Indic Organics Small Stingless Bee Raw Honey from Western Ghats | Wild-Flower, Unprocessed, Unheated & Unpasteurized | Produced by Small Stingless Bees | Cheruthen Honey (Small Stingless Bee Honey, 320 Gm)

Description

• Directly Sourced from Specialized Beekeepers of Stingless Honey Bee from Interior Forests of Western Ghats near Puttur TQ, Dakshina Kannada District
• The reason why Stingless Bee honey is so prized for its medicinal properties is that, due to extremely small size the stingless bee can source the nectar of small & tiny flowers of Ayurvedic & Medicinal Herbs.
• NMR Tested at SIF Facility of IISc Bangalore
• Western Ghats Region is home to some of the rarest of rare Medicinal flowers and herbs of the planet.
• Several Scientific research papers have indicated the therapeutic properties of Stingless Bee Honey including antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and moisturizing properties related to wound healing.
• The reason why Stingless Bee Honey is much more expensive is that per hive, stingless bee produces only 150-200 grams of Honey per harvest.
• The Product generally has a Frothy Layer on Top which denotes Honey is Unheated & Unprocessed
• Also, due to higher moisture content, this honey is much more liquidy and flowy Our Beekeepers do not feed any kind of Sugar Syrup to Honey Bees during the Harvesting Season
• Raw, Unprocessed, Unheated & Unpasteurized

Stingless Bee is a rare variety of Honey Bee which is very small in size and comparatively has very small stings. Most of them are incapable of causing any harm due to smaller size, that's why the name Stingless Bee. Due to their small size, they are capable to forage honey from a variety of tiny flowers of medicinal plants and herbs. But honey produced from each hives of these bees are extremely small in quantity and breeding them is also a very tedious tasks. Certain farmers of Puttur, KA belt near the Western Ghats have taken up this endeavour to breed these rare honey bees. Western Ghats Region, which is older than the Himalayas, is blessed with a rich Flora and Fauna. It is home to some of the rarest of rare flowers and herbs of the planet. That is why it has been declared as a UNESCO world heritage site and is one of the eight Hotspots of biological diversity in the world. This Honey is directly collected from specialized beekeepers of Stingless Bee in the midst of Western Ghats in the deep interior forests of Karnataka. Today Majority of Beekeepers in India have found Innovative ways to corrupt a pristine gift of Nature called Honey. These ways include dipping the honeycomb in sugar syrup and/or keeping a bowl of sugar syrup for feeding the bees. Honey bees suck on this sugar syrup confusing it with the flower's nectar and produce honey which is of substandard quality without much Health benefits. Our beekeepers do not feed sugar syrup to honey bees in the hives . This ensures the honey is collected by bees in the forests from rare medicinal flowers of Western Ghats giving this honey a dark maroonish full bodied colour and texture.

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