What is white honey made from?

The name of this honey will lead some to bewilderment and confusion, since we are used to seeing this beekeeping product brown, yellow, or at least lemon. Depending on the honey plant, this honey is almost whitelike baked condensed milk.

White honey from Bashkiria is famous all over the world, where from generation to generation they pass on the traditions of beekeeping - forest beekeeping, obtaining wild honey. Refers to elite honey varieties.

It is appreciated by amateurs and professionals for its beneficial properties. What does it come from and why is it so thick? White honey is a common name for many varieties and comes from its color after candling.

The taste and color of white honey, why it got such a name

White honey immediately after pumping has a light yellow color, and is called so because becomes almost white after crystallizationlike butter. Its taste is different and depends on the honey plant. If bees took nectar from raspberry or rose flowers, the aroma of such honey is delicate. The taste is sweet, without bitterness. It melts in the mouth, leaving behind a pleasant aftertaste.

This sweetness acquires a vanilla taste if sweet clover was the honey plant. Thanks to alfalfa flowers honey has a specific sweet taste and a creamy consistency after crystallization. Sainfoin gives it a mild sweet taste. Linden honey is also sometimes called white, because after sugaring it takes on this color. The same situation is with a bribe from white acacia.

Ingredients: vitamins and minerals

Due to the fact that the honey plants of white honey are various plants, its composition is also different.

The composition contains about three hundred minerals and trace elements.

The main trace elements are as follows:

• Fluorine;
• Manganese;
• Zinc;
• Nickel;
• Chromium;
• Copper and others.

Minerals are represented by salts:

• Gland,
• Sodium;
• Yoda;
• Phosphorus;
• Calcium;

It contains large amount of essential amino acids... It contains vitamin C, B vitamins, vitamin K and E, and others.

100 g of the product contains from 280 to 320 kilocalories.

Beneficial features

In different countries white honey is valued for its honey plant... In the USA, in this respect, sweet clover is preferred. In Russia - lime and acacia.

Due to the presence of enzymes in its composition, white honey has a positive effect on digestion... It is taken for dietary procedures. If the reception was preceded by physical and mental stress, it will help restore the tone of the body. Since white honey has a healing effect due to its bactericidal properties, it is recommended to use it after injuries and surgeries.

Unlike other varieties, it useful for young children, but not for babies... At this age, you need to reduce the dose of intake by four to five times, compared to an adult. It is better to consume it in its pure form on an empty stomach, washed down after 1 minute with a glass of warm water. A hot environment is detrimental to enzymes and vitamins. Therefore, you should not dilute this sweetness in hot tea or just boiling water.

White honey helps to cope with neuroses, therefore, it is useful to take it at night before bedtime, has antiseptic properties. It successfully fights against tonsillitis, bronchitis and acute respiratory diseases.

This beekeeping product can also help restore the rhythm of the heart, the work of the intestines, liver and kidneys.

White honey - the concept is prefabricated, which includes many varieties of honey, therefore, its useful properties are different.

Contraindications and harm

White honey has the same contraindications as any other, with the exception of a low age threshold. I.e, children from one and a half years old are given it in small quantities - up to 20 grams per day. In adolescence - up to 50, an adult it is permissible for a person to eat it up to 100-110 grams. It is better if it is a three-time reception: in the morning on an empty stomach, in the afternoon before meals and at night, before bedtime.

Those who suffer from intolerance to bee products, it is better to refrain from using it. Patients with diabetes mellitus can eat it after consulting a doctor, although it contains a lot of fructose.

A healthy person should not take a lot of it thoughtlessly.... Otherwise, an allergic reaction is possible.

What does it come from, what kind of honey plant?

Since white honey has a lot of melliferous plants, the period of collecting nectar is extended in time... It starts in spring and ends in autumn.

White acacia nectar harvested in the southern regions of the country in May. It is in these territories that it is widespread, so honey is obtained without impurities. This honey plant blooms for two weeks, and the collection of nectar takes about ten days. Despite such a short time frame, bees manage to produce honey in large volumes. For example, from one hectare of acacia plantations, up to 0.8 tons of honey are obtained.

White honey also comes from linden, which blooms profusely in June-July, depending on the climatic conditions of growth. Bees collect nectar from one honeybee tree to produce up to 15 kg of honey. From 1 hectare of plantations - about one ton.

Sweet clover as a honey plant is especially valuable for its healing properties. This herbaceous biennial plant blooms in the second year all summer and early autumn. Up to 0.3 tons of honey are harvested from 1 hectare of sowing.

Another melliferous plant of white honey is alfalfa.which blooms from June to late summer. One flower blooms for two to four days. Bees take a bribe from 1 hectare of sowing, from which honey is produced from 0.1 to 0.3 tons. Have sainfoinand in terms of the yield of nectar and the timing of flowering, they have similar characteristics.

Raspberries are of particular interest to bees... It blooms from May to August, the hottest period of the year. It depends on the variety and growing conditions. In remontant varieties, the flowering period is extended. Bees enjoy collecting nectar from this plant due to its aroma. Honey is the same - fragrant, aromatic and sweet.

Storage conditions

In order to preserve the beneficial properties of white honey for a longer time, it stored at temperatures from +5 to +18 degrees.

The crystallization period depends on the honey plant and is determined by several months. Air humidity it is preferable to keep it around 60%. Direct sunlight negatively affects the structure of honey. Under such storage conditions, it retains its useful properties for one and a half to two years. The best container is glass... Food plastic is suitable for transportation and temporary storage.

What are the main diseases it treats?

White honey helps to cope with respiratory problems, helps with coughs, bronchitis, acute respiratory infections. With eye disease (conjunctivitis), it is enough to make a honey solution and rinse them several times to relieve inflammation. Suffering diseases of the gastrointestinal tract it is also beneficial because honey restores the intestinal microflora. Therefore, with gastritis, it is taken orally.

Thanks to the positive effects of white honey, metabolism is normalized, the functioning of the kidneys, heart and liver improves. Honey helps with insomnia, has sedative properties.

White honey, as the collective name of many varieties of honey, has as many unique beneficial properties. It is valuable both for lovers of sweets and for true connoisseurs of this bee product. Its use has a beneficial effect on the human body and helps to cope with many diseases.