The most authentic wild osmanthus honey is actually hidden in this place in Hubei!

Many friends may think that osmanthus honey is the honey collected by our common osmanthus trees when they bloom in August. I'm here to tell you solemnly that the sweet-scented osmanthus we usually see has no nectaries, and only blooms without producing honey. Only the flowers of the wild osmanthus trees in the deep mountains and old forests can collect nectar. Because its taste is similar to that of osmanthus, it is named wild osmanthus honey.

Let's follow me to see where the authentic wild osmanthus honey comes from.

Wild osmanthus honey, one of the specialties of Chongyang, is also called osmanthus honey. In ancient times, it was called stone honey, rock honey and winter honey because bees built nests between caves and rocks. Because the flowers picked by local bees meet camellia, they are also called camellia honey. 1964, scientifically identified by the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry of Hubei Provincial Party Committee, in fact, the honey-picked flower is one of the Suzuki flowers of Theaceae. The beauty and fragrance of Suzuki's branches, leaves and flowers are similar to osmanthus fragrans, which only blooms without producing honey, so it was renamed wild osmanthus nectar.

? Chongyang wild osmanthus honey refers to the authentic wild honey produced in Jintang Town, Chongyang County, Hubei Province, which is located in the middle of the shogunate mountains, and the high-quality wild osmanthus honey collected by Chinese bees. Its honey juice is white or light amber at first, and milky white after crystallization, with delicate and sweet taste and unique fragrance and flavor.

? According to the Records of Chongyang County, farmers in Chongyang began to raise Chinese bees more than 1500 years ago, and the bee barrels were hung horizontally under the sunny eaves. They were self-propagated and brewed, and they were well-known at home and abroad and exported to Japan and Europe and the United States. There are more than 20 varieties of wild osmanthus honey sources, which are unique to Chongyang, and mainly grow on the mountains with an altitude of 400- 1000 m in the towns and villages in the southwest of Chongyang. As early as 1985, Chongyang wild osmanthus honey was rated as a first-class famous product by the Ministry of Commerce. Won the gold medal at 1999 international agricultural Expo.

The nectar of wild osmanthus fragrans needs to be collected in severe winter. It is produced in Bai Yunbian, Qingshan, and comes from autumn and winter. The collection and brewing conditions are extremely harsh. From late autumn to late winter, bees in China can pick flowers and brew honey in remote mountainous areas at an altitude of 1000 meters, in sunny frosty weather and temperatures below zero degrees Celsius.

? Chongyang specialty wild osmanthus honey, with high nutritional value, strict geographical requirements, is extremely rare, without pesticide and pest pollution. It is rich in iron, calcium, protein, vitamins and riboflavin. It has auxiliary effects on chronic hepatitis, hypertension, tuberculosis, heart disease and arteriosclerosis.

? "Chongyang wild osmanthus honey" was approved as a geographical indication trademark by the State Trademark Office.

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