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Bharat Honey stands out for being raw Honey, It is 100% pure, natural, and unaltered. With absolutely zero adulteration and minimal processing, Bharat Honey is free from any form of chemical additives like preservatives, antibiotics, aroma, and external color. Hence it is ideal for medicinal use.

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[accordion-item title=”What is raw honey?”]

Raw Honey simply means honey as present in the honeycomb. It has many essential micronutrients, including beneficial enzymes and bee pollen.

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[accordion-item title=”Whether bharat honey is raw or processed?”]

Bharat Honey is just about ‘RAW’ because it is utterly unheated, unprocessed, and unfiltered. Hence bee pollen and all essential nutrients like vitamins, minerals & live natural enzymes are intact.

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[accordion-item title=”Is bharat honey organic?”]

Yes, Bharat Honey is 100% Pure, Natural & Organic Honey.

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[accordion-item title=”Is bharat honey ‘organic certified’?”]

No, Bharat Honey is not certified as organic honey. Because genuine certification is a very expensive and complex process.
However, when you compare Bharat Honey with any certified organic honey, you will find Bharat Honey equal to or even better than the certified organic honey.

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[accordion-item title=”How do you know if honey is pure?”]

We follow these steps to ensure the purity of Bharat honey:
1) Till today, we don’t rely on intermediaries to source our honey. We travel to each area personally to source our honey. This enables us to get raw honey directly from the fields.
2) After procurement, Honey undergoes testing in the world’s topmost laboratory ie INTERTEK (Germany). Apart from the common adulterants (Invert sugar, HFCS and rice syrup) which is added externally, these tests can even detect whether honey bees are fed with sugar syrup.
3) To ensure the authentic variety, Bharat honey undergoes a pollen test. In this test, honey is viewed under a microscope. If more than 50% of bee pollen belongs to one particular flower that honey is mono-floral honey (Ex Jamun Honey).
4) The AGMARK label, under which Bharat Honey packaging takes place, also signifies its purity and rawness. Honey undergoes testing before packing and after this. it releases in the market.
5) We also offer a reward of Rs. 10,000 on each bottle if any adulteration is found. We are that confident! and this will bond us even more to maintain the purity of our honey.
Don’t believe in old testing methods link thumb test and water solubility test etc. Always believe in advanced laboratory tests like the NMR test for honey.
To know authentic information about honey testing or to test pure honey, please go through our video ”HOW TO CHECK PURITY OF HONEY”.

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[accordion-item title=”What is the price of bharat honey?”]

BHARAT HONEY sells the following authentic varieties of Natural Honey. Following are the latest Prices.
Multiflora honey 460/-per Kg
Kashmir (small bee) honey 900/- per kg (Young Children like Kashmir honey a lot because of its sweetness)
Sidr honey 900/- per kg
Jamun honey 350/- 500g
Litchi Honey 270/- 500gm.

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[accordion-item title=”Where can i buy bharat honey?”]

You can buy Bharat Honey (which is 100% Natural & raw honey) from bharathoney.com or amazon.in. Check the coupon codes before you proceed to check out.

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[accordion-item title=”Does natural honey expire?”]

It is essential for you to know that natural honey doesn’t expire if stored properly. It is always recommendable to store natural honey in a cool and dry place. it should be stored in glass or stainless steel container. This way it gives you longer shelf life.
As a matter of fact, Bharat Honey doesn’t have an expiry date.
However, we find “Best before” date mentioned on all honey labels, only meant to follow the label rules of food regulations.
Pure and natural honey only darkens with age, and this darkening process fastens with an increase in temperature. Honey ageing is measured by the evaluation of HMF (hydroxymethylfurfural) content in honey.
The darkening of natural honey is also a possible result of Millard’s reaction. This reaction mainly takes place between the amino acids and monosaccharides present in honey.
In spite of darkening, honey will be edible for thousands of years. Honey found in the Egyptian pyramid was edible even after 3000 long years.

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[accordion-item title=”What is honey processing and why it is done?”]

