May honey takes pride of place among the other bee products.
It is most popular because it has a wonderful taste and a significant number of useful properties.
The article will tell you what the May honey is and why it is so valued.
Taste and appearance
Freshly pumped nectar has the appearance of a clear syrupy liquid. Its color is usually pale yellow or light green. It has no pronounced smell, and also does not leave a bitter aftertaste.
Important! The most valuable is honey, which is infused for 4-6 months. During this time, nectars have time to merge into one bouquet, giving a delicious mix of flavors and aromas.
Just six months after pumping out, this sweet product acquires an incredible smell, where there are notes of menthol, as well as a distinctive golden yellow color. The taste becomes tender, soft and balanced sweet. The aftertaste of this product is slightly cooling.
How to extract May honey
Nectar for this variety of bees is collected from various honey plants. These include all primroses, hawthorn, daffodils, acacias, hyacinths and peonies. In short, the suppliers of nectar for the earliest honey product are practically all prime-flowering plants.
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With all the desire to select any one honey plant will not work. This is exactly what makes the May product of beekeeping saturated in terms of tastes and aromas. You can understand when beekeepers collect honey in May from its name. This usually happens at the end of May, in some areas - at the beginning of June, that is, after the acacia fades.
Chemical composition
The chemical composition of this delicacy is quite rich. This is due to the large number of plants on the basis of the nectar of which it is made. There are more than 300 useful elements and compounds. These are vitamins, proteins, fructose, phytoncides, minerals, organic acids, enzymes, sucrose, flavonoids, etc. The caloric content of such a honey product is 331 kcal per 100 g.
Did you know? Aristotle, Pythagoras and Hippocrates belonged to those people who used honey for medical purposes. By the way, Hippocrates, who himself often used this sweet product, lived to 109 years.
What is the use?
May honey has a number of useful properties:
- It is worth noting that he is a great helper for skin problems. Possessing bactericidal and healing properties, honey composition can cope with cuts and wounds, boils, inflammations, boils and ulcers.
- Also, anti-inflammatory qualities serve well as prevention of throat problems (purulent tonsillitis, laryngitis) and catarrhal diseases. You can treat this product more seriously and ailments, such as bronchitis, influenza, pneumonia and even pulmonary tuberculosis.
- As for the spring of beriberi, the May variety will be indispensable in such cases. It will correct the appetite, positively affect the metabolism, improve immunity.
- In stressful situations, such beekeeping products will recuperate, relieve from insomnia, hysteria and overstrain.
- This product is also used in the field of cosmetology, especially its first pumping. It is part of the set of masks for hair and skin. It is also often used during SPA procedures as an ingredient in a massage tool.
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Did you know? May honey is the only variety that is reasonably, but without particular concern, people with diabetes and those who want to lose weight can use it. This is due to the fact that in the composition of this beekeeping product there is fructose. It splits quickly, practically without using insulin, and then almost instantly absorbed in the body.
How to distinguish a fake?
Choosing to buy may honey, it is very important to know how to identify a natural product and not to confuse it with a fake. It should be noted that the natural composition can be called that composition, which consists entirely of the result of the bees' labor. Insects should collect nectar from plants, while not being fed sugar. Honey, which has been standing for a long time and is not sugared, is by definition not natural.
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Experienced beekeepers are able to easily distinguish natural products from counterfeits by smell and color. Fresh, just collected natural honey is almost transparent, with a slight greenish tint. If he stands up a little - there is a steady feeling of menthol, which is the distinguishing characteristic of this variety. A natural honey product should always have a faint taste of wax.
Important! If in the fall May honey with a liquid transparent consistency is on sale - This means that it was either heated or added to the composition of impurities.
Contraindications
There are only two contraindications to the use of May honey. Firstly, it is not recommended for use by young children. Secondly, it is impossible to eat it to people who have an allergic predisposition to the products of bee life.
May honey - a product that is simply indispensable for the human body. It is a storehouse of energy and vitamin elements. It is especially useful after the winter period.
