Honey Quality Laboratory

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Honey bee and your health

honey-ql — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 03:35:38 +0000

God Almighty has commanded honey bees to inhabit mountains, caves and valleys, and from what man makes for them (from what they thrive) and to follow their path guided by an obedient and humble gift that swims with His praise and eats from all the fruits to produce a drink of various colors in which there is a cure for people. His dear book, Surat Al-Nahl: (And your Lord has revealed to the bees that you take houses from the mountains, from the trees and from the nests * Then eat from all the fruits, so follow the paths of your Lord humiliation. ” If we are certain that the stomachs in the Arabic language are the plural of a belly, and that the interpretation of the abdomen is either a stomach, a hollow, or a clan, then what comes out of the stomach of the bees are many products(Honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen, wax, bee venom) and they are all curative and different in color. We will focus on honey because the topic is about honey, which bee workers collect from the nectar of flowers and ripen it. So honey has many therapeutic properties to treat many diseases such as wounds, burns, gastrointestinal ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, eye infections, liver stimulation, anemia, and others, but how to heal there are conditions, including: – Honey should be natural because it is nourished with floral nectar, not artificial. The apiaries area is far from industrial pollutants, heavy elements such as (lead, mercury, arsenic, and pesticides) To be extracted naturally without heat treatments, sun, or severe filtering To be stored in healthy glass containers, not metallic containers that react with honey by an acidic action and excrete ferric oxide and heavy elements such as lead. The method of eating honey determines the degree of healing, God willing, stomach ulcers, for example, honey is consumed on an empty stomach an hour before breakfast without diluting with water until it treats the inner wall of the stomach, while IBS is treated two hours after the main meal with a cup of dissolved water … and so on as honey is treated and It has medical benefits, it may have harms or caveats, including. Damage caused by honey: – Butchine poisoning in children from honey bees. A child who is less than a year (12 months old) has an incomplete immune system and the intestine is clean of flora and honey. It may contain a bacterium (Sporse) Clistridum. Botulinum, which comes from the soil and then to the flowers, it is transferred to the hive by bees, and it is obtained, and it may attack the child who is less than 12 months old, and an intestinal infection may occur to him, and death may occur, God forbid, and these cases in the world have a small percentage. Not registering cases due to the difficulty of isolating the germ. Honey may contain heavy elements when the apiaries are close to pollutants or pesticides. When the apiaries are in farms and sprayed with pesticides, it is recommended to separate honey from wax because pesticides dissolve in candles more than honey because of the polarity. Honey may contain some toxic compounds from the plants themselves to feed the bees with the flowers of poisonous plants. Honey may not be suitable for human consumption because it is contaminated with fungi and yeasts as a result of the high moisture content in honey and creating conditions for its growth. Infections or ulcers may occur to some people as a result of high acidity in honey, and it may contain fungal toxins, especially (aflatoxin) resulting from a fungus. Aspergelles flaves, and as is known, this type of toxin is very dangerous for the liver and causes cancer. Medicinal benefits of honey: – Honey is useful in treating alcoholics, and this has been proven in the Ancon Hospital in England for neurological and psychological diseases, where he gave patients a solution of honey mixed with warm water at 40%. The effective effect of this solution is due to its protection of the liver, activation of the heart and its tonic effect, or due to the effect of some vitamins and antioxidants that It oxidizes alcohol residues in the body. It is well established that pathological bacteria do not live in honey for more than a few hours or a few days, because it is an inappropriate environment for their life, because it absorbs from it the vital percentage of moisture necessary for its life through plasmodium, in addition to its acidic effect and since the microbes that infect humans are mostly in a state Greenery, so it is easy to discourage by the action of previous workers, and it is no wonder if the Arabs called honey the honest keeper, Dr.Storty Flint at the United States Department of Agriculture explained that honey bees have a strange property and clear powers in absorbing moisture from anything that comes into contact with it, and therefore the bacteria die in honey as a result of absorption Moisture is in addition to other therapeutic properties that inhibit bacteria, such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), acids, etc., so it treats wounds and ulcers. Eat bee honey in the following way, one tablespoon of natural honey in the morning on an empty stomach an hour before breakfast, and another two tablespoons after lunch (the main meal) two hours dissolved in a regular cup of water (solution) in order to calm the colon and restore it to its functions to avoid food fermentation Commercial honey in stores is natural honey that is subject to government control during its entry into the Kingdom, and it must be in conformity with the Saudi standard specifications and there is, God willing, no negative effects on public health, but filling factories if honey is displayed in it for intense heat and filtering (filtering) reduces its therapeutic properties The important ones, which are less after these treatments, as honey has more than 181 compounds, and a third of them are therapeutic properties that are affected by thermal treatments and filtration, so eating raw honey is better as a treatment than honey exposed to processing (treatments) Also, displaying jars in the shops on the front directly facing the sun leads to heating and oxidation of honey, so the proportion of H.M.F (hydroxy methyl furfural) resulting from the oxidation of fructose sugar in the presence of acid and heat in addition to oxidation of some vitamins in it may be unfit for human consumption. Honey may be used to treat some eye infections, but it must be natural, not adulterated, not fermented, free from fungal contamination, and types of honey are calm, non-acidic and ripe, and dilute with 50% sterile distilled water and distilled in the eyes and prepared daily so that it does not ferment.

