Köycegiz honey, special selection flower honey
Eastern Anatolia welcomes spring with enchanting flowers in a thousand colors and beautiful scents that would make any perfume jealous, on its untouched, high-altitude plateaus.
As soon as our beekeepers leave their hives on the most beautiful plateaus of Eastern Anatolia, the bees get to work.
After mixing the nectar and pollen from various flowers with their enzymes, which cause structural changes, the bees mature the honey in their hives and then, by flapping their wings, blow away the honey's water.
The result is wonderfully flavorful flower honey.
We do not pasteurize our products.
Processed honey undergoes a process where it is heated and then cooled, while also undergoing a filtration process to remove pollen.
This process is normally done to prevent the honey from crystallizing and to achieve a clear, homogeneous color.
However, high temperatures destroy most of the vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and amino acids, causing it to lose its healthy properties.
We preserve the 100 natural quality of Köycegiz special selection flower honey by filtering it from the honeycomb, allowing it to mature, and then packaging it.
Therefore, it is natural for Köycegiz honey, a specially selected flower honey, to crystallize.
It has been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years for its potential antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties.
It is good for coughs, stomach ailments, and digestive system disorders.
Direct application to minor or moderate wounds has been shown to accelerate wound healing.
Honey mixed with a glass of water helps increase the number of red blood cells in the body.
We offer our specially selected flower honey, with its unique color, taste, and scent, and the healing properties of the flowers, to you, the taste lovers, with the quality of Köycegiz honey!
Our certificates of analysis
Köycegiz honey is sampled from honey harvested during the harvest season thanks to the diligence of our bees and the great dedication of our beekeepers.
All our honey is analyzed regularly at accredited universities (Hacettepe University, Mugla University) under the supervision of leading professors specialized in honey.
All of our purity analyses, based on the Turkish Food Codex Honey Communiqué, are available alongside the products.
If we consider these parameters in honey separately:
Proline is an amino acid found predominantly in our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
This amount is the quality criterion for our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
A high or low proline value is an indicator of whether the bees are collecting nectar from nature during the Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey production period.
According to the Turkish Food Codex Honey Communiqué, the required proline level in our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is at least 300 mg kg.
Accordingly, the content in our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is 478.14 mg kg.
The diastase value is the most abundant enzyme in our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
This enzyme is produced by bees secreting it from their stomachs during the ripening of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey and transferring it to Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
The value of this enzyme indicates whether the Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey has been heat treated.
According to the Turkish Food Codex honey circular, the diastase value must be at least "8".
Accordingly, the value in our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is "9.78".
The moisture value indicates the amount of water in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
It plays an important role in determining the maturity and shelf life of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
When Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is placed in the cells by the bees, the humidity level is approximately 0-35 .
Bees reduce this humidity level below 0 by balancing the hive temperature and beating their wings.
A value above 0 indicates that Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey was harvested early by beekeepers.
The maximum humidity value in the Turkish Food Codex Honey Communiqué is 0 .
This value is 0 in our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
Electrical conductivity is measured to determine the mineral and acid content in Köycegiz Special Selection flower honey.
Electrical conductivity may vary depending on the amount of organic acids, minerals, and protein in Köycegiz Special Selection flower honey, and as a result, Köycegiz Special Selection flower honey is distinguished as either secretion or blossom honey.
According to the Turkish Food Codex honey circular, the electrical conductivity of flower honey must be a maximum of 0.8ms cm and a minimum of 0.8ms cm in secretion honey.
The electrical conductivity value of our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is 0.41ms cm.
Free acidity and pH are the main elements determined by the amount of organic acids, minerals, protein, and carbohydrates found in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
This application plays an important role in the fermentation of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey and the determination of its secretion honey.
The acids found in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey not only affect the taste and flavor of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey, but also prevent the growth of microorganisms in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
According to the Turkish Food Codex honey circular, the free acidity value of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey must not exceed 50 meq kg.
The free acidity value of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is 21.76 meq kg.
Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey increases with the effects of parameters such as heat treatment and prolonged storage under adverse conditions.
HMF is formed by the condensation of the carbonyl groups of reducing sugars in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey with the amine groups of amino acids and proteins.
The HMF value is an indicator of the freshness of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
According to the Turkish Food Codex honey circular, the HMF content in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey must not exceed 40 mg kg.
The HMF content in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is "9.29".
C4 and delta C13 values in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey C13 analysis in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is the most common method used to determine cane sugar, corn-based sugar, and glucose-based sugar.
It provides information about whether Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey has been adulterated, based on the isotope ratios of the honey protein and the Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey, considering the different photosynthetic cycles of plants.
Sugar profile analysis in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey: Because Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is a carbohydrate food, its dry matter content is approximately 99 .
95 of this is composed of fructose and glucose.
These two monosaccharides, which give Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey its flavor, are formed by the inversion of sucrose found in the nectar of plants or the secretions of insects living on plants, by the invertase enzyme.
According to the Turkish Food Codex honey circular, the sugar content and ratio in flower honey is at least 60g per 100g, and the fructose glucose ratio is between 0.9 and 1.4.
In Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey, the fructose glucose ratio is 64.66 and 1.29.
There should be no sucrose in honey.
Bees invert the nectar they collect, breaking it down into fructose and glucose until no sucrose remains.
The presence of sucrose in honey is an indication of adulteration.
Our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey does not contain sucrose.
Pollen analysis shows that the honey-bearing plant species that are the source of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey have a large resource in our country.
Turkey has approximately 450,000 different plant species, varying depending on the region.
The Köycegiz region is also an important location for pine honey.
Furthermore, because our local beekeepers are nomadic, they leave their hives all over Turkey when spring arrives.
Now, the bees enjoy this richness of plants and produce honey.
Pollen analyses performed on these milked honeys provide useful information in determining their geographic and floral origins.
Pollen analysis determines the nectar-bearing plants in that region, the naming of our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey, and the quality and yield of our Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey.
Phenolic and antioxidant analysis in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey antioxidants are compounds that prevent cell damage by inhibiting the formation of free radicals in the body.
These reactions can be toxic in foods and cause health problems.
In short, antioxidant activity can reduce oxidative reactions in the body.
Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is known to be rich in enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants.
Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is rich in flavonoids and phenolic acids, as well as antioxidant compounds such as tocopherols, alkaloids, and ascorbic acid.
The color of Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey generally depends on the carotenoids and flavonoids it contains.
Dark-colored honey has a high antioxidant content.
In short, honey is rich in antioxidants and can vary depending on the region and season.
The phenolic compound content in Köycegiz Special Selection Flower Honey is 490.004 mggae kg.
