Useful properties of black honey

Meeting a tree-shrub tartar maple (it is also called chernoklen or neklyon) near the river banks, few people know that this tree is considered a honey plant. The sweet product collected by the bees from this tree has a special unique composition and brings tremendous benefits to the human body. With its mass of beneficial properties, black-and-honey honey is a real salvation in the autumn-spring season of colds.

Let's find out its features, useful properties and contraindications to the use.

Taste and appearance

Unlike other types of beekeeping products, neclenic honey has characteristic, inherent only to him, taste and appearance. This product has a special tartness and richness of taste with a very long, sticky aftertaste and pleasant moderate sweetness.

You can also distinguish it by the light fruit aroma with a rich caramel flavor. Often heard and slightly woody fragrance.

In its dark brown color (after crystallization is dark brown) it cannot be confused with any other.

Its texture is viscous, thick, viscous and creamy, and viscosity increases with time.

How to get honey

The flowering period of Tatar maple is early - it falls in the middle of May and lasts no more than 3 weeks.

It grows unclean in mixed deciduous forests, so it is extremely difficult to find pure black maple honey in its purest form. The reason is that the bees are not very active after the winter, and the collected product is mixed in the hive with the rest of the honey.

The rarity and uniqueness of this beekeeping product can also be explained by the fact that, due to its early flowering, it is the main source of energy for the bee colony and helps it survive before the flowering of the main honey-bearing trees. So there is never a lot of non-nelen honey.

To obtain it in its pure form, experienced beekeepers take out beehives for plantings (thickets) uncleaned for its entire short flowering period. Only in such cases is obtained monoflure pure maple honey, distinguished by the special uniqueness of its beneficial properties.

Chemical composition

Neclenic honey contains such substances:

• water - up to 17%;
• easily digestible carbohydrates: fructose, glucose, sucrose, maltose, melitsitoza;
• vitamins A, E, PP, K, B1, B2, B6, B9, carotene, ascorbic acid;
• enzymes: diastasis, amylase, phosphatase, catalase, inulase, etc .;
• minerals, micro-and macronutrients: iron, zinc, potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, phosphorus, etc .;
• amino acids and antioxidants: glutamic acid, alanine, arginine, tyrosine, and others;
• organic acids: citric, malic, grape.

Caloric content of the product - not less than 325 kcal per 100 g of product.

Beneficial features

Neklenovy honey is especially valued for its unique composition. It contains more than 300 vitamins and minerals, carbohydrates, organic acids. The optimal ratio of active ingredients in the composition gives it undoubted healing properties.

The beneficial effect on the human body is as follows:

• A significant amount of "useful sugar" gives extra energy to people with great physical and mental stress.For the same reason, honey has a positive effect on the state of the nervous system and helps to combat stress, depression and insomnia;
• due to the high content of vitamins, it is prescribed as an immunostimulating agent. Vitamins help to strengthen the walls of blood vessels and influence the blood formation processes. The high content of vitamin E helps in the process of tissue regeneration after burns and operations;
• the presence of enzymes helps to normalize the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, relieve the load on the liver and pancreas, balance the indications of acidity;
• in small doses, it helps to lose weight dieting. Weight loss occurs due to improved metabolism and accelerated metabolism, and easily digestible sugars and vitamins will come to the aid of the body as a nutritious product;
• It has an anti-inflammatory effect both in oral administration and as an external agent. Inside is actively prescribed for any seasonal diseases (tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, bronchitis). As an external agent, it is actively used in cosmetology at home, or in professional cabinets as the main component in the composition of shampoos, balms, face masks, scrubs, etc.

To preserve all the useful qualities of the product for a long period will allow its proper storage. Keep it only in a glass container, at a temperature of 10-15 ° C and away from sunlight. The top (warmest) shelf of the refrigerator is quite suitable for this.

Use in traditional medicine

Honey from Chernoklena has a large number of useful properties. He increasingly acts as a remedy and is found in the recipes of traditional medicine.

So, it is prescribed to people with aggravations:

• diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
• diseases of the urinary system;
• skin diseases or in the postoperative period;
• unstable psycho-emotional diseases of the nervous system;
• catarrhal and viral diseases;
• swelling and toxicosis during pregnancy.

How to distinguish a fake

Unfortunately, unscrupulous beekeepers very often resort to fakes. There are several criteria by which you can determine the true non -lended honey:

• price - the most important criterion. It can not be low! Black honey is not often found on sale, it is a rare product with a correspondingly high price;
• Colour - dark and brown, without any light inclusions. The light color indicates that under his appearance is presented honey of mixed type or does not contain at all;
• taste - not very sweet and tart, compared with other bee products;
• consistency - thick and creamy. Liquid structure indicates a poor quality product;
• crystallization - in principle, fresh black-honey honey cannot be. This product crystallizes only a year later, so the presence of crystallization indicates that it is already at least last year’s, or a frank fake is being sold under its guise.

Buying a non-green product from proven beekeepers, the consumer will save himself from a poor-quality product.

Contraindications

Like other similar products, black-honey, in addition to useful properties, has some contraindications to use. Due to bioactive substances in its composition, the main contraindication is an allergic reaction to the components.

Also contraindications include:

• diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver in the acute stage (gastritis, peptic ulcer, pancreatitis, cholecystitis);
• diseases involving carbohydrate metabolism (diabetes);
• individual intolerance;
• age up to 3 years.

In the presence of contraindications for use, it is important to understand that with the course of diseases in milder forms, with absolute control over the state of the body, it can and should be consumed, but in small amounts.

The presence of diseases in the acute stage or allergic reactions requires mandatory consultation with a doctor about the possibility of using this beekeeping product.

So now we know the benefits of black and honey and how to avoid collateral damage. There is this product, unfortunately, not often, and has a corresponding high price.But thanks to the undoubted advantages, he quickly finds his consumer.