SWEET FENNEL HONEY

About Sweet Fennel

The scientific name of the fennel plant is Foeniculum vulgare.
This plant is one of the oldest medicinal plants in Iran and is widely used in pharmacy and cosmetics.
This aromatic plant has many medicinal properties and belongs to the Apiaceae family, and is a plant native to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Fennel’s flowering season is August and September and is one of the most valuable plants in the beekeeping industry.
Fennel flowers have a lot of nectar and beekeepers go to this plant for two purposes: first to make bees and second to produce honey.

How to Make Sweet Fennel Honey?

There must be three conditions for harvesting sweet fennel honey:
-The extensive area under plant cultivation
-Flowering plant in the right season
-Sufficient amount of nectar and pollen in flowers
If suitable conditions are provided and the colonies are placed next to fennel fields, bees can produce sweet fennel honey by collecting plant nectar and processing it in the hive.

Features of Sweet Fennel Honey

Sweet fennel honey is single plant honey in amber color and is classified into dark honey.
sweet fennel honey has low moisture and is unique in terms of aroma and taste.
Important features of this honey are high fructose and low glucose.
Sweet fennel honey takes more than a year to crystallize, so it is classified as late crystalline honey.

SCA can supply this unique honey in large volumes and with world-class quality

Sweet Fennel Honey Benefits

• Tonic & Energizing
  • The first property of honey is tonic and energizing due to its richness in various sugars and fast digestion, and the use of honey as a natural and healthy sugar compound is very important in providing carbohydrates to the body cells for metabolism and normal function of all organs.

• Wound & burn treatment
  • The special property of honey is healing wounds and burns and repairing damaged tissues, which has been mentioned in traditional and modern medicine. The use of honey as a wound healer is the oldest human medicinal version of honey. In modern medicine, in recent decades the use of honey in the treatment of wounds and burns and even wound healing has increased due to the healing effect and repair of uncomplicated skin.

• Anti-cold & Cough
  • Treatment of colds, coughs and sore throats is another confirmed effect of honey in many sources and has been recommended by doctors and even in some countries including New Zealand, Australia and the UK use honey in doctors’ prescriptions to treat colds, sore throats, and coughs. Honey is also used directly and indirectly in anti-cough products.

• Honey & diabetes
  • The use of honey in type I and type II diabetes was associated with a significantly lower glycemic index than with glucose or sucrose in normal diabetes. Honey compared with dextrose caused a significantly lower rise in plasma glucose levels in diabetic subjects. It also caused a reduction in blood lipids, homocysteine levels, and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in normal and hyperlipidemic subjects. In earlier observations, it was found that honey stimulates insulin secretion, decreases blood glucose levels, elevates hemoglobin concentration, and improves lipid profile.

• Cardiovascular health
  • Honey contains antioxidants, so its consumption is beneficial for cardiovascular health. Honey helps skin health and is anti-aging.

• Antimicrobial properties
  • The most important property of honey is its antimicrobial properties. While honey is a purely edible substance and should be a good place for germs to grow, germs are killed by exposure to honey and their bodies are eventually destroyed. Because honey contains antibiotics and the enzyme diastase.

• Improve sleep disorders
  • Honey is hypnotic and people with sleep disorders are advised to drink a few tablespoons of honey before going to bed.