General Knowledge about genuine Honey

The honey bee collects nectar in natural sucrose from and pollen from different different flora in nature as the food. This food id stored in hexagonal spaces in their hive. At the same time digestive enzymes of bees are mixed in nectar by digestive reaction, nectar is converted into body sugars like glucose fructose, laevulose and dextrose. This digested substance by bees is called honey. Due to different structural formula, scientifically nectar and honey are designed separately.

Honey production is done by bee - hunting procedure of dorseta or rock bees and migrative bee keeping procedure of apis indica and Italian melifera bees.

According to different source floras Satmaha's Honey is available in Unifloral forms like Mustards, Eucalyptus, Sunflower, jambhul, hirdagela etc. And in Natural Multifloral form in which two to three types of honey are mixed together and packed. Honey collection activity is dependent on nature's various factors like flora and its output, changes in weather conditions, attack of bee diseases and predators etc. Hence every year production cost of Unifloral honey differs. The cost of honey also depends upon total production in quantity and export orders of it every year.
According to different source floras Satmaha's Unifloral Honey has different colors, tastes and aromas. So honey tastes 'Delicious, not just sweet'.

Satmaha's honey is the "Golden gift of Nature" containing carbohydrates, proteins, Amino acids, minerals, Enzymes, Vitamins etc. As the nutrient food for health; Strength and Vigour of human being. It also contains substances acting as antiseptic and helping to generate Antibodies against diseases.

Unifloral Honey has various medicinal properties according to source flora. Hence it is useful in various medical treatments as Supplementary nutrient food. Which enhances effects of medicine for e.g. Mustard is useful for heart patients, while eucalyptus for cough and cold. Jambhul for diabetic patients and Hirda-Gela for joint paints etc.

Naturally honey is the concentrate of digested sugar by bees, it has a tendency to crystallize like coconut oil and pure ghee. Honey collected in rainy or winder season has a tendency of partial or complete crystallization. Out of the total production of honey in India 8-% of it has tendency of crystallization, as this honey is collected at low temperature and in pollution free atmosphere it is superior then any other honey in quality parameters of European countries. So 90% of total honey collected in India is exported to European countries these honey are of mustard, eucalyptus, sunflower etc.

Most of the Indian consumers misunderstand that crystallization of honey indicated adulteration. Taking advantage of this fact 70% of honey sold in India is artificial which do not crystallize. Some replaces pack sugar syrup under Ayurvedic license of "Madhu" and the retailers sale it as honey, as they have exorbitant margin in it. Some reputed companies pack glory of honey which is artificially manufactured by biotechnological process on sugar syrup. Bacteria added in sugar syrup create enzymes and invert sugars from it. This is called glory of honey. This glory is imported from china and packed.
To detect the quality of money laboratory under "AGMARK" moisture percentage, specific gravity, sucrose percentage, fructose-glucose ratio, Ash, acidity, fiesh's test and aniline-chloride test are performed. The artificial glory of honey also passes in these tests. For exact detection of genuine honey to export, enzyme contents, HMF/kg, antibiotics like sulphonamides glycerol, yeast and radiology based Isotype-C13, TASCIRA test are performed. In these tests the artificial glory fails to pass.
As pure ghee of cow, buffalo and dalda ghee can be identified by its specific aroma generally, like it is possible to detect genuine honey available in market, by sublingual taste.

To master the trick of identification of genuine honey the things are given below are to be kept in mind.
Honey is digested natural sugar by bees.
It has different aromas according to different source flora.
Honey is delicious in taste, not just sweet.
Crystallisation is the Natural tendency of genuine honey.
 

Science based trick on identification of genuine honey.
When we consume a spoonful of genuine honey; its sweetness disappears within 15 seconds from the tongue. It also has different color, taste and aroma according to respective source flora. While if the honey is artificial or adulterated the sweetness of it remains upto 15 minutes on our tongue and it has taste of limlet toffee or sugar syrup or like murabbas or like medicinal syrups.
 

Various uses of honey as nutrient food are as follows:
1. As Satmaha's Honey contains micro-nutrients and vitamins it is to be consumed daily with bread or chapatti spreading like jam, keep the honey in refrigerator to crystallize and enjoy it.
2. Consume daily the sharbat of 15 gm. Satmaha's honey + lime juice + a glass of lukewarm water at early morning and at night before sleeping for heath, strength and Vigour to life. If anyone has a problem of acidity, avoid lemon juice.
3. In the period of dieting for body weight loss, consume the lemon sharbat of satmaha's honey 4 to 5 times in a day as it supplies calories without fats to do the daily work.
4. To have a quick recovery from sickness, fruit salad with Satmaha's Honey should be consumed by the patients daily.
5. With meal, the "Panchamrutam" of pure ghee, milk, sugar, curd and satmaha's honey adding ilichi & leaves of tulsi for taste should be consumed daily to increase resistance power of our body against various diseases.
6. To liquefy the crystallized honey, keep the container in warm water or sunlight. We suggest to consume honey as it is, without liquefying it; because the heat treatment causes loss of nutrients from honey.

Specialty of Satmaha honey
(SATpuda + MAHAbaleshwar = SATMAHA)
Satmaha Cottage Industries implement the honey collection activity in rural regions of Maharashtra and nearby states with the help of members of national bee board.
We collect honey from Apis indica, Italian melifera and Dorseta bees.
We provide training of bee keeping and honey collection activity for farmers and rural unemployed youths.
As the bee keeping is done by migration of bees in various agricultural and forest floral belts, it helps to increase average crop production due to cross pollination by beers.
Satmaha Naturorich Products is a honey processing unit under KVIC's Gramodyog Rojgar Yojana.
We have the scientifically proven "centrifuge vacuum" honey processing unit by which we can process the raw honey in the terms of Micro-filtration, moisture-reduction and pasteurization at 55c within 35 minutes by keeping safe contents like enzymes and nutrients in honey.
Satmaha is the only on unit in Maharashtra which supplies an "Export Quality Unifloral and Multifloral Honey" to consumers.
Skilled work, accurate decisions, fast action and affinity towards nature are the base of Satmaha unit, while alert consumers are support of it.
Our slogan is "Quality is never an accident, it is always a product of intelligent work and honesty. We must have the will to produce good things".
Demand for Satmaha's Honey only. If our product is not available in the nearby market please contact us on our consumer service phone no.

You are always welcome to visit our processing plant at Alandi Devachi, Pune.