{"id":14479,"date":"2021-11-16T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T10:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maeshoney.com\/?p=14479"},"modified":"2021-11-22T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T09:27:17","slug":"properties-and-characteristics-of-forest-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maeshoney.com\/en\/properties-and-characteristics-of-forest-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"Properties and characteristics of forest honey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Holm oaks, pines, chestnut trees, beeches, oaks and cork oaks abound in Spain. These form deep forests where bees collect molasses from tree leaves. For this reason, it is sometimes not considered honey, but honeydew or honeydew. But it also has many benefits, today we tell you the properties and characteristics of forest honey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Differences between honey and honeydew<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before we must make a clarification about what is honeydew, honeydew and how it differs from forest honey. If we stick to the definition of current Spanish legislation (Royal Decree 1049\/2003, of August 1), honeydew honey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is the honey that comes for the most part from excretions of plant sucking insects (Hemiptera) present in the living parts of plants or from secretions of the living parts of plants.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Also, no mention is made of honeydew, but for some people honeydew is these same secretions but from insects such as aphids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be considered honey, it must “come from the nectar of plants.” If we stick to this definition, it is not honey, however, many consider it that way since it is made by bees as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Properties and characteristics of forest honey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The place and the plants where the bees suck the nectar greatly influences the way in which honey is made, as well as its flavor and properties. Some of them are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n