I wish from God, the Mighty and Sublime, to all be cured, and I thank the Riyadh Health Magazine for the opportunity

Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Arifi: Master in the properties of honey bee – PhD in the therapeutic properties of bee products

Boiling honey spoils it, and price and geographical location are not an indicator of quality

honey-ql — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 03:11:59 +0000

It is also known that honey is a food and medicine, and God Almighty mentioned it in the textual revelation in Surah An-Nahl, “It is a cure for people” verse and in the noble prophetic hadiths, including the famous hadith, God’s truthfulness and lying about your brother’s stomach There is no day that passes when people talk about honey, which has become confused for some, like other commodities such as oud, as confusion and suspicion are caused by the large supply and variation in prices, which led to a loss of confidence in a lot of honey, so I would like to clarify some facts about this important topic. The quality of honey is not determined by marketing or geographical factors or plant sources such as price, source (location), or a type of honey from a specific plant source. Honey may be from a well-known source and good plant sources at a high price and adulterated either by adding sugar or industrial feeding with sugar and vice versa. It is true that it may be cheap and good, as it is not a fixed rule for both sides. Some people talk about the quality of honey, for example, and set standards in financial matters, such as saying honey is always expensive and adulterated, and this is not a scientific rule or it is determined that good honey does not exceed the price of a kilo for forty riyals, that is, if It was forty riyals that it became a counterfeiter, so is this talk reasonable, inferred, or based on a scientific or marketing basis at all. Good honey is determined by many things, including (Method of beekeeping, geographical location, plant source, sorting method, packing method, transportation method, storage method, storage time, quality of packaging) and the previous factors, if the conditions required for good honey production are met, then God willing, whether its price is high or low, 1000 One riyal, or 5 riyals per kilo, or 500 riyals or others, the price is determined by the cost, and there may be some kind of exaggeration sometimes. The cost of honey in Saudi Arabia, according to studies conducted, especially al-Berry, is 200-250 riyals per kilo, while this figure decreases in the case of farms, as well in Yemen, close to that amount, while there are types of honey imported from many countries, the cost is very low and it may be high-quality honey and this From the grace of God to worship that he provided them with all the resources at different prices And this is a blessing from God that deserves thanks to God Almighty. In ancient times, people in the Kingdom and the Arabian Peninsula in general only knew Hadrami honey because it is the only one that is marketed with merchants who come to work in addition to the presence of honey sources in the southern region (Abha, Jazan, Taif, Al Baha …) And people are accustomed to the taste of Hadrami honey, which is usually Sidr honey or Talah, it has a specific flavor and distinctive taste, and they buy it at a high price because it is the only one and the price is not justified for the quality. Sometimes it may be abnormal or natural, but it is affected by thermal treatments such as heating to sort honey from wax and this is usually It is old among some tribes in Hadramout, and the heating as it is known increases the oxidation of fructose sugar in the presence of acids, thus increasing the hydroxy-methyl furfural (HMF) compound, “which some writers in newspapers consider as volatile oils in honey, which are oxidation products.” Some of them break down and some decrease their value according to the degree of heating, and since we discussed heating, we will review some important matters for the consumer, as I found during the conduct of the master’s research in a part of the study in particular. On the effect of heating on the properties of honey, I treated different types of honey at different temperatures of 70 ° C and 100 ° C at different times of 10 and 20 minutes and the microwave temperature at different times, and we found that after exposure to 100 ° C honey all its enzymes were destroyed and the value increased HMF to degrees exceeded the limits of standard specifications in addition to the influence of many other components in honey, such as the healing properties. As for heating honey at 70 ° C, the enzymes were affected to a lesser degree. Some people may advise the consumer to boil honey over a fire to benefit from its foam for therapeutic aspects, or to take honey and a mixture with herbal compounds I say at this point (Boiling honey destroys honey) and it is not used therapeutically, but a food substance and it may be harmful as a result of the high HMF substance affecting the liver in the long run. Also, some shop owners display honey on the storefront facing the sun, whether at sunrise or in the afternoon, and this Effect occurs on honey. Honey changes to black color as a result of caramelization and oxidation It increases its HMF content and increases the chances of fermentation for honey by encouraging the growth of yeasts and fungi, as the enzymes are affected by the low value and oxidation of some nutrients such as vitamins and minerals. Therefore, we advise against buying honey displayed on the storefront exposed to the sun, as I advise shop owners not to display honey On these facades, they are kept at storage temperatures not exceeding 25 ° C. Finally, we provide the consumer with a brief summary of how to buy honey 1- Honey has been sensually examined by him and that it tastes good, smells good, does not have strange or unpleasant odors, does not have fizziness or foam (i.e. not fermented), coherent i.e. mature, its moisture is not high because it is an opportunity for the growth of fungi 2- After that, he takes a sample for laboratory examination to ensure the quality of honey by analyzing it chemically to ensure the proportion of sucrose, moisture, reducing sugars (glucose – fructose), HMF, acidity, diastase enzyme, pink source of honey, percentage of ash, insoluble solids Yeasts and fungi. And some of them may be satisfied, and if they are all in conformity with the specifications and within the optimal limits, then it will be, God willing, therapeutic and according to the source of syphilis, it has an effect on some diseases 3- As for the price, it is not an indicator of quality, it may be cheap or expensive, but we advise the consumer of what the price has decreased and its quality increased.

Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Arifi Master in the properties of honey bee PhD in the therapeutic properties of bee products

The name of the newspaper / Riyadh- Issue No. / 13048 Date 1/24/1425 AH Writer / Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Arifi