Honey is a food product, which is partially digested in the crop honey bee nectar. It contains 13-22% water, 75-80% carbohydrates (glucose, fructose, sucrose), vitamins B1, B2, B6, E, K, C, provitamin A-carotene, folic acid. Many people prefer honey to other sweeteners because of its taste and aroma. There are different types of this good food, depending on different characteristic properties. Natural honey is a unique gift of nature, has great taste and nutritional qualities. This high-calorie food - a valuable source of carbohydrates, contains almost all the macro-and micronutrients, enzymes, vitamins, hormones, and essential oils. All the useful properties of honey are better absorbed if you eat it ac. These substances are found in it in a balanced ratio, which makes them highly effective and beneficial properties for human health. However, not all natural honey can be high quality, which is closely linked with the current state of the environment and technology of its receipt. About 300-500 years ago, in meadows, fields, and especially in the forests grew in abundance hundreds types of plants pollinated by insects. Now in many apiaries it can be found no more than 45-50 different types of honey plants. The quality of honey is highly dependent on the technology of its production and species richness of those plants. Artificial type of honey is produced by the inversion of sucrose in a weakly acid medium (additive citric acid, etc.), sometimes. Artificial honey is produced from beet or cane sugar, corn, watermelon juice, cantaloupe and other type of sugars. Artificial honey has no enzymes and odor, characteristic of the natural one. When added to artificial honey at least a small amount of natural one, it will have a faint aroma, and contain small amounts of enzymes. Tea leaves, Saint John's wort, turmeric is used for staining of honey. Watermelon, melon, and other types of artificial honey made from the pulp of fruits and vegetables. After appropriate treatment produces, good-quality food product with a sweet taste and pleasant aroma is ready. Toxic one is obtained by collecting bees from the nectar of plants containing poisonous substances, and rare. There have been cases of light poisoning in the use of honey collected by bees from the flowers of Aconitum. However, with many plants that contain toxic substances, such as henbane, hemlock, rosemary, digitalis, tobacco, and other bees usually collect quite good honey that does not cause any ill effects of the bees, or a person.
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