delicacy is:
- from 16 to 20% of water, depending on a type of a product;
- up to 80% of carbohydrates which are presented in the form: the inverted sugars from 65 to 78% (in flower) and from 60 to 70% (in padevy), from which fructose from 33 to 42%, glucose from 27 to 36%; disaccharides, polysaccharides up to 10% in the form of sucrose or usual sugar from 5 to 10%, a maltose and other disaccharides up to 7%, dextrins up to 2% (in flower), 5% (in padevy);
- nitrogenous substances in a look: albumens – enzymes and free amino acids, alkaloids;
- mineral substances (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chlorine, phosphorus, sulfur, iron, zinc, manganese, copper, cobalt, chrome, selenium, molybdenum);
- vitamins (B1, B2, B4, B6, B9, C, N, PP, A, E, D, K);
- organic acids (gluconew, acetic, oil, dairy, lemon, ant, maleic, oxalic);
- aromatic substances;
- flavonoids;
- phytoncides;
- hormones;
- lipids.
It is important! If the amount of water in honey more than 20%, exists the probability that the product will begin to ferment and will become unsuitable to the use – he will develop an unpleasant smell and a taste, the surface will become covered with foam.
Than honey is useful
That honey is a useful product, all know, but it should be taken into account in more detail what advantage is received by an organism from consumption of this delicacy.
For the immune system
Thanks to the rich chemical composition, delicacy stimulates the immune system and allows to strengthen the weakened organism. The bee product allows to maintain good health, is good prevention of viral and catarrhal diseases, accelerates process of recovery at the existing problems with health.
For digestive tract
The product has positive impact on a stomach and digestive system by means of normalization of level of acidity, the accelerated healing of wounds and ulcers, effective elimination of inflammations in a GIT. Elimination of pain is possible thanks to the natural maintenance of an antibiotic.
Taking delicacy, it is possible to achieve light laxative effect and improvement of the general condition of work of intestines, removal of toxins from an organism, harmful compounds and heavy metals, improvement of exchange processes.
For treatment of digestive tract use zabrus, a spirulina, a black mountain ash, potato juice, a mushroom of a chag, propolis, a clover meadow, a hyssop medicinal, a thistle
For a cardiovascular system
Thanks to the high content of glucose and simple sugars, the product allows to improve work of a cardiac muscle. Honey is shown to people who have an ischemic disease, myocarditis, a cardiosclerosis, arrhythmia, a hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases.
The product promotes lowering of arterial pressure, allows to improve a condition of vessels, for example, to regulate a tone of capillaries and to maintain normal permeability of walls, to have positive impact on a myocardium.
At a hypertension recommend to use beet juice, beet, unab, a cranberry, broth of leaves of a sea-buckthorn, a black-fruited mountain ash, sweet cherry, a bee perga, a feijoa, cape gooseberry.
For a brain
The advantage of delicacy for a brain is caused, first of all, by the high content of carbohydrates which allow to restore quickly forces after intellectual loadings. After the use of a bee product, tryptophane turns into hormone the serotonin increasing mood, stabilizing an emotional state, increasing attentiveness, ability to perceive information.
Iron provides operability of the left cerebral hemisphere which is responsible for logical thinking.
Important! Dark grades of honey contain the maximum quantity of iron, especially allocate buckwheat.
Holin stimulates work of the nervous terminations and cages and is necessary for short-term memory. Low contents it is well-cared in a human body can lead to a scattered state, forgetfulness and insomnia.
For nervous system
The omega-3 and calcium which contain in a bee product allow to improve performance of the main functions by nervous system. Bee delicacy also allows to strengthen nervous cages. High content of glucose and fructose, interacting with vitamins and mineral salts, promotes restoration of qualitative food of cages, allows to strengthen oxidation processes, to reduce excitability of the nervous terminations, to adjust a dream, to lower irritation. Thanks to the calming action, the product promotes prevention of development of nervous breakdowns.
For an urinogenital system
The use of a product positively influences an urinogenital system and allows to cure nephrite, cystitis. Especially mark out its advantage for men. Delicacy allows to improve processes of blood circulation in an urogenital path therefore well helps with treatment of sharp and chronic forms of prostatitis and the first stages of a giperplaziya of a prostate.
Learn more about useful properties and application of bee products: a zabrusa, a bee perga and pollen, a uterine milk, a bee subpestilence, propolis, honey with propolis.
For bones and teeth
Honey is an excellent product for prevention of dental diseases, allows to cope with caries if to use this product in total with other actions appointed by the expert. Some people prepare means on the basis of delicacy for bleaching of teeth. The product allows to get rid of inflammatory process, to reduce sensitivity of a surface of gums, to thereby prevent their bleeding. Thanks to the anesthetizing properties the bee product kills a toothache.
The high content of calcium in honey allows to make bones stronger, promotes fast treatment from rheumatism and joint pains, is prevention of bone flu and tuberculosis, growth inhibition of bones and osteoporosis.
Important! It is necessary to remember that tooth pain is a symptom, but not an independent problem therefore it is possible to use delicacy as anesthetic only till that time until you see a doctor for a solution and elimination of the prime cause of pain.
