This honey bees are harvested from flowering plants that grow in mountainous areas. Honey, collected from mountain flowers, is often light and has a pleasant subtle smell - Alpine, Altaic and Carpathian herbs give refined notes to the fragrance of the product. Among the special properties of mountain honey, one can note its ability to crystallize rapidly, but do not take it as a drawback, since this feature does not completely reduce the useful properties of this product.
What is useful for mountain honey?
High-mountain honey is a rarity in the market, so its price is high, but it is justified not only by its taste qualities, but also by its useful properties. Beekeepers manage to collect some high-mountain honey, because caring bees keep it for their offspring.
The purest air in the mountains beneficially affects the beneficial components of the product, so their quantity exceeds the amount in other varieties of honey.
Honey has a lot of useful properties, among which there is a positive effect on the mucous membrane of the organs. Due to this property, medical professionals advise taking the product as an additional remedy for treatment of the following ailments:
- cough;
- sore throat ;
- inflammation in the throat;
- catarrh of stomach (gastritis).
Honey collected from mountain plants, among other things, has the same properties as other types of honey:
- antimicrobial;
- antiseptic;
- tonic.
On top of that, it removes toxins from the body and contains a lot of carotene and vitamin A.
Specialists of traditional medicine strongly recommend taking mountain honey in its pure form or as part of funds for the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and stomach.
Also, the product of mountain beekeeping is useful in anemia , especially if it is accompanied by symptoms such as weakness and dizziness.
Even pharmacists recognize the pharmacological properties of honey, explaining it with the content of such substances as:
- potassium;
- magnesium;
- calcium;
- iron;
- glucose;
- enzymes;
- fructose;
- phytoncides.
What honey is better to buy?
Knowing the value of mountain honey, many sellers give him floral and fruity honey or deceive the buyer in other ways, so before you buy the product of mountain beekeeping, you should know something about it:
- Honey has a fruity aroma with pronounced floral notes.
- The most common is Altaic and Carpathian honey.
It is important that some varieties of mountain honey are painted white after crystallization. This is not an indicator of poor product quality.