Green honey with propolis

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

Bee products are tasty and he althy, but only if they are natural. Buying any honey on the market, we risk, but there is no other way out: only the “wrong” one (as Winnie the Pooh said) comes to the stores. No, of course, it is bee, but heated during sterilization and saturated with all sorts of preservatives - which means it is not very useful. And sometimes on the market, along with jars of the usual golden yellow, you can also find a beekeeping product of an unusual, unnatural greenish color. Green honey even causes distrust on the part of buyers and leads them into confusion. What is it? Let's figure it out.

Green honey with propolis

Or maybe this is a low-quality product, some kind of fake or marriage? And if not, why is honey green? It's simple: propolis (also a product of beekeeping) is added to a natural flower product, which gives such a shade to the mixture. Humanity has known about the benefits of these two ingredients since time immemorial. Even in ancient Egypt, they noticed: when honey and propolis are combined, their characteristics appear moreeffective, as they are optimally complemented by each other.

Mix in the right proportion

When combined, a greenish tint consistency is obtained with an authentic smell, aroma, taste of bittersweet - yellow-green honey. You can actually cook this product yourself (we’ll tell you how to do it a little later), or you can buy it on the market. Just take it from trusted sellers, and if possible, check it yourself, since it is green honey that is often faked. Checking instructions are given below.

How not to buy a fake?

• Real honey doesn't drip, it flows in a trickle and folds up. Moreover, the last drop, as it were, springs, pulling itself up to the source. On a spoon, green honey should be wrapped in thick layers (there are even special spoons for such a test). The interruption of the stream, and even more so its splashing, speaks at least about the immaturity of honey. But more often - about its dilution.
• Another test of consistency is rubbing a drop of honey with green propolis between your fingers. It should be gentle, without lumps, easily rubbed and quickly absorbed into the skin.
• Another challenge is flipping a can. Natural green honey produces only one large air bubble, fakes release many small ones.
• Be sure to sniff the eyed jar. Natural honey has a pronounced, but delicate floral aroma, fragrant and without extraneous notes. If there is no smell, you are dealing with a sugar product. If it smells like caramelthen honey with propolis was definitely heated to unacceptable temperatures (it is known that the beekeeping product begins to lose its qualities already at +45 degrees Celsius), which means that it has already lost its value.

Checking for water content

"On the water" is convenient to check with a blotter. Unfortunately, she has long sunk into oblivion, so you have to take toilet paper or a paper napkin - they also have excellent absorbent qualities. We drip honey on the surface and observe the consequences. If it is natural, then it will lie like a tubercle - the surface is too rough for spreading. If the beekeeper or seller has sacrilegiously added water, the drop will begin to soak into the paper.

Why is honey green?

By the way, the product has almost nothing to do with another greenish honey - the so-called honeydew.

The honeydew product collected by bees from coniferous trees (based on honeydew of animal origin or honeydew) is famous for its quality, being considered, for example, in Europe one of the best varieties. Due to the content of enzymes and minerals, phytoncides and organic acids, honeydew honey has unique properties. In our case, ordinary flower natural honey of light varieties is taken, and propolis is introduced into it. We get a greenish product.

DIY cooking recipe

We only need honey and propolisin a ratio of 20 to 1. That is, for example, for 200 grams of honey, you need to take 10 grams of propolis. We grind the propolis on a grater, melt it in a bowl of hot water (do not heat it over 45 degrees, otherwise the product will turn into a useless sweetness). Separately, in the same way, melt the honey and pour it into a bowl with propolis (it is not recommended to do the opposite). Stir the resulting mixture until smooth. Pour into jars, close with lids and let cool, and then put away for long-term storage. As a result of these simple movements, we get green honey, which has antimicrobial and tonic properties.

How to take?

For additional treatment, honey with propolis is used for heavily healing wounds or ulcers, frostbite and burns, eye diseases - externally. It is diluted with warm purified water (1: 3), and the finished solution is instilled into the wound with a pipette. And with inflammation of the maxillary sinuses, the nasopharynx is washed with a solution in a ratio of 1 to 3 with water. Apply with cracks in the rectum, with hemorrhoids. Green honey has become widespread when consumed internally. In principle, you should always remember that this drug is medicinal, and there is a lot and often it is not recommended (no more than 1 teaspoon three times a day on an empty stomach). The bee product is indicated for use in diseases of the oral mucosa, ulcerative stomatitis and acute inflammation of the oral cavity, inflammation of the gums, teeth (in the amount of half a small spoon, dissolving under the tongue until dissolved), with caries.

Green honey is quite successfully used in the treatmenttonsillitis, various kinds of tonsillitis, influenza, SARS. And also for chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma and tuberculosis (as an addition to the main mandatory procedures), for pneumonia, migraine, hypertension, stomach or intestinal ulcers, chronic inflammation of the urinary tract. This beekeeping product is good in combination with garlic and hot pepper, which further enhance the effect of the substances contained in the components. By the way, and just for preventive purposes, you can eat - a spoonful before meals.