For skin and hair
Honey is good means to purify leather from surplus of fat, to eliminate dark dots, grease traffic jams and other pollution. Masks on the basis of delicacy protect cages from moisture loss, eliminate signs of peeling and dryness, interfere with appearance of wrinkles. Thanks to improvement of a metabolism in an organism and high content of necessary enzymes, there is a stimulation of exchange processes in hypodermics that stimulates processes of synthesis of elastin and collagen, restoring the damaged sites of skin. The formic acid and sugar which are contained in a bee product can have bactericidal effect on skin and allow to use a product in the course of treatment of skin diseases, scratches and other damages.
Hair need such minerals as sulfur, calcium, zinc, manganese, iodine, group B vitamins, amino acids, proteins and other useful components which in a large number are present at honey. For this reason this product is often used in treatment of hair that allows to make them elastic, brilliant, to accelerate growth processes.
For rinsing of hair it is possible to use infusions of a sage, a marjoram, thyme, a lyubistka, a tea mushroom, solution of apple cider vinegar.
For organism youth
Thanks to rich biochemical structure of delicacy, it allows to strengthen regenerative processes in an organism, to remove the damaged cages and to replace them with new in accelerated. Thus there is an improvement of health, strengthening of health, increase in resilience of an organism to diseases, normalization of weight, improvement of a condition of skin, thereby the organism becomes healthier, rejuvenates.
Top-10 types
There is a set of types of honey, but will consider the most useful and popular of them.
Whether you know? To produce 100 g of honey, the bee needs to process more than 100 thousand flowers.
Akatsiyevy
The product from an acacia belongs to refined types, will not confuse it with any other honey. Has the fragrant aroma reminding an acacia flower smell with gentle, pleasant taste. External characteristics depend odes of a type of an acacia where flower pollen was collected.
Akatsiyevy delicacy differs in transparency, in the course of crystallization gains fine-grained consistence and white color. Slow crystallization, in liquid state remains within a year that connect with the low content of sucrose and a large amount of fructose.
Acacia honey very tasty and fragrant, we recommend to learn its features and useful properties.
Cornflower-blue
The grade from cornflowers in pure form cannot almost be found, it always has a certain part of impurity of nectar from flowers of other plants as clean cornflower-blue meadows meet rather seldom. Delicacy from a cornflower has a light almond smell which is not similar to a smell of usual honey, is characterized by slightly luscious taste, after the use, in a mouth the bitterness, and in a throat – irritation remains. Has the lightest color with a subtle, greenish shade.
In delicacy a large amount of fructose is concentrated therefore the long time a product remains in liquid state, crystallization begins on the expiration of 3 months after pumping.
Buckwheat
Honey from a buckwheat can easily be found in sale. The product is characterized by the pleasant smell reminding aroma of flowers of a buckwheat. Because the product contains many mineral substances, its color rather dark – from amber to saturated brown, is frequent with an orange shade. This grade luscious on taste, with spicy tart smack, after its use in a mouth appears slightly bitter taste, in a throat – irritation.
It is characterized by rather fast crystallization as the amount of glucose in a product is higher, than fructose.
Learn, than it is useful and from what buckwheat honey helps
Dyagilny
Delicacy from dyagilya has rather sharp, saturated, but at the same time pleasant aroma, is characterized by specific taste, with easy bitterness and caramel notes. After the use in a mouth there is aftertaste of candies. Color can be a miscellaneous, beginning from brown-red to saturated-brown, the greenish shade is in certain cases traced.
Such product a long time remains in liquid state, at the beginning of spring it gains the most dense consistence with very small kristallika.
Read for what dyagilevy honey is used, also what it has useful properties.
Chestnut
The taste of sweet from a chestnut cannot be confused with any other honey, it rather bright, after the use remains the knitting, bitter aftertaste. Color is the most dark, sated with a reddish shade. A smell not all to liking, it rather tart and sharp, does not remind pleasant aroma of the blossoming chestnuts at all.
The product has very liquid consistence, but the long time is in liquid state, only for the second year of storage small crystals are formed.
Learn more, about advantage of chestnut honey for a human body.
Crimson
Honey from raspberry is not really widespread in sale, but belongs to the most tasty types. The aroma very much reminds a smell of berries of raspberry, very gentle and pleasant. The product has beautiful light-golden color.
On taste nectar sweet, but not luscious, does not taste bitter. Crystallizes on the expiration of 2 months after pumping, gains dense consistence with small crystals, gentle and cream color.
Honey of white color turns out from a marjoram, a clover, a dogrose, an acacia, raspberry, the tributary and others.
Lime
White honey is one of the most widespread types. The product is characterized by saturated lime aroma which you will not confuse with anything. Color is slightly yellowish, sometimes with a greenish shade.
At taste there is a slightly bitter taste, but aftertaste always pleasant. Crystallization happens on the expiration of 6 months after pumping, process of a zasakharivaniye rather slow. Color of crystallized delicacy can get a white or golden shade.
We advise to learn what properties white honey has
Dandelion
The dandelion honey produced by bees in pure form in the nature does not meet therefore from dandelions cook jam which is called honey. It is connected with the fact that the product turns out very similar to bee, yellow saturated color and rather dense consistence. Such delicacy has characteristic pleasant aroma of flowers of a dandelion, sweet, but not luscious taste.
Podsolnechnikovy
Honey from sunflower is characterized in bright yellow color which can get a mustard or golden shade over time. The taste is rather sweet, with easy fruit notes with tart aftertaste.
The aroma is flower, distinguished, fresh. Product very quickly