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Honey is one of nature's most valuable raw materials - and has been for twelve thousand years. Ist constituents are valued in nutrition as well as in medicine and cosmetics. Like no other agricultural product, honey production is in harmony with nature, because the bee depends on an intact enviroment.
This highly topical standard work provides everthing about honey:
World`s honey trade
Honey production and extraction
Treatment and constituents
Marketing and declaration
Legal requirements
Health, cosmetics and honey recipes
Dr. Dr. Helmut Horn was head of the honey laboratory at the Landesanstalt für Bienenkunde at the University of Hohenheim and has been involved in pollen and honey analysis for many years.
Dr. Cord Lüllmann was from 1988 to 2013 head of the Institute for Honey Research in Bremen, which changed its name to QSI GmbH in 2000, and currently works as technical coordinator for the parent company Tentamus.
List of contents
1 The history of beekeeping
2 World`s honey trade
3 Honey - Definition
4 Raw materials of honey
5 Anatomical basics of honey preparation
6 Honey extraction
7 Treatment and storage of honey
8 Marketing of honey
9 Natural honey composition
10 Chemical-physical parameters of