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  Honey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greece is famous for wild thyme honey, as is France for lavender and acacia honey.
Honey is the main ingredient in the alcoholic beverages, mead, which is also known as "honey wine", and methelgin.
Local raw honey is sought after by allergy sufferers as the pollen impurities lessen the sensitivity to hay fever.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honey   (1657 words)

  
 Honey - the large food & drink encyclopedia
Honey is actually sweeter than table sugar and has attractive chemical properties for baking.
The main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, spreading on bread or toast, and adding to various beverages such as tea.
Because honey is hygroscopic (drawing moisture from the air), a small quantity of honey added to a pastry recipe will retard it from becoming stale.
www.netmoon.com /recipes/encyclopedia/h/honey.html   (1820 words)

  
 Merits of Honey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Honey has also been used extensively in the eye clinic of the Omsk Medical Institute (Maximenko) to treat herpetic and uncerous keratitis, and as a means of resorption in cases of opacity of the cornea or vitreous body, immature or initial cataract, and burns affecting the eye.
Honey can be used as a remedy, or as part of the diet, in the treatment of several gastro-intestinal ailments, for instance in cases of gastritis or gastric ulcer in which there is hyperacidity.
A preparation of honey from which the proteins have previously been extracted is frequently used to prevent the radiation sickness that often develops in patients during radiation therapy, an intravenous injection of 10 ml of a 20 to 40 per cent solution of this preparation being administered before each session of the course of treatment.
www.haroonsaadiq.com /quran/honey.htm   (5407 words)

  
 Articles - Monofloral honey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Monofloral honey is a type of honey which has a high value in the marketplace because it has a distinctive flavor or other attribute due to its being predominately from the nectar of one plant species.
Tupelo honey from the southeastern United States is prized because it is extremely slow to crystallize.
Rata Honey Southern Rata is one of several species of Rata found in New Zealand but is the one that most regularly produces a honey crop, although even this honey is sometimes in very short supply.
www.cateringa.com /articles/Monofloral_honey   (1360 words)

  
 Kimpton Brothers - Honey FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This is because honey of the same flower type may vary from country to country because of differences in climate and soil; a polyfloral honey from one country may have a distinct combination of plant source to give a unique flavour.
Honey has a moderate glycaemic index value meaning that its carbohydrate is digested and absorbed at a moderate rate of the body.
However, honey is susceptible to physical and chemical changes during storage; it tends to darken and lose its aroma and flavor.
www.kimpton.com /HoneyFAQ.htm   (648 words)

  
 Monofloral Honey Definitions
For a honey to be identified as a monofloral honey type, e.g.
Pollen analysis is a valuable tool for honey identification, however it should be pointed out that this is a complex subject and is always used in conjunction with other information before a final determination is made.
As sugars in solution (the main component of honey) are poor conductors, any minerals present in the honey aid the ability of honey to conduct electricity.
www.airborne.co.nz /monfloralhoneydef.html   (1262 words)

  
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Honey from each of the hives was bottled and stored at room temperature in the dark; analysis of raspberry pollen and procymidone (by microscopic and GC analysis, respectively) in the honey was carried out after 1, 3 and 15 months.
The present uncertainty in interpretation of results from pure honey with delta 13C values outside the generally accepted limits for pure honey of -27.5 percent to -23.5 percent is eliminated; likewise TLC testing to resolve questionable samples with delta 13C values between -23.5 and -21.5 percent is not needed.
The limon blossom honey, with a 40 percent of pollen of Citrus limon and Frugal honey, with a 35 percent of pollen of Prunus-Pyrus, could be typical monofloral honeys from those harvested in the Region of Murcia.
metalab.unc.edu /pub/academic/agriculture/entomology/beekeeping/general/National_Honey_Board/honref.txt   (16634 words)

  
 Struan Apiaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The best and most expensive honey is monofloral (single flower) that is made predominantly, and legally according to Hamish Robertson with a content of no less than 75%, of the nectar of the flowers of a single species.
Polyfloral (many flower) honey is produced from several different species of flowers from within an area; and blended honey comes from different flowers and different places and is then mixed together by a honey packer resulting in a bland indistinctive product that generally lacks character and vitality.
What I did grasp is the importance of seeding honey to stop it from turning granular; the tongue-test is all-important for as he says,'rub a little on your tongue, it should be as smooth as butter'.
www.foodloversbritain.com /organisations/organisation-1169.html   (599 words)