In earlier days people use to consume honey directly from beehives. All the benefits attributed to honey is because of its bioactive compounds like antioxidants, enzymes, bee pollen and micronutrients like vitamins and minerals.
Nowadays, when commercial interest took over. They process honey extensively to make it more appealing and smooth, Compromising its nutritional and medicinal value.
Processing of honey includes heating, filtration and moisture reduction. It is a common practice in most of the commercial honey.
Heating Honey:
If honey is Heated beyond 45°C, It starts losing its nutritive value. The industry practice is to heat honey around 65-70°C. This robs all the nutrition from honey. This is done to pasteurise and kill yeast activity in honey.
Honey filtration:
The industry practice is to filter honey with 10-50 micron filter. They do the filtration to remove all the undissolved particles in honey including wax particles and bee pollen. This delays the crystallisation process of honey and also makes honey smooth and shining.
Moisture reduction:
During bulk production of honey, honey often extracted unripe. Unripe honey is thin watery with moisture ranging from 20-25%. Whereas Ripe honey has 18% moisture. That extra moisture is removed by heating and evaporating honey. But heat also removes the natural aroma of honey besides, causing damage to its nutrition value.
Why processing?
During commercial production, honey often extracted unripe. Unripe honey has a moisture level of 20-25%. This excess moisture may cause fermentation in honey.
Honey is heated to kill yeast and remove excess moisture. High heat also makes ultrafiltration possible.
High heating and ultrafiltration give honey a shining and smooth look. Also, retard the crystallisation process of honey.
Moreover, the blending of adulterants is done during the heat processing of honey.

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[accordion-item title=”How does bharat honey escape honey processing?”]

Our three decades of experience help us in escaping the processing of honey.
The main quality of honey is made in nature’s factory that is “BEEHIVE”. If honey harvesting happens after proper ripening, honey does not require any processing.
Ripe honey has less moisture, hence does not require heating or pasteurization. But still, there might be some visible particles like dust, part of leaves, bee pollen chunks, bees debris or bigger wax particles etc.
Our method is to remove these particles at the source level by a method called “separation process”.
“Honey is made to stand for a day in a container then removed from the tap.
Finally, Discards the upper layer which may contain organic impurities like leaves, wax, pollen chunks, bee debris etc, including heavy impurities like dust or sand settle in the bottom “.
This simple procedure makes honey clean at the source. Then honey transported to our clean facility where it is warmed and strained to remove any remaining visible impurities.
Note: In our whole process Honey never goes beyond 45°c.

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[accordion-item title=”What is the major difference between bharat honey & other commercial honey?”]

PURITY OF HONEY
Bharat Honey is 100% pure, natural, and unprocessed. It doesn’t contain any chemical additives, preservatives, antibiotics, external colour, and aroma.
On the other hand, commercial honey is adulterated with synthetic honey such as rice syrup, invert sugars or high-fructose corn syrup.
Most of the commercial honey is processed at high temperatures and then filtered for the removal of bee pollen and other visible impurities. It also contains anti-granulating chemicals for the prevention of natural granulation or crystallization process. So, the valuable properties of honey are lost in this process.
VARIETIES OF HONEY
All Natural produce has varieties such as Natural honey. The aroma, colour and taste of honey will be different in each area depending on the flower source.
Bharat Honey delivers authentic varieties of natural honey, which can be proved by the pollen test under the microscope.
Commercial honey doesn’t have varieties. It always has the same taste, colour, and aroma as if it is made in factories. This may be the result of heavy processing or adulteration.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF HONEY
Bharat Honey has all nutritional and medicinal values intact. Bharat Honey can support your good health, enhance your immunity power, and help with the absorption of nutrients and minerals from other foods. Start your day with warm water and Bharat honey.
Commercial honey usually has no health benefits due to its adulterated contents. In fact, honey adulterants like rice syrup and HFCS often have links with health ailments like obesity, cardiac problems, and diabetes.
CRYSTALLISATION OF HONEY
Just like any natural honey, Bharat Honey tends to crystallize and form white granules, especially in cold temperatures.
We believe in creating awareness regarding crystallization rather than ruining honey by heavy processing and adding chemicals to prevent crystallization.
On the other hand, most of the commercial honey is heavily processed and adulterated with rice syrup which doesn’t granulate or crystallize, even if refrigerated.

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[accordion-item title=”Why is commercial honey sold at cheaper price?”]

