Sihaiwang: the honey we often eat is generally ordinary honey. Earthy honey is not very common. Earthy honey is rare. It doesn't need artificial feeding. Let's have a look. What's the difference between ordinary honey and native honey we usually eat?
The difference between native honey and common honey
1. The collected honey is collected by the wild wasps, also known as the Chinese bee. It is small in size, black in back, strong in adaptability, and can reproduce from generation to generation without artificial feeding. Common honey is generally collected by Italian bee, which is large in size, yellow in back, poor in adaptability and needs artificial feeding.
2. Honey brewing cycle soil honey has a long brewing cycle, which is difficult to distinguish flower species, generally wild flowers. The period of making honey of common honey is short. It can be divided into jujube nectar, linden nectar, glaze nectar, locust nectar, etc.
3. Honey color: most of the honey mixed with pollen and beeswax is golden yellow and dark red, with bright color and no turbidity. Italian honey is light and transparent.
4. Honey appearance: the earth honey is thick, delicate and solidified. It is a mixture of honey, pollen, propolis, beeswax and other ingredients. Italian honey is thin and transparent, with large water content and single ingredients.
5. Honey taste: soil, honey, miscellaneous flowers, many substances, strong Chinese herbal flavor, four tastes of sour, sweet, bitter and hot. The taste of Italian honey is common and single.
6. Honey crystal soil after honey crystal, the particles are fine, delicate and soft. When the nectar crystallizes, there are larger visible particles.
7. Honey is a kind of honey with mixed flowers, which contains more complete flower materials, minerals, amino acids, etc. Therefore, its nutritional value is higher than that of Italian honey.
8. Honey yield and price: the yield of local honey is small, the nectar of flowers is fragrant and thick, more nutritious, and the price is relatively high. The production of common honey is large, leading the main market of honey.
The function and effect of earth honey
1： Eliminate fatigue and enhance physical strength.
2： It is good for brain and intelligence, and improves memory.
3： Oral, digestive and intestinal diseases.
4： It has natural antibacterial and antiseptic effect, and enhances immunity.
5： It can prolong life, keep fit, strengthen ambition, slow down aging and promote longevity.
6： Improve gastrointestinal function, treat constipation, reduce constipation, clear away heat and detoxify.
7： It can nourish the liver, protect the liver, improve the liver function and regulate the chronic hepatitis.
8： It can regulate and improve the nervous system, promote sleep and be effective for insomnia and dreaminess.
9： Improve the growth and development of children, promote digestion and absorption, and prevent malnutrition.
10： Beauty, moistening, anti wrinkle and spot removing, nourishing blood and Qi, improving anemia.
Characteristics of earth honey
1. Soil honey production is rare.
2. Earth honey is much more delicate.
3. Wasps do not need artificial feeding.
4. The wasps live in mountainous areas, so they have less pollution, more scattered honey, less flowers but more varieties, so they have more nutrients. The so-called medicinal honey lies in the fact that the flowers collected by the wasps are very clean.
5. The cold tolerance of bumblebee is very good for the utilization of Eurya honey (Osmanthus fragrans) in winter and spring, but not for Italian bee at all.