There are many kinds of honey, including single flower honey and mixed flower honey. Mixed flower honey is the source of more than two kinds of honey. Is single flower honey better or hundred flower honey better? What's the difference between the two? Let's have a look at what we want to know with Xiaobian.
Which is the best honey for a hundred flowers or a single flower
Flower honey is a kind of honey with high nutritional value, so you can choose it according to your own preference. Flower honey generally has special flower fragrance, while flower honey has many kinds of honey sources, so it hardly has flower fragrance.
In the honey industry, Baihua honey does not refer to the honey with more than 100 kinds of flowers, but more than two kinds of honey. Some are blended, some are brewed by a variety of nectar. Single flower honey refers to the honey made by bees collecting a single flower. There will be honey named after a single honey source on the market.
Single flower honey has its own unique physical characteristics, such as the color of honey, its unique and fixed taste, as well as its crystallization characteristics, and so on. However, the characteristics of hundred flower honey are not obvious, and each may be different, such as taste, color and crystallization characteristics, because its honey source composition is uncertain. The honey of hundred flowers comes from the honey made by Chinese bee. Chinese bee (i.e. Bumblebee) is a unique bee species in our country. It is usually cultivated in a fixed way in the mountains. In this way, honey can only be obtained once or twice a year. The honey source in honey spans half a year or the whole year's flowering period, so it is called hundred flowers honey.
The difference between Baihua honey and common honey
The common honey is mostly single flower honey, while the hundred flower honey is multi flower honey. Single flower honey has its own unique physical characteristics, such as the color of honey, its unique and fixed taste, as well as its crystallization characteristics, and so on. However, the characteristics of hundred flower honey are not obvious, and each may be different, such as taste, color and crystallization characteristics, because its honey source composition is uncertain.
The so-called hundred flower honey refers to more than two kinds of nectar plants, and there is not a particularly prominent nectar source, which can generally be called hundred flower honey. For example, in some areas, there are almost no other crops blooming and flowing honey. You can get white locust, which is pure locust. There is a kind of Rosaceae plant in our area. It blooms and flows honey with locust at the same time. Only light yellow honey can be obtained, so it's better to call it miscellaneous locust. If the later stage of locust is taken out together with jujube and hawthorn, it may be called miscellaneous nectar or hundred nectar.
Effect and function of Baihua honey
1. Promote digestion
It has been proved that honey can regulate gastrointestinal function and make gastric acid secretion normal. Animal experiments show that honey can enhance intestinal peristalsis and significantly shorten defecation time.
2. Improve immunity
Honey contains a variety of enzymes and minerals, which can enhance human immunity after synergistic effect. The results showed that the immune function of mice could be improved by honey.
3. Improve sleep
Honey can relieve nervous tension, promote sleep, and have a certain analgesic effect. The glucose, vitamin, magnesium, phosphorus and calcium in honey can regulate the nervous system and promote sleep.
4. Promote children's growth and development
The researchers' large-scale clinical experiments show that compared with the children who eat noisy sugar, the weight, height, chest circumference, subcutaneous fat of the children who eat honey increase faster, the skin is more glossy, and less suffer from dysentery, bronchitis, conjunctivitis, stomatitis and other diseases.
5. Moistening lung and relieving cough
Honey can moisten the lungs and has certain antitussive effect. It is often used to assist in the treatment of tuberculosis and tracheitis.
6. Cardiovascular protection
Honey can expand coronary artery and nourish myocardium, improve myocardial function and regulate blood pressure.
7. Promote calcium absorption
Experts from the human nutrition center of the U.S. Department of agriculture found that honey can prevent osteoporosis caused by calcium loss in middle-aged and old women. This is because boron in honey can increase estrogen activity and prevent calcium loss.