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Acquire the best
Like all the products of the nature, honey is subject to different qualitative
levels according to the freshness, the territorial origin and botany,
the processes and of the attentions of production and workmanship.
What look at when buying honey?
If you take the time to look at the web sites that sell
bees to beekeepers, the most expensive and the best bees to buy are italian
bees especially the queen bee. So it would seem natural that you should
buy the honey the is produced by the best bees...
Look for the label that says "Made in Italy"
is should contain Italian honey or mixtures of different honeys.
It's preferable to buy crystallized honey (some varieties
crystallizes: orange , eucalyptus, chestnut , acacia, honeyed;
The products to avoid are the pasteurized recognizable
honeys because they always stay liquid and transparent, this product usually
is usually achieved mixing many qualities, and not always of the highest
level, and they are cooked at a temperature of 75- 78 degrees:
This is method allows for a big company to produce large
quantity of honey with sufficient quality liquid , therefore mixable and
stored up with facility, but without the vitamins and many important substances.
The supiour Italian honey you will recognize from the
odor, that must be sharp, prickly and strong, from the taste, rich of
tones, and not just sweet, as the industrial products
Natural honey has a yellowish and opaque color or brown-amber,
brown-chestnut , black, in each case not semitransparent, but discontinuous.
The visual examination give us detailed indications on the genuineness
and freshness.
The most important thing is the homogeneity:
Honey that has separated into a liquid of on top and a
solid on the bottom indicates an old honey, incorrectly preserved or containing
extracts with an excessively damp orimporperly mixed.
If the two areas do not seem to be mixed, we could assume
that there was a problem during fermentation caused by the elevated level
of dampness during harvest,
The effects of fermentation could
also be confirmed from the existence of little bubbles.
The defects that are less serious ones that do not invalidate the
nutrition value and characteristics are, a thin layers of whitish foam
due to little bubbles of air that were captured in the honey during the
potting. And the whitish vertical lines near the walls of the pot, due
to the contraction of the mass of honey during the process of crystallization.
Biological
What the antiparticles have got to do with the honey? Well
you need to know that also the bees have their good enemies: the most
relentless it?s the parasitic varroa of the beehive; against them till
now the apiarists have done recourse to ant parasites synthesis. The fact
is that the honey and above all the wax extends to accumulate residual
pesticide used directly, bring by the bees from the cultivation, the more
the bees are used as biological indicator of the environmental pollution.
The principal role of the apiculture is constituted from the support that
furnishes agriculture, to which should be always would owe have always
combined , the pollination work of the bees, in fact, is a precious service.
Here because the apiarists are between the greater defenders of the environment
and protesters of the out of all proportion use of the chemistry in agriculture
that poisons, with all the bugs, also the bees.
Today different apiarists in front of the phenomenon of resistance to
the antiparticles of synthesis are oriented toward use of natural techniques
on base of ossalic sour , formic sour and lactic acid in the care of the
varroasi. Our honey is biological because we use only natural substances
to hold under control the percentage of varroa.
We are concluding the phase of conversion, obligatory for law , to be
able to affix a biological guarantees seal of the corporate body certificate.
In each case is only bureaucratic formality, as always we have taken care
of our bees with natural systems , we and our children are the first consumers
of our good honey.
Since then we always use the sweet honey and strengthening glutton , emollient,
warm friend for the cold winters days, panacea of ours small daily illness
like the sore throat, cold, insomnia, stress.
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