Raw Portuguese Chestnut Honey
Raw Portuguese Chestnut Honey
Characteristics of Chestnut Honey
Chestnut honey is a silky, dark amber-colored honey with the characteristic floral, nutty flavor of chestnut and the scent of chestnut blossoms. Our chestnut honey comes from the sweet chestnut tree or Castanea Sativa. Chestnut honey can range from very dark and bitter to milder and sweeter, depending on the ratio of chestnut honeydew and other flower nectars.
Origin and Quality
This year, 2017, our chestnut honey comes from a new producer in the Mirandela area in the far northeast of Portugal, an area famous for its chestnut forests in and around the Montesinho National Park. This is a rich, aromatic, beautifully balanced chestnut honey, one of the best we have ever tasted.
Applications and Features
For those of you who use honey to sweeten your drinks, chestnut honey is perfect in coffee; it complements the taste of coffee with a delicious nutty flavor. It also adds a wonderful festive touch to Christmas desserts and frostings.
Chestnut honey is a honeydew honey, as well as a nectar honey, known for its antioxidant properties. Honeydew is rich in oligosaccharides and is made by bees that forage on sweet secretions of aphids, where aphids have first fed on the sap of trees or even fruits. Due to the composition of its sugars (low in glucose), it does not crystallize easily and remains liquid for longer.
Tips for Use and Storage
Honey and crystallization. Crystallization is a completely natural process and occurs with all raw honey. The rate and magnitude of crystallization depend on variations in the balance of sugars, ambient temperature, and to some extent water content. If your honey has hardened, you can liquefy it again by placing it in a pan of lukewarm water (and repeating if necessary), with a spoon first placed in hot water, and of course by storing it in a sunny /warm place in the house.
Raw Portuguese Chestnut Honey
Raw Portuguese Chestnut Honey
Characteristics of Chestnut Honey
Chestnut honey is a silky, dark amber-colored honey with the characteristic floral, nutty flavor of chestnut and the scent of chestnut blossoms. Our chestnut honey comes from the sweet chestnut tree or Castanea Sativa. Chestnut honey can range from very dark and bitter to milder and sweeter, depending on the ratio of chestnut honeydew and other flower nectars.
Origin and Quality
This year, 2017, our chestnut honey comes from a new producer in the Mirandela area in the far northeast of Portugal, an area famous for its chestnut forests in and around the Montesinho National Park. This is a rich, aromatic, beautifully balanced chestnut honey, one of the best we have ever tasted.
Applications and Features
For those of you who use honey to sweeten your drinks, chestnut honey is perfect in coffee; it complements the taste of coffee with a delicious nutty flavor. It also adds a wonderful festive touch to Christmas desserts and frostings.
Chestnut honey is a honeydew honey, as well as a nectar honey, known for its antioxidant properties. Honeydew is rich in oligosaccharides and is made by bees that forage on sweet secretions of aphids, where aphids have first fed on the sap of trees or even fruits. Due to the composition of its sugars (low in glucose), it does not crystallize easily and remains liquid for longer.
Tips for Use and Storage
Honey and crystallization. Crystallization is a completely natural process and occurs with all raw honey. The rate and magnitude of crystallization depend on variations in the balance of sugars, ambient temperature, and to some extent water content. If your honey has hardened, you can liquefy it again by placing it in a pan of lukewarm water (and repeating if necessary), with a spoon first placed in hot water, and of course by storing it in a sunny /warm place in the house.