Why honey is not sugared and should it?

For hundreds of years, honey remains one of the most valuable gifts that nature gives man.Such a product is valued not only for its taste, it is also used in cosmetology and traditional medicine. And many people want to know more about the properties of this useful and tasty product, in particular, questions are caused by the property of honey, as sugaring. Let's tell more about this phenomenon and about honey in general.

Honey is often used as an adjunct to drugs for treating colds and flu. It contributes to the rapid increase in body resistance, adds energy. This product is also widely used as a component for nourishing face and hair masks. It is used for massage and many other procedures. Drink from milk and honey helps to get rid of a sore throat, has a calming effect on the body, helps to fall asleep faster. But all the useful qualities of honey appear only if you have purchased a quality product and stored it correctly.

There is a huge number of varieties of honey. It differs in the type of plant, from the pollen of which bees produce it. As well as consistency (liquid, honeycomb, perga). We list the most common types of honey.

Also it is called floral. The main feature of this product is a rich and very pleasant aroma. The color of meadow honey is light, golden, and the taste is amazing. In addition, this product is incredibly beneficial to human health. It can be used as an effective prophylactic in the winter, during colds.

Meadow honey also helps to strengthen the immune system, get rid of thyroid disease, restores the nervous system and quickly cope with insomnia. It is added to the menu, even for small children, to protect them from infectious diseases, unless of course allergic reactions occur.

Natural sweet honey has the most delicate taste and smell of vanilla. To make this honey, the bees collect nectar from a well-known medicinal plant - yellow and white clover. Therefore, the product itself acquires healing properties. In particular, this product helps to fight abnormalities in the respiratory tract, coughing and bronchitis. Also, the product is used as a component of complex treatment of atherosclerosis, hypertension, arthritis, migraine, constipation, etc.

This is another popular type of delicious, aromatic and healthy honey. Bees collect nectar for him from linden flowers. It contains a large number of miraculous components, thanks to which honey becomes a real healing product. The use of linden honey helps to improve the skin, and thus the appearance of the person, the rejuvenation of the body as a whole.

This honey is even more useful than liquid honey, because it contains all the valuable nutrients. Honeycomb contains not only honey, but also beeswax, oils, pollen and propolis. Therefore, honey in honeycombs is strongly recommended for people who suffer from diseases of the teeth and gums. Also, this product helps to remove harmful substances from the internal organs, to improve the work of digestion.

If you have ever had to store honey for a long time, then you probably noticed that liquid honey can be candied. This is a natural property of any real natural honey. The only difference is that each species needs a different time to thicken. For example, the sweetness of acacia can crystallize only for a year or even two. While sunflower, buckwheat, dandelion and mustard honey hardens faster than others.

The crystallization process is due to the fact that over time, glucose and sucrose, which are contained in honey, settle. In this way, The rate of crystallization is determined by the amount of glucose: the smaller it is, the longer the product remains liquid.

No matter what unscrupulous sellers say, you need to know that only honey that is not natural does not thicken. The only exceptions are honeycombs, since they themselves are a solid natural repository for healing sweetness.

We list a few specific reasons why the product is not sugared.

1. In the composition there is a sugar syrup. Quite often unscrupulous vendors dilute natural nectar with cheap syrup. This significantly reduces the cost of the product, but also significantly reduces its useful properties. To determine “by eye” the presence of sugar syrup in the composition is practically impossible; it is realistic to establish it only after a special analysis of the product in the laboratory.
2. Honey was collected ahead of time. If the beekeeper hurried and prepared the product even before he fully matured, the honey is obtained with a high level of humidity. Therefore, natural sucrose may not settle. Moreover, sometimes during long-term storage, honey just spoils.
3. The product is re-melted. Sometimes sellers again melt thickened honey after long storage, in order to pass it off as fresh. After this, the product not only ceases to thicken, but also loses most of its useful properties.

Consider the basic criteria that must be met by a place for storing healthy sweets.

• Lack of light. To keep the product as long as possible, it is strictly not recommended to keep it under the influence of sunlight. Otherwise, he will simply lose all his healing characteristics. Even if you put honey in the sun for only a couple of days, it will turn into an ordinary high-calorie sweetness.
• Dryness. If the room where the product is located will be too wet, then it will simply deteriorate, become excessively liquid and sour. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the humidity in the room does not exceed 80 percent.
• Cold. High temperature adversely affects the properties of healing sweetness and significantly reduces its shelf life.
• Purity. Naturally, food products should be stored only in clean rooms. Also, there should not be other strong odors, as the honey immediately absorbs them into itself.

If you live in a private house, then there is simply no better place to keep healing sweetness than a basement or storeroom. However, for residents of apartments, too, there are optimal options. You can put the jars in the cabinet on the balcony or in the nightstand in the kitchen. Just need to ensure that it is located far from the stove and heating appliances.

Also just the perfect place to store the product is the refrigerator. He definitely is in any apartment. In addition, there is a constant temperature and humidity inside the refrigerator. Therefore, if you still have doubts whether it is possible to store honey in the refrigerator, the answer is definitely positive.

In order for honey to be stored longer, it is important to pay attention to the choice of material for the dishes in which it will be.

• Clay This material prevents the penetration of sunlight into the container, and therefore is perfect for storing honey. However, in modern stores it is not often possible to find pottery.
• Glass. Such packaging is the most common.Glass does not emit harmful substances, non-toxic. However, transparent walls transmit light, and this will adversely affect the quality of honey. The way out of this situation is quite simple - get dark glassware and place the jars in a room where sunlight does not penetrate.
• Plastic. This is a cheap, light and affordable material that is perfect for short-term storage of products. It is better not to leave honey in plastic containers for a long time, because the material may release toxic substances over time.
• Wooden. Linden, birch and beech containers are great for storing sweets. If you want to purchase a container from other tree species, then be sure to make sure that the material will not emit essential oils, which are then mixed with honey.
• Metallic. One of the natural properties of metal is oxidation. Therefore, for the storage of food products should be selected stainless steel containers in which there are no copper, zinc and lead impurities.

Note a few simple recommendations. which will help to accurately choose high-quality honey, as well as the right to keep it.

1. Remember that high-quality honey can be bought only in season. In the summer they sell almost all types of this product. And during the winter and off-season, it is better to purchase only chestnut and acacia honey.
2. Pay attention to the texture of the product. If the product is too liquid, flows from the spoon uneven and intermittent stream, it is better to abandon its purchase. Most likely, it was diluted with water to increase the volume. Such a product will quickly deteriorate.
3. Pay attention to the region of production of the product.
4. If possible, try to always buy the healing sweetness only from a trusted seller.

If you are fans of tea with honey, then remember that if you add the product to boiling water, it will completely lose all its healing properties. And you get a sweet, tasty, but more high-calorie drink. Therefore, it is better to eat the product separately, rather than stir in the tea.

Now you know almost everything about the causes of honey sugar, as well as how to properly store such a product.

For information on how to select and store honey, see the following video.