Chestnut honey is a natural product made by bees from chestnut nectar and myelates. Although mainly from the nectar of chestnut flowers. One of the little-known honeys, but one that you’ll fall in love with once you try it!
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Summary: Chestnut honey is a dark honey with an intermediate aroma and a spectacular taste. This honey is very rich in minerals that provide great benefits. All our honeys come from Spanish beekeepers committed to quality and the environment. It is also available in our shop in Las Rozas de Madrid.
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1. Our raw Chestnut Honey
Firstly, we show you the most important characteristics of honey of chestnut:
a) Colour
The honey of chestnut has an amber colour, with darker tones if it contains myelates or reddish tones if it contains heathers.
b) Aroma
Also, in tasting we can appreciate its powerful aroma and smell characteristic of dry wood, somewhat less persistent and intense than that of eucalyptus honey. When tasting it, its sweet taste is appreciated, with salty notes. You can also find in it some bitter notes, if it had some heather or acid notes for carrying some brambles.
c) Crystallization
This honey has little tendency to crsitalization, except when it has some fabaceae. These accelerate its crystallization.
d) Chestnut tree
The chestnut tree is a large tree that can reach up to 25 meters high, typical of temperate areas of the northern hemisphere. In Spain they are found mainly everywhere, and grows preferably in shady and humid areas of the north and west of the Peninsula.
e) Flowering and harvesting
Chestnut honey is harvested in summer, and is homogeneous over time although it is negatively affected by high heat and is favoured by morning dew.
Video 1: Chestnut flowers
f) Pollen
Also, this honey has mostly Castanea sativa, but we can also find some heather, fabáceas and cistáceas. Although cistáceas tend to be less frequent.
g) Useful life
Furthermote, such honey may lose some property after two years.
h) Destination population
In addition, honey is suitable for everyone. However, we recommend medical supervision for children under 2 years of age.
2. Benefits and properties
Chestnut honey is highly valued for the benefits it brings to our health. Like all honey, has a high concentration of sugars. It also contains enzymes and components from chestnut. These have very positive effects, as we will document below.
The effects that we are going to comment on come from researchers and from popular wisdom. The medicines are the only products that are patented and as such, they certify properties protected by the pharmaceutical industry.
Therefore, and indicating the references of research articles, we have found the following:
- According to an article published in 2017 by MG Miguel, MD Antunes and ML Faleiro, components of chestnut honey have a high bactericidal capacity. Therefore, these together with its composition low in water, make it very beneficial to act against infections such as colds and sore throats. It is also very suitable for wound healing.
- Also, this honey is rich in minerals, making it a very healthy food supplement.
Contraindications
Chestnut honey has no contraindication unless abused. Since honey is very hot, consuming large quantities will make us gain weight.
3. Recommendations
This honey is recommended for those who do not want a very sweet honey with very powerful flavors.
The great cooks usually use it to pair with Iberian meat, traditional stews and sweet and sour sauces.
4. Indications for Chestnut Honey
This honey takes several months to crystallize and usually does so with a coarse grain size.
5. Origin
The honey of Chestnut is obtained from several beekeepers in Spain, which are as follows:
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| Antonio Simón |
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| Rancho Cortesano |
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Table 1: Our beekeepers.
The multifloral honey from Zamora, although it is not mono-floral, will come from a considerable part of the Chestnut myelates. Also, there are other places in Spain that we will soon bring to our store.
Raw honey of chestnut from Galicia: Galicia would be where the largest amount of Chestnut honey is produced. However, it is also produced in other parts of Spain.
6. History
This tree was introduced by the Romans, and in many areas it became feral. This tree comes from Asia Minor. It was first brought to Greece and later to Italy, France and Spain.
Discorides also deals with the chestnut tree in chapter 122 of book I. The name chestnut comes from the Greek “kastanaikon karyon” which derives from Kastana, a city in Pontus where the tree was first cultivated in ancient times.
a) Curiosities
In the south of Spain, in the mountains of San Pedro de Alcántara, we have a famous chestnut tree called “castaño santo”, which is the grandfather of this forest. The locals say that this chestnut tree is between 800 and 1000 years old. What is clear is that its trunk measures 14 metres in diameter.
7. Frequently asked questions
In addition, these are frequently asked questions:
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Is this honey very strong?
For a dark honey, it does not have such a strong flavour as heather and forest honey. It has an intermediate taste.
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Is chestnut honey similar to heather honey?
Chestnut honey has a milder taste than heather honey. It is common, however, that chestnut honey always has some heather in it.
Source:
Heart Foundation https://fundaciondelcorazon.com/
