Where is the best honey?

Qinghai, China’s honey has the best quality. Because there is no environmental pollution in these places.

Honey may be contaminated by Clostridium botulinum during the brewing, transportation and storage processes. [More than 80% of honey is molasses. Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar. It will crystallize at low temperatures. What will crystallize is glucose, and the part that does not crystallize is mainly fructose.

We know that when bees make honey, the source of the "processing raw materials" they collect is mainly nectar from the nectar source. However, when the nectar source is scarce, bees will also collect nectar or honeydew. Therefore, we call honey Divided into natural honey and manna honey.

Natural honey is brewed by bees collecting nectar. They come from the intrafloral nectaries or external nectaries of plants. Usually what we call honey is natural honey. Because it comes from different nectar plants, it is divided into various single-floral honeys based on the flowering period of a certain plant, such as orange Flower nectar, linden honey, lychee honey, acacia honey, milkvetch honey, rapeseed honey, date honey, wild osmanthus honey, longan honey, wild chrysanthemum honey, wolf tooth honey, etc.

Although bees only collect nectar from one type of plant at a certain period, most honey often contains pollen or nectar from several types of plants. For example, at the end of the southern lychee flower period, there are longan flowers. At the end of the rape flowering period, milkvetch will bloom next, so longan honey must contain lychee honey, and at the beginning of milkvetch honey flow, there must be a small amount of rapeseed honey.

Generally, honey is named after the flower name of one or several main sources. Generally speaking, the proportion of pollen from a certain single flower nectar plant is absolutely dominant. For example, in linden tree honey from the Northeast, linden tree pollen should be absolutely dominant, and the honey color is white and moist. However, there is also honey obtained from many plants blooming at the same time. Because it contains two or more types of pollen mixed together, it is generally called mixed flower honey, or "hundred-flower" honey.

Before people didn’t know much about nectar plants, honey was only divided into spring honey, summer honey, autumn honey and winter honey based on the production season.