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Bee's honey
We all know honey and its great benefits, and we all know that it is a complete food, and it cures people. But there is another type of honey that is not produced by bees, but it carries a wide range of benefits that many of us are ignorant of. It is black honey, what is the source of black honey? How is it produced? What are its benefits?
In this context, we will address the source of honey from two sides, the first is the plant from which black honey is extracted, and it is the source of extraction, and the second side is the places that produce black honey and it is the source of production.
The source of the extraction
Black honey is extracted from the sugarcane plant, where it is produced from raw sugar cane by concentrating its juice in stages, refining it, filtering it, and storing it until it gets its final form.
The source of production
The regions responsible for the manufacture of black honey are the region rich in sugarcane, such as Egypt, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, the United States, and India, and the first to produce black honey is the Caribbean region because of the abundance of sugar cane in it.
How is black honey produced
Methods for producing black honey developed gradually among farmers, as sugar cane began to be made by collecting sticks and husks and exposing them to sunlight after placing them in pots made of clay, then this method developed into extracting cane juice and boiling it in those pots without the sticks and crusts, and then they moved To the automatic production process by introducing some types of machines suitable for this, and the stages that sugar cane goes through until it becomes honey are as follows:
- The drying stage of the reeds is pneumatic.
- Dried chopsticks are washed.
- It is at this stage that the juice is extracted.
- Filter and filter the extracted juice.
- Concentrate the juice, and add citric acid to it.
- Filtration of the resulting substance from the concentration.
- Lowering the temperature which is called air cooling.
- Sorting, packing, and labeling honey.
Benefits of black honey
Black honey contains a wide range of minerals beneficial to human health, such as calcium, magnesium, cobalt and others, and it also contains a group of vitamins as well, which makes it an effective food source in the treatment of a wide range of diseases, especially diabetes and cancer, and it is also very important. For children and pregnant women, because of its benefit in providing the body with energy and carbohydrates, as well as it helps relieve headaches, treat obesity, and it is useful in treating heart disorders, menstrual problems, and many other diseases. It is used as a healthy alternative to regular sugar, so black honey is considered a black gem, full of beneficial nutrients, and it is easy to obtain this gem, as it is considered an affordable food for the poor class in Egypt and elsewhere.