Most commercial brands sell honey at low or discounted prices because of its adulteration. As a matter of fact, the adulteration practice in honey is obligatory due to the following reasons:
– Pure, natural honey varies in colour, taste, and aroma according to its floral source, and commercial brands require uniform honey in large quantities which is next to impossible.
– Pure and naturally organic honey tends to granulate as white crystals (sooner or later) as it contains glucose and fructose. This phenomenon of natural honey is not favourable for commercial brands. Adulterants like rice syrup does crystallize.
– Commercial brands usually require large quantities of honey at low and constant prices, which is not possible because of the scattered production of natural honey.

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[accordion-item title=”How does bharat honey team procures natural honey?”]

Three decades ago “Bharat Honey” started as a small business of collecting honey from the tribal. Today has a widespread network of natural honey collection across the country.
We travel directly to different forests across the country during the honey flow season to collect pure organic honey straight from the source.
Our whole story is best described in the following video:The story of Bharat honey.

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[accordion-item title=”Why are there so many varieties? What is mono-flora honey?”]

The aroma, taste and colour of Natural honey differ in each area.
Honeybees fly in a radius of 1-2 km to collect nectar. If a single type of flower covers 50% of that area, then it is called mono-floral honey.

Following monofloral honey are possible in India Sidr honey, Jamun honey, eucalyptus honey, ajwain honey, litchi honey, mustard honey etc.

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[accordion-item title=”Do all flowers produce honey?”]

As a matter of fact, honey bees visit almost every flower for the purpose of cross-pollination. But every flower does not have sufficient nectar so that it can be stored (as honey).

For Example, Neem, Rose, Aloe vera, Saffron, coconut, lotus etc, These monofloral honey are not possible.
( BEWARE )

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[accordion-item title=”How many types of honey bees are present in india?”]

There are basically five types of honeybees present in India:
Apis Dorsata – (size : 3 cm)
Wild Honey HarvestingAlso known as Rock Bee Honey, they usually make hives in open areas because they cannot be domesticated. It is the tribal people who harvest the rock bee honey. Each hive of Apis Dorsata contains around 10 to 15 kgs of honey.
Apis Florea – (size: 7mm)
Apis florea (honey bee)This type of honey bees makes their hives on trees. Alike Apis Dorsata, this honey bee mostly lives in open areas and cannot be domesticated. Each hive of Apis Florea can give about 0.2 to 1 kilograms of pure, natural honey.
Apis Cerena Indica – ( size: 9mm)
Apis cerena indicaIt is a native Indian bee that is known for making its hives in close spaces in the form of multiple plates. Unlike Apis Dorsata and Apis Florea, this honey bee can be easily domesticated. You can extract as much as 2 to 5 kgs of honey from its colony during the flowering season.
Apis Mellifera – (size: 1.5 cm)
Apis melliferaThis type of Indian honeybee is mainly used for the commercial production of honey. Beekeepers migrate them to flower-rich areas for the collection of nectar and extraction of honey. Each colony of Apis Mellifera can give about 5 to 10 kilograms of honey.
Apis Trigona – (size: 5 mm)
Apis trigonaAlso popular as the stingless bee, Apis Trigona is the smallest bee that makes small pot-like hives for collecting honey. The honey collected by this honeybee is sour, and therefore, there is no harvest of this honey for human consumption.

Bharat Honey is mainly harvested from Apis Mellifera beehives. Jamun and Multiflora Bharat Honey are extracted from the hives of Apis Dorsata or wild bees.

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[accordion-item title=”Can bharat honey be used in preparation of herbal medicines?”]

Yes, indeed. All varieties of Bharat Honey can be useful for preparing herbal medicines. Many herbalists have recommended Bharat Honey as the ideal honey for herbal medicine preparation.

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[accordion-item title=”How to store natural honey?”]

Ideally, honey should be stored in a glass jar or stainless steel vessel.
Honey should be kept airtight jar or vessel. This is because, If the atmosphere is humid (RH above 48%), honey imbibes water and get fermented.
Honey should be stored in a cool place. But should not be refrigerated otherwise it may get crystallized.

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Bharat Honey is 100% pure and natural honey, With absolutely zero adulteration and minimal processing, Bharat Honey is free from any form of chemical additives like preservatives, antibiotics, aroma, and external colour. Hence it is ideal for medicinal use as it is medically graded honey.

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