The more authentic brands of honey include: Langnese Black Forest Honey, Comvita Manuka Honey, Lune de miel Honeymoon Orange Flower Honey, etc.
1. Langnese Black Forest Honey: rich aroma, with a Baume value of over 43 degrees. Langnese is the most popular honey brand in Germany and even Europe, and is one of the most advanced high-end honey manufacturing companies in Europe. .
The scale of the company is comparable to that of Mercedes-Benz and BMW. It has multiple apiaries around the world and its honey products are sold to more than 60 countries and regions. Langnis has a rich product line, and this Black Forest honey is an advanced product for honey lovers.
2. Comvita Manuka Honey UMF5+ - mellow and silky in the mouth, with a long aftertaste: New Zealand honey giant Comvita was founded in 1974 and is the leading brand of Manuka honey. New Zealand has a clean and pollution-free natural environment and is the only country in the world that has legislation prohibiting beekeepers from using antibiotics to feed bees.
Manuka honey is golden in color, with the unique aroma of Manuka flowers. The texture is very thick and looks like gelatin. It is mellow and fragrant in the mouth, smooth and soft, with moderate sweetness and a long aftertaste.
3. Lune de miel orange blossom honey - sweet and sour, very soothing to the throat. The well-known French honey manufacturer Famille Michaud Apiculteurs Group includes MIEL'IApiculteur, Terre de Miels, SunnyBio and other brands.
Among them, honeymoon has the longest history and is the most famous. Honeymoon has been favored by French consumers for nearly a century, with a market share of 65%.
What you need to pay attention to when choosing honey is:
1. Origin: Generally speaking, high-quality honey sources are mostly mountainous and plateau, have little human activity, and are far away from factory farmland. In addition, stable and suitable precipitation, light and temperature are not only beneficial to the growth of nectar plants, but also more beneficial to the growth and activities of bees.
2. Safety: mainly refers to the safety of bees and the purity of honey. In principle, high-quality honey should be pure and natural with no additives, but it also requires a series of procedures such as screening, filtering, testing, and bottling of the honey after the honey is harvested. The products of high-quality honey brands have a high degree of standardization, stable quality, strict quality control, transparent information, and clear after-sales rights protection channels.
3. Taste: The taste of high-quality honey is thick and sticky, sweet but not greasy. Low-quality honey often has a bitter, astringent, sour or smelly taste. There is a substance called hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in natural honey. The lower the HMF, the fresher the honey.
The lower the moisture content of honey, the better, and the higher the Baume degree, the better. The Baume degree is the concentration of honey at 20°C. The first-level Baume degree is above 42 degrees, and the second-level Baume degree is above 42 degrees. Above 41 degrees, the third-level Baume degree is 40 degrees, and the fourth-level Baume degree is 39 degrees.