The difference between Chinese honey and Italian honey

Native bees are also called Chinese bees: they are native bees in China. Native honey is the honey produced by Chinese honeybee, also known as Chinese honey, referred to as Chinese honey. [Italian bee] is an Italian bee that has been introduced into China, referred to as Italian bee. Italian honey is the honey produced by Italian bee, also called Italian honey. Only collect a single flower, such as locust honey, rape nectar and other single nectar. Today, I learned the editor to teach how to distinguish between Chinese bees and Italian bees.

The difference between Chinese honey and Italian honey:

From the appearance of honey, earth honey is solidified and sticky, and it is mixed honey, which is mixed with pollen, propolis, beeswax and other ingredients, while the Italian honey on the market is thin and transparent, has a large moisture content and has a single ingredient; the freshly harvested soil honey has a strong flavor of Chinese herbal medicine and has four flavors of sweet, sour, bitter and spicy, while Italian honey has a common taste, single taste and very sweet. [from the point of view of crystallization and color] after crystallization, the particles of earth honey are as fine as fat and as moist as cream, while Italian honey has larger visible particles when it crystallizes. From the perspective of color, native honey has three colors: yellow, white and red; [yield and price] the nutritional value is high, and the number of Italian bees raised in China is much larger than that of Chinese bees, and the yield of single group is much higher than that of Chinese honeybees, plus the fragrance of medium honey is stronger and more nutritious. Therefore, the price of Chinese honey is relatively higher than that of Italian honey. In particular, most of the Chinese honey does not take low concentration of honey to artificial processing and sale, the feeding process almost does not use bee medicine, less drug pollution, more favored by consumers.

[the difference between Chinese bee and Italian bee] the center has lived in China for thousands of years. The collection of flowers has been fully brewed and covered with mature soil honey with dark yellow color, unique taste, mellow flavor and high concentration. This honey is different from Italian honey sold in supermarkets. People who do not keep bees may not know that there are many kinds of honeybees. In our country, most of the Italian bees (Italian honeybees) imported from abroad are used for commercial breeding in our country. That kind of honeybee is easy to raise in large quantities and has a high yield, and its yield is several to ten times that of Chinese honeybees under the same conditions, so most of the domestic apiculture farms are raising Italian bees.

The so-called Chinese bee, which is the abbreviation of Chinese honeybee, is a native bee in China, and most of them live in the wild in many parts of our country. The honey produced by Chinese bee (that is, Chinese honey) is delicious and nutritious, and it is also described in Compendium of Materia Medica. It has good efficacy and is the first choice of honey introduced by medicine, which can not be compared with the kind of honey sold in supermarkets and stores. Because the real Chinese bee artificial breeding is difficult, the yield is low, and does not produce royal jelly, so the breeding quantity is very small, but the quality is much higher than that of Italian bee.

[characteristics of wild native honey] [different states] Earth bees like to collect sporadic honey sources, and their brewing process is natural without human intervention. The weather, the direction of the sun, the altitude, and the time of collecting honey all determine the difference in color, taste and state. Wild native honey collects thousands of wild plant nectar on the mountain and harvests it when it is fully mature. it does not need to be processed and concentrated, brewing for a long time, cut honey once a year, has a high concentration, has a strong antibacterial effect, and can be stored for many years without deterioration. (mature and uncrystallized liquid state of wild soil honey and gravel crystallization state of wild soil honey)

[limited production] it is impossible to seek the output of wild native honey. Why? because when all kinds of conditions are satisfied, a barrel can produce no more than 20 jin of honey a year, and a mountain with a radius of 100 kilometers can hardly produce 10,000 jin of honey a year. And if empty buckets are placed on the mountain, it is also unknown whether bees can build nests and make honey, so their output is naturally much lower than that of large-scale beekeeping farms. Things are vaguely precious, small and fine, in order to make honey have the top quality, naturally can not go to get honey every few days, such honey is honey, high water content, easy to sour deterioration.

The wooden barrel culture method of wild native honey, which is our old ancestors used the living habits of soil bee caves and burrows to simulate the living environment of bees, so that they can serve human beings. Soil bees are very sensitive to environmental pollution, so the general breeding places are all natural and pollution-free environment. In the new method of living frame culture, there is a certain distance between the single layer and each group in the mountains, under the big trees or under the eaves, while the Italian bees are placed in the open space. Honey saw a lot of Western bees daring to rush flowers everywhere in cars, and that is undoubtedly Italian bees.) Old-fashioned barrel farming, placed in the mountains, sometimes wild bees come to settle down, and bee farmers get an extra harvest when they take it back.)

[Chinese bee farming and Italian bee farming] [Chinese bee] traditional hand-cut honey, bees give people sweetness, people report it with gentle, light techniques, maintaining the original taste and nutrition of honey, but also minimize the damage to soil bees in the process of honey extraction. The honey shaker used in industrial production is produced in batches with high efficiency. The wooden frame culture of Italian bees in special farms is characterized by large honey production and short honey production cycle, which can produce royal jelly, propolis and other products, while native bees can not, the honey production cycle can be shortened to three or five days, and Italian bees prefer large-scale single flower honey sources, so its nutrition and health function is much worse than that of native honey produced once in a spring and autumn. The Italian bees are neatly arranged on the two floors in the picture below.

[different feeding] Wild native bees are extremely picky about their diet and only eat their own honey. If beekeepers can't leave them enough food when they cut honey, the bee population will have a great famine and their disaster will come. Italian bees are different. Italian bees not only eat honey, but also eat sugar. In order to increase production, large farms put in a large amount of white sugar every day, so that bees can quickly synthesize honey. So the honey you eat is just sugar.

[using honey sources to distinguish] if in the mountains, where there are no large-scale honey sources, Italian bees are very difficult to survive, while wild bees are different. large-scale beekeeping farms all have their own nectar bases, and nectar bases are artificially planted. For example, jujube nectar is generally an artificial jujube base, as well as rapeseed bases and so on. Therefore, the paradise of mountain and earth honey is in the landscape, not in the farm.

[storage time] Scientific research and practice have proved that wild native honey has strong antibacterial ability and is the only food in the world that will not deteriorate. There is no strict expiration date.

Source: rural tourism in Zunyi