About Organic Forest Raw Honey
The term raw honey or live honey is used to describe honey that is cold-extracted and unheated, preserving its natural state.
Colonia Organic Raw Honey is pure, natural, and unprocessed by heat, thus retaining its live enzymes and vitamins, which provide outstanding nutritional qualities and health benefits.
Forest honey, is collected from forested areas, which may include both coniferous trees (fir, spruce, pine, etc.) and deciduous trees (maple, oak, etc.).
Unlike flower honey, forest honey does not come from nectar but from honeydew - the sweet secretion produced by aphids. These small insects feed on the sap of trees and excrete a sugary substance (honeydew), which bees later collect.
Compared to other types of honey, forest honey is richer in minerals such as manganese, phosphorus, zinc, cobalt, and sulfur. It also contains higher levels of calcium, magnesium, iron, and potassium, along with polyphenols, antioxidants, and prebiotics (which serve as food for beneficial gut bacteria, promoting healthy digestion).
Honeydew honey has less glucose than flower honey and contains a higher proportion of
complex sugars.
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