Organic Pine Honey ‘Abaton’ 850gr

Organic Pine Honey ‘Abaton’

Pine honey is found in areas where pine forests are plentiful during the honey collection season, and conventional sources, such as flowers or fruit tree blossoms, are few. It is produced mostly in the Middle East, the Balkans, Serbia and on several Greek islands.

The approximately 65% ​​of total honey production in Greece comes from the pines. The pine, indeed, considered the most important bee plant of our country. The main pine honey production areas are the northern Euboea, the Halkidiki, Thassos, Skopelos, Zakynthos and Rhodes.

Taste: Due to the low concentration of sugars, not too sweet.

Aroma: Of particular. Some of them resemble the iodine flavor.

Color: The pine honey is darker than thyme. One thing indeed produced spring is paler and more transparent than that produced in the autumn.

Krystallosi: The pine drool relatively slowly, since the natural content of glucose is low. Specifically, pure pine remain fluid, ie without crystallization, for more than half years.

Nutritional value: The pine is considered highly nutritious honey and this is mainly due to the large number of different substances present in the establishment. Since these substances are dominated by metals and minerals (calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, copper, etc.), Which are found in large concentrations in Greek pine.