Lime honey

Lime honey is one of the best varieties of honey, which is valued not only for its excellent taste, but also for its mass of healing properties. This bee product is produced by striped nectar workers of greenish-yellow linden colour. For the high honey indicators among the people, this deciduous tree was called the queen of honey plants. Such an honorary title of linden fully justifies: from nectar, which is collected from just one flowering tree, bees produce about sixteen kilograms of linden honey, while a whole ton of precious treats is obtained from a hectare of flowering linden.

Lime honey, as a rule, is distinguished by a light yellow or light amber color, although sometimes it can have an unusual greenish-gray shade, which is due to the inclusion of paddy honey in this natural product. Lime honey acquires an even more intense yellow color if floral honey impurities are present. The calorie content of linden honey is about 323 kcal per 100 grams of sticky product.

Fresh linden honey is characterized by such indicators as transparency, light color and a pronounced pleasant taste, in which there is often an unobtrusive note of mustard. They say that having tasted this product once, it is impossible to subsequently confuse it with any other variety of honey. The persistent fragrant aroma of linden honey resembles the eye-popping smell of linden plantings in color.

Along with heather honey, linden is considered the sweetest, as it contains about 36 percent glucose and about 40 percent fructose. Under long-term storage conditions (more than three months), lime honey begins to crystallize, turning into a practically white solid coarse-grained mass. If the acquired honey has been in a liquid state for a long time and does not crystallize, then it is unnatural.

Benefits of linden honey

In addition to the inimitable aroma and excellent taste, this product has a huge number of healing advantages. The high calorie content of linden honey is due to the high content of enzymes such as peroxidase, diastase, catalase, lipase and invertase. The benefits of lime honey for the human body are the presence of such necessary elements as carotene, vitamins of group B, E, K, as well as many other useful mineral salts and biologically active substances.

Thanks to this composition, we can confidently talk about a wide range of therapeutic applications and the useful properties of lime honey. Most often it is used as an excellent remedy for colds, because linden honey has the strongest sweatshirt, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effect. This bee elixir is indispensable for sore throat, laryngitis, bronchial asthma, runny nose, tracheitis, throat irritation and acute respiratory infections.

The antibacterial properties of linden honey allow you to use this product for problems with the gastrointestinal tract: helping to relieve inflammatory processes, it improves the condition of the gallbladder, kidneys and liver. The benefits of linden honey for people with ailments of the nervous and cardiovascular systems are obvious, thanks to the ability to relieve tension and stress, improve metabolism and help in the fight against sleepless nights.