Honey is a traditional tonic nutrition that we are more familiar with, because it is bees collecting wild honey source plant nectar brewing, often known as pure natural, pollution-free cuisine, with the different types of honey and breeding methods, honey is divided into many categories, from tens of yuan a pound to hundreds of yuan a pound or even thousands of dollars a pound, but the definition of honey is good or bad, but it has become the biggest problem encountered by consumers, coupled with the chaos of the honey market, resulting in many consumers can not distinguish between true and false, There are also many people who do not eat honey at all.
In China, as long as someone asks what honey is good, I believe that many people first think of "soil honey", but what is "soil honey"? For this era, in fact, the definition of soil honey has undergone great changes, if you follow the past definition of "soil honey", in fact, the soil is not honey, but a beehive.
In the soil honey, according to today's classification, in fact, it is also divided into many kinds, such as the nectar of the Italian bee is also said by many people to be native honey, of course, this is not scientific, but impersonation is difficult to distinguish. Medium honey, native honey, wild honey, are all called native honey, and there are also deep mountain old honey, old honey and so on.
In fact, whether it is deep mountain old honey or adult old honey, from the literal meaning we can see that it contains a long time feeling, and the time after honey is taken out of the honeycomb must be calculated separately, so many friends will think that the longer the honey in the honeycomb, the better the quality, the honey in the deep mountains, the better the quality, so there is a deep mountain old honey and old honey, so what kind of honey can be called deep mountain honey? In fact, there are 2 conditions and 1 misunderstanding here, let's take a closer look at it now.
The two conditions here, in fact, one is about the variety of bees, and the other is about the honey source species.
First: the species of bees
In fact, in the above introduction, we have already mentioned two kinds of bees, one is the middle bee and the other is the Italian bee. The Chinese bee belongs to the unique bee species of our country, the Italian bee is a bee species introduced from Western countries, and we often say that the old honey in the mountains actually refers to the honey produced by the Italian bee.
Italian bees on a global scale, almost as long as it is a beekeeping country has been cultivated, and the Chinese honey is a unique species in China, other countries are no one breeding, we mentioned the deep mountain old honey, in fact, refers to the honey of the Chinese honey, so to meet the conditions of the deep mountain old honey, first of all, the bee species must be the Chinese honey.
Second: the type of honey source
Due to the different honey collection habits of Chinese bees and Western bees, Chinese bees are good at collecting sporadic honey sources, and Italian bees are good at collecting bulk honey sources, resulting in Italian bees that are actually not suitable for mountain survival. In the deep mountains, some are weeds, and there is no bulk source of honey, so these locations are the most suitable for Chinese bees to collect honey, if the Italian bees are in such a position, it is usually difficult to survive, because the honey source can not meet their requirements.
Therefore, the second condition of deep mountain old honey is that the honey source belongs to sporadic honey sources, such as bees farmed in the mountains, which meets another condition of deep mountain old honey.
The misconception is that many people think that honey is kept in the colony for as long as possible, and it is best to keep it for several years. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, because many friends do not know the purpose of honey collection and the process of honey brewing.
First: the purpose of honey collection by bees
Now that our country has developed, food is very abundant, and food can be bought at every moment. For honey, it is actually equivalent to the food of bees. In the past, when the countryside was backward, it was generally necessary to grow their own grain and eat it themselves, so the family was busy all year round, just to store grain, and to eat when there was no grain to eat outside, such as winter, when it rained outside, and so on.
This is also the reason why bees make honey, and it is also usually stored in honey brewing and stored, and eaten in winter or rainy days. Here many friends have a misunderstanding of honey storage, thinking that bees will always store honey in the bee colony, in fact, this is impossible, because the purpose of honey storage when the bees can collect honey in the outside world is to solve the problem of eating when there is no nectar outside, and bees will also be lazy, usually the nectar stored by bees is not much more than the local winter or summer honey shortage period.
That is to say, bees collect honey in the spring, almost eat it in the summer, collect honey in the autumn, and almost eat it in the winter, so we can't find adult old honey in the honeycomb, even if there are, it is also some corners, and it is impossible for us to eat, and even many of them are already inedible.
Second: the time it takes for bees to make honey
Because beekeepers have no experience in the past, they do not take honey when they see that there is not much honey in the honeycomb throughout the year, resulting in the honey in the honeycomb has not been much, as mentioned above, the bees collect honey in the spring and eat it in the summer; the honey in the autumn and eat it in the winter. If we don't want to replace the honey of the bees, or take honey frequently, it is obvious that we can not eat honey for a lifetime, this is not a joke, in the actual breeding, in the past many people have raised many years of bees have not eaten honey is not a lot, the main is the habits of bees do not understand.
In fact, bees do not need a year to make honey, generally speaking, in the period of the flow of honey, even if it is a Chinese honey bee, the honey brewing time is relatively long, generally 7 days down the honey can also be covered, if the honey source is not a lot, at most 15 days on the cover, and the capping of honey, means that the honey has matured.
When bees collect honey, the water content in the nectar is usually about 60%, in the process of honey making honey, the water content in the nectar gradually drops to less than 20%, when the honey is covered, the water content in the honey has reached less than 18%, this water content, has been the highest standard of honey moisture content requirements in all countries around the world, so even if the water content is less, it can not go down.
Through the above introduction, we can find that if honey has met the above two conditions and a misunderstanding, it can already be regarded as deep mountain honey. Many friends may not understand the production of honey, such as the largest italian honey in China now, the time to take honey may be less than 2 days, the use of the way of taking honey in turn is to take honey from the first box to the last box, and then back to the first box, and a honey bee of the honey farm, usually around 100 to 200 boxes of bees, from this time, even if it is half a month to brew honey, it is nearly 10 times longer than the number of honey.
So regarding the conditions of deep mountain old honey, I personally think that on the basis of meeting the 2 conditions mentioned above and 1 misunderstanding, honey has been covered for about a week, it can be called deep mountain old honey, this time, even 30 days, what do you think about this? Feel free to share your thoughts below.