Honey

Every product of natural origin requires specific environmental conditions for its elaboration.

Because of its special geography and its climatic diversity, Argentina holds a privileged positioning that allows it to produce a high quality honey of many varieties originated from different floral sources across the country.

Taking advantage of these natural resources and through a careful selection, OUR SUPPLIER offers consumers its honey, obtained from blooming flowers of natural prairies located in The Pampas of Argentina.

Honey is harvested and bottled under strict quality controls, preserving its properties so that you can enjoy a pure and natural honey!

PFUND COLOUR SCALE

• White-water, from 1 to 8 mm
• Extra white, from 8 to 16.5 mm
• White, from 16.5 to 34 mm
• Extra light Amber, from 34 to 50 mm
• Light Amber, from 50 to 85 mm
• Amber, from 85 to 114 mm
• Dark Amber, from 114 mm onwards

The quality of our honey is in accordance to the European Union regulations and the regulations of the most demanding international markets: it is pure, unadulterated and not fermented, HMF max. 10 mg/kg, moisture max. 19,00 %,  free from additives, contaminants and residues / antibiotics, such as Phenol, Sulphonamides, Streptomycin, Tetracycline, Nitrofuranes and Chloramphenicol.

Pallets (1,00 x 1,20m). 

Bulk Honey

The honey is commercialized in drums of approximately 330 kgs. Each drum has a number of inscriptions which enables the customer to determine where this honey has been harvested and processed, being then possible to grant a greater security to the final consumer of the product.

Honey is a substance mainly formed by sugars (fructose and glucose), but it’s also a wonderful source of minerals and vitamins.

Properties of Honey

Honey has both therapeutic and nutritional properties. The most significant ones are listed below:

• It's easy to assimilate because it has short-chain carbohydrates.
• It helps digesting and assimilating other food. In children, it improves calcium and magnesium assimilation.
• It improves performance, specially in athletes.
• It stimulates sexual energy.
• It has greater sweetening power than sugar.
• It is used to treat pharyngitis, laryngitis, rhinitis, flu, minor depression, ulcer, gastritis, burns, and other conditions.
• It is used for treating people with asthenia or tiredness, and in alcohol detoxification.
• It stimulates the formation of red corpuscles due to its folic acid content
• It improves food preservation.
• It has mild laxative effects (it regularizes intestinal function).
• It stimulates antibody formation due to its ascorbic acid, magnesium, copper, and zinc.
• It has sedative effects (it favors tryptophan absorption which is a serotonin precursor).
• It's antihemorrhagic, antianemic, antiseptic, antitoxic, emollient, and antipyretic.

Properties and Application of Honey in Food Industry

Humidification
Honey helps humidifying food, particularly pastry products, giving them a wet and brilliant aspect.

Au gratin
When cooking meat, particularly poultry, the use of honey delivers a great au gratin effect, giving the dish an excellent presentation and flavor.

Flavoring
The gluconic acid present in honey enhances the flavor of all kinds of products. In diets it has a significant importance, precisely when sodium must be replaced.

Antioxidant
It has an important antioxidant effect, allowing the preservation of different kinds of food. It’s very useful for dried and fresh fruits, and it can prevent fruit salad from getting a darker color due to oxidation.