Blossom honey is a polyfloral honey and a beekeeping product. The collection of honey by bees begins in May and lasts until September. This essential feature is nectar and pollen from dozens of flowers. Depends on the nectars collected by the properties of blossom honey.

Where Does Blossom Honey Grow?

If we look at where blossom honeys are produced, we can talk about a wider region. Blossom honey is the most produced type of honey in our country and in the world. There are hundreds or even thousands of different vegetation and geographies around the world. For this reason, blossom honey has many different varieties. The quality of blossom honey produced in Anatolia is always higher. These plants are called endemic and relict plants. Especially in the mountains and high-altitude springs, very valuable plants that do not grow anywhere else in the world are grown. These valuable plants determine the quality of blossom honey and make the blossom honey produced in Anatolia very valuable.

What Are the Factors Determining Quality in Blossom Honeys?

1. Flora

In order to ensure pollen diversity, bees must be able to reach many different flowers. Especially the bees, which are far from agricultural activities, where there are no cultivated plants such as sunflower, and feed on natural mountain and wild flowers; They produce much richer and higher quality honey in terms of pollen diversity and nutrition.

2. Location of the Hive

The most important factor determining the quality of honey is the vegetation and climate of the region where the honey is produced. Whatever flower or plant the bees can reach, they reflect the characteristics of that vegetation onto blossom honey. For this reason, the selection of the apiary, the place where the hives are placed, is very important. In order to produce a quality blossom honey, high altitude plateaus rich in endemic and relict plants should be preferred. Bees that stay in high altitude plateaus; they reach an unpolluted nature with clean water, quality vegetation and industrial activities. Thus, they produce extremely high quality, natural and organic blossom honey.

3. Type of Bees

The most productive bee breeds are Caucasian and Carniolan bees. These bee breeds; It is distinguished from others by its features such as industriousness, resistance to diseases, and docility. In addition, thanks to their features such as larger and more durable wings and longer proboscis, they can fly to places where other bees cannot fly, and they can get honey and pollen even from plants that they cannot get honey from. In addition, these species, which are more resistant to diseases, need less drug supplements such as antibiotics to be given from the outside. Thus, they can produce much higher quality and natural honey.

4. Additive

Consumers should make sure that there are no additives in blossom honey, that processes such as pasteurization are not carried out, and that it is jarred in raw form as it comes out of the hive.

5. Mastery in Production

In the production of quality honey, we should not forget the labor and mastery of the bees first and then the beekeeper. Even in the honey that our beekeepers produce with very good intentions, additives, added sugar, and chemical residues may appear due to lack of knowledge. In this case, it directly affects the quality and naturalness of honey and harms consumers.