How to store medical

Natural honey is a wonderful, unique product in which a magnificent taste is combined with healing properties. Who at least once tried fresh honey, will forever remember his fragrance. If you store this product correctly, then all valuable in it is preserved for a long time, and its healing properties will only increase in a year, although the smell will not be the same. In this article we will try to familiarize you with the basic rules of honey storage.

No dishes are suitable for honey storage. Galvanized iron, copper, ferrous metal dishes, cast iron kills all the beneficial properties of this valuable product. In addition, it reaches the metal and becomes not just not useful, but even dangerous to health. The most suitable are the containers:

ceramic;
glass;
wooden.

The room selected for storage of honey must meet several requirements:

Humidity in the range of 60-80%.
Temperature from 0 to +15 degrees. Without prejudice to its properties, honey and temperature -20 tolerate, but for no time.
Lack of chemicals and products with a strong smell, because Honey all absorbs.
Lack of bright sunlight. If the packaging is glass, then all usefulness in the light will be destroyed for several days.

Some gourmets prefer to eat honey exclusively in honeycombs. Indeed, such a product has a taste of several other, and more enzymes in it. In such a form, honey retains its healing force to decades. When stored, it is important to observe the main condition - not to disturb the integrity of the cell. So if you bought honey in honeycombs, then wrap them tightly into the food film and put it in the refrigerator or take into a room that meets the levels of humidity, illumination and with the appropriate temperature. If some parameter is not observed, then the tightness of the cells may be disturbed and honey will begin to cry.

If suddenly you got a gift from a familiar beekeeper in the form of a whole frame with honey, then of course the questions will arise: "What to do with it? How to store it? ". If there are no answers, you do not appreciate how much a useful gift you got. In fact, it is worth performing a few simple operations, and you become the owner of an invaluable natural gift:

place the frame on the big tray;
take the knife and cut care of the contents of the frame;
divide honeycombs on portions;
fold the pieces in the dishes and close the lid;
send to refrigerator or suitable room.

You will have a wax with a small amount of honey. It should not be thrown out. In winter, he will be a good medicine from a cold. Use it as a scrub, enter into cosmetic masks.

This product is very useful as honey with propolis. The following requirements are presented to its storage:

glassware glass, but opaque;
the temperature in the room is a maximum of 20 degrees above zero;
humidity is low, otherwise propolis loses its value.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated in the storage of honey. It is worth observing several rules - and you will constantly have a precious source of vitamins and an indispensable medicine from many diseases.