Honey storage in the home: basic rules

The usefulness of honey is known to everyone, since this natural product has medicinal properties. It is used for various diseases as an additional treatment. With the constant use of honey, there is an increase in immunity, restoration of strength and improvement of the general state of the body. However, if the content of the product is not in accordance with the relevant conditions, it may lose some useful properties. Also, the taste may deteriorate. Honey storage in the home requires compliance with certain rules, the main points of which we will try to highlight in this article.

Product Storage Tanks

Honey storage at home means the content of the product, in which such properties of the product will not be lost:

• Anti-inflammatory.
• Bactericidal.
• Enveloping.
• Restorative and others.

Contain a natural product is recommended in such containers:

• Barrels of hardwood.
• Tin cans, utensils made of aluminum or stainless steel.
• Ceramic products with glaze coating.
• Glass containers.

It is not recommended to place honey in containers made of copper, lead, zinc, iron, and also it is impossible to store it in products made from oak.

Premise for keeping honey

Honey storage at home conditions the preparation of a special room for these purposes. It is better to take into account such moments:

• The room should maintain a constant temperature (0-10 ° C) at a humidity of not more than 70%.
• Absence of extraneous odors, that is, it is impossible to place such products as salt, oil and others even very well corked with honey. Especially it is impossible to store it in the neighborhood with petroleum products and other chemical substances.
• The room should be well ventilated, and at the same time on the honey should not fall direct rays of the sun. Therefore it is better to use opaque containers.

Since this product is highly hygroscopic, it can quickly absorb moisture from the environment and other substances. As a consequence, storage of honey in the refrigerator is not recommended.

Highlights of storage

Honey in honeycomb can be stored as long as desired. Fungi and mold are destroyed by substances contained in the product itself and natural "packagings". In this case, the optimal conditions that prescribe the rules for storing honey are as follows: temperature - about 5 ° С, humidity - about 60%.

It is noted that honey can absorb moisture from the environment, even in closed vessels, with a vapor level in the air of more than 70%. If the value of this indicator is below 30%, then the product, on the contrary, releases water particles.

It is forbidden to contain honey at a temperature above 15 ° C, since in this case acid reactions begin to occur in its composition. And when heated to 40 ° C, vitamins and other substances are destroyed, and the natural product itself loses its healing properties.

It is better to store honey at home under optimal conditions. In this case, the product will not lose its useful qualities, due to which it is such a valuable product of "natural masters" - bees.