Pure honey is not only popular in cooking but also has healing effects.
However, since not being treated or processed raw honey to be very difficult to preserve. If well-preserved, these foods just bring food taste exquisite, delicious and just keep vitamin precious natural enzymes in honey is good for health.
Distinguish pure honey
Very easy to confuse the raw honey and organic honey. Raw honey (also known as living honey) is honey is taken directly from the hive, not heated, sterilized or processed in any way, nor to add or take away What any substance. Bottom line is that they are completely pure, may be even a little confused or identified pollen of the bees are not out of.
How to store raw honey
Like organic honey, raw honey can be kept in a long time but still delicious flavor in two years. However, compared with honey has caught the flavor and purity of raw honey decreases faster. Therefore, the need to preserve this more honey if you want to keep long. Here are some tips to help you preserve the quality of raw honey in the long run:
- Store raw honey in the bottle tightly closed, where the air entered, they will be longer if the oxygen of the water reached the fermented honey. Air and water are two factors that can make the color of dark honey and lose flavor.
- If long days, raw honey will crystallize. To slow down the crystallization of them, you do not let the ceiling dry jars of honey in the air or water exposure. Pollen levels are too high or too cold ambient temperatures may also cause honey to crystallize faster. To melt the bottle has been crystallized honey, you can put them into a pot of warm water, absolutely not use hot water.
- Bottle of honey must be made from these materials do not cause chemical reactions such as glass or ceramics, do not use containers made of metal. Metal and wood are two materials incompatible with honey because the metal will react with honey, can cause poisoning. Meanwhile, the wood will catch the smell of honey. Should regularly check in, moisture, odor and the air-tight jars of honey.
- Keep bottle away from honey scented foods such as spices, because raw honey tends to pull the smell of the food in their vicinity.
- Always let the honey jar in a cool and dark, not to direct sunlight.
- The temperature of raw honey should not exceed 27 degrees C, ideally between 21 degrees C and 26 ° C. Avoid putting them near the stove or refrigerator because heat will cause the honey flavor and darker.
- Do not use honey to the recipe in the microwave because microwaves will destroy all the nutrients found in honey.
