Honey: product expiration date

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Today we will not focus on the useful, and sometimes simply priceless qualities of honey. Its properties to heal people are worthy of a separate description. The focus of our attention is the question of how long the shelf life of honey.

Very often you can hear the opinion that the longer this product is stored, the weaker its beneficial properties for the human body become. Nothing like this! Real (natural) honey, if properly stored over the years, only enhances its positive properties to affect people's he alth. Not so long ago, while excavating the Egyptian pyramids, archaeologists accidentally discovered that honey can have an unlimited shelf life. Imagine a product that has stood hermetically sealed in cool darkness and has not lost its unique properties through millennia. Moreover, it was fit for consumption!

Based on this, we conclude that honey, like good wine, the longer it sits, the more useful it becomes. However, for this you need to follow certain rules for storing the product. So, in order for honey to have an almost unlimited shelf life, you need to provide it with certain conditions.

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   Requires glass containers. If you bought natural honey in a plastic container, immediately transfer it to a glass container. Make sure that the honey you want to maximize the shelf life of is covered with an airtight lid.

2. Store honey in a cool place (up to +15 degrees), but not in the refrigerator. There he may soon wander.
3. Direct sunlight destroys the antimicrobial activity of honey and its vitamins.
4. Isolate the product from foreign odors (smoked meats, spices, pickles, etc.).

If you follow these simple rules, your honey is in danger of being eaten over time, but not spoiled in any way. However, keep in mind that only the expiration date of natural honey is relevant to all of the above. Therefore, if you buy a jar with this product in a supermarket, on which it is written that its shelf life is, for example, a year, you can rest assured that it is artificial. Even if the manufacturer says it's natural.

Distinguishing artificial honey from real is difficult. Even more difficult is not to buy a natural product diluted with sugar, starch, and in some cases chalk. If possible, buy honey only from trusted manufacturers, because it is often possible to distinguish a real product from an artificial one only during its storage.

Remember, natural honey must be candied over time. Therefore, if they try to sell it to you in liquid form in January, assuring that it is real -don't believe it's a scam. The exception is honey from chestnut or white acacia. But, firstly, it is much rarer than the others, therefore it costs more, and secondly, it is still subject to crystallization, just a little slower. Non-natural honey, the shelf life of which, as a rule, does not exceed a year, can be used in food as a sweet or the basis of desserts. But to count on the fact that it is something useful for the body is stupid. It is created at best on the basis of sugar, the benefits of which for the human body are very doubtful.