Brown honey owes its significant nutritional value and strong taste to its high content of pollen grains.
Its color can be from brown to black with reddish hues. It has a strong and woody aroma just like the chestnut itself. Its taste is intense, less sweet than we are used to and slightly bitter.
Nutritional value
In a comparative research carried out on Greek honeys, it was found that the content of brown honey in the minerals Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Magnesium, Manganese, Zinc, Iron and Copper is twice that of thyme honey and cotton honey. Finally, it has a high content of carbohydrates and mainly fructose.
Benefits for the organization
- Krelieves symptoms of dysentery, seasonal flu and sore throat.
- Piexhibits great antimicrobial and antibacterial activity against in microorganismsouch such as enterococcus, staphylococcus and Helicobacter pylori.
- Bcontributes to the good functioning of the circulatory and immune system.
- It has a strong antioxidant effect. Saccording to a recent study by the University of Athens, chestnut honey is one of the honeys with the greatest antioxidant activity.
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