With the continuous development of the network, now what products have begun to enter the visualization, people's lives have also entered the visualization stage, many products we not only know the retail price, but also know the "industry price", just like the honey that the bee tribe Xiaobian wants to introduce to you today.
In the past honey in our eyes are very high-end products, at least in each era is a very high price of things, to today the price of honey to many people to give the impression of more than 100 yuan a pound is considered to be the real honey, but the market low-priced honey is not a lot, especially now the network is developed, some beekeepers and buyers have disclosed their own acquisition data and sales data, so that many consumers are surprised, the original so-called honey, the real is only the price of cabbage, for the "industry", The purchase price of honey is innumerable in single digits, and the high-priced honey has begun to become less and less, and the honey market is more mixed, and many friends have given up eating honey.
In fact, through the current network platform we can find that 5 yuan a pound of free shipping honey is not much, these through the regular platform sales of honey, to say fake, in fact, may not be large, after all, now our country's food safety is still very important, once which platform really sells fakes, the punishment is still very strict, so as long as it can be really sold online, false may not be big.
In fact, the real reason why the price of honey is too low now, many friends know that the key is to take "water honey", about the difference between bee species, this is not to be questioned, and the relationship with bee species is not large, the small editor of the bee tribe believes that the key reason is still in taking "water honey".
Although it is not allowed to take "honey", but for the bee breeding industry, it seems that beekeepers take "honey" is an open secret, and now the honey on the market, want to export or sell on the shelves, must go through the concentration process, and the key to concentration, but also in the honey content is too high, simply put, is the honey sold on the market today, mainly for "honey".
When it comes to the "honey" problem, consumers can be said to be scolding, and even refuse to buy honey, but some friends who like honey are really difficult to give up honey, so they want to know how much worse the nutrition of honey than mature honey? Today, the small editor of the bee tribe will combine the honey picking habits of bees and the formation process of honey to calculate it for you, hoping to help everyone.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" >what is "honey"</h1>
Before we talk about today's problem, let's first understand a key word mentioned many times above, that is, "honey". Honey for many friends may not have heard of, it should be said that it is a new word newly invented in the bee breeding industry, there was no word in the past.
The production of honey is mainly related to the honey brewing by bees, because the purpose of honey collection by bees is to brew honey, and the bees collect the nectar of the honey source plants from the wild and return to the honeycomb to brew mature honey, which requires a process, our so-called mature honey, is fully brewed by the bees, reaching the relevant standards of honey, and honey is honey that has not been fully brewed by bees. The main difference is whether it has been adequately treated by bees.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > "honey" nutrition from the honey formation process</h1>
From the perspective of the formation process of honey, in fact, the formation process of honey is mainly divided into two parts, one part is chemical change, and the other part is physical change.
(1) Chemical changes: We all know that the raw material of honey is nectar collected by bees, and the main component of nectar is mostly sucrose, but honey in the bee colony, in fact, the content of sucrose is very small, that is to say, the process of honey making honey by bees makes the nectar originally based on sucrose components become mature honey based on glucose and fructose.
In fact, the reason why nectar changes from sucrose to glucose and fructose mainly lies in the role of bee active enzymes, bees will continue to swallow nectar when making nectar, this process will continue to mix with bee saliva into the nectar, and the saliva of bees is rich in invertase, sucrose-based nectar, it is under the action of these invertases, it is decomposed into honey based on glucose and fructose, which is the chemical change of honey brewing.
(2) Physical changes: from the water content, the water content of honey and the water content of nectar are not the same, in general, if the sugar content of nectar is too low, bees will not collect, usually the sugar content is less than 8% of the nectar, even if there is honey bees will not collect, which is why sometimes we see that the flowers have bloomed, but there is no bee collection.
For the nectar collected by bees, the sugar content in the nectar after the flowering is generally accumulated, rising to more than 15% before the bees are collected, but the enthusiasm of the collection of this nectar bee is still not high, usually the nectar collected by the bees in large quantities, its water content is more than 40%, in fact, the main ingredient in the nectar is sugar and water, and the other ignores We can know that the nectar newly collected by the bees is about 60% sugar content.
For mature honey, we all know a more familiar data, that is, 18%, this data is actually the water content in honey, that is, bees brew nectar into mature honey, covered with wax, the water content in the honey is less than 18% at the whole time, which is the standard of honey maturity, and the main components in honey at this time are glucose and fructose.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > how much worse is honey than ripe honey? </h1>
Now let's take a look at how much worse honey is than ripe honey. In fact, if we look closely, we will find that the differences in the water content are mainly the differences in the water content, the differences in the composition of the bees, and the differences in the composition and division.
(1) Difference in water content: In terms of water content, the water content of newly collected nectar is more than 40%, while the moisture content of mature honey is 18% to 20% (the moisture content of honey common in the industry), in general, in terms of water content, the water content of mature honey is almost half lower than that of honey, which is one of the differences.
(2) Bee added ingredients: in the detection of honey, honey active enzyme is used as a criterion for the judgment of honey good or bad, from the above introduction of the formation process of honey we are not difficult to find, the earlier the honey honey time, the less the number of active enzymes added by bees, just like now many Italian bee breeding in turn to take honey, the content of active enzymes in honey is very small, this is another difference between honey and mature honey, how much difference between specific active enzymes, which is difficult for us to judge, Because different beekeepers have different ways and times of honey extraction, it can only be said that the shorter the time of honey extraction, the lower the content of active enzymes.
(3) Differences in composition: As mentioned above, the main component of nectar is sucrose, and the main component of honey is glucose and fructose, sucrose into glucose and fructose is produced under the action of bee active enzymes, and this process takes time, the longer the time, the more sufficient the natural transformation, in the normal honey, China's use of the "national standard for food safety - honey GB14963-2011" requires that the sucrose content is less than or equal to 5%.
Obviously, if the beekeeper takes a large amount of nectar, it will inevitably lead to a short conversion time of nectar, and a lot of sucrose has not been converted into glucose and fructose, then the main component of this honey may not be glucose and fructose, and the sucrose content may exceed the standard.
Of course, our algorithm is still only based on the normal honey collection of bees after the situation to calculate, but in the actual breeding usually involves bees feeding sugar, honey for concentration, etc., in different cases, the composition and nutritional changes of honey are naturally different, in fact, many friends are still very concerned about another problem, because a lot of honey is recycled by the buyer, usually into the honey manufacturer, and then after high temperature concentration into our common commodity honey, then after high temperature concentration of commercial honey How much worse is its nutritional value compared to honey and ripe honey? The recent article Bee Tribe Xiaobian will share with you, pay attention to us, a self-media dedicated to exploring the magical world of bees, we will see you tomorrow.