  
 Pure Varietal Honey and Information on Honey Bees, Beekeeping, and Pollination.
Honey bees naturally dwell in the hollow spaces of trees as social colonies of one fertile queen, a few male drones for mating, and many sterile females.
In commercial beekeeping, bees are transported by truck from one region of the country to another to let their bees collect flavorful nectar for making honey, to overwinter their bees in southern climates, and to pollinate farmers crops.
Blended honey is that you'll find in supermarket chains, and does not provide the unique taste of varietal "monofloral" honey.
www.apptrav.com /honey-bees.html   (845 words)

  
 Honey Adulteration - Part n°5 - S.P.M.F. - Syndicat des Producteurs de Miel de France
In effect, either honey is an agricultural product(as is a pear, a lettuce or wheat), and in this case it is for the GB VI to govern, or it is an Industrial product(like the syrups of maize, cane sugar and rice), where the GB III are legitimate in their role.
The higher the HMF or humidity levels the cheaper the honey, since, normally it is destined for industry under the designation of industrial or baker’s honey.
Filtration: At extraction,(that is to say in the honey house of the Beekeeper) the honey passes through a filter(800 microns to 1mm.mesh) made from nylon or stainless steel: The craftsman’s equivalent to the household sieve.
www.beekeeping.com /spmf/adulteration_5.htm   (4548 words)

  
 Honey - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Tasmanian leatherwood honey is considered a delicacy for its unique flavour.
Most vegans consider honey to be an animal product.
Honey may also be used in homemade beauty remedies and as an inexpensive anti-acne treatment 1 (http://www.pioneerthinking.com/nhb_beauty.html).
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Honey   (1741 words)

  
 61D-2 Comparison of three different monofloral honeys and botanical origin of propolis in same honeycombs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Bee honey is a complex mixture of chemical components and all sorts of components and the proportion varies with different floral origins.
The objective of this work was to investigate chemical compositions of three different monofloral honeys such as Citrus, Eucalyptus, and Baccharis honeys, including propolis from respective honeycombs in Southeastern Brazil and botanical origin of propolis.
Honey samples were prepared by Amberlite XAD-2 and Sephadex LH-20 column and the propolis samples were extracted with 80% methanol.
ift.confex.com /ift/2002/techprogram/paper_10646.htm   (362 words)

  
 Vipers Bugloss Honey :: SoundVision.com Shopping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Honey from a blue flower with a strange name.
The nectar of the Honeydew plant of New Zealand's South Island is resposible for this honey's earthy flavor and high mineral content.
The honey has a delicate flavor with a “chewy” texture.
www.soundvision.com /shop/pview.asp?item=9500-005   (162 words)

  
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The honey is extra light amber to white, has that unique "lavender" essence and crystallizes into a very smooth texture.
One remarkable conclusion found by E. Barbier was that honey bee visitation results in an increase in essential oils in the lavandins.
Honey bees began signaling environmental problems as early as the 1800s, when farmers began spraying insecticides that contained trace metals.
apis.ifas.ufl.edu /apis97/apjul97.htm   (2510 words)

  
 Types of honey English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
produces monofloral honey, from trees of the Monte, with different colors – each sort delicious but of distinct taste.
Here, in the heart of the "Impenetrable" or "Monte" (as the area and its flora are called locally) we produce honey, exclusively based on the nectar of flowers and trees of the Monte.
Honey from the "Monte" has always been used by the natives of the region as a natural remedy for a variety of aliments.
www.chaco.gov.ar /ComercioExterior/MielDeMonte/tiposE.htm   (158 words)

  
 Apicolex S.R.L Agriculture Products Processing
The founder and manager of the company has a 20 years of experience in the beekeeping field.
Our company produces and markets natural honey(monofloral honey(acacia honey, linden tree honey, Sunflower honey), polyfloral honey) and other products derived from honey.
The products are 100% naturals; we do not add any chemical substance(antibiotics free), our long time experience and skills assures the conservation of the honey, wihout altering, in any manner, it's healthy properties.
www.alibaba.com /company/10213303.html   (271 words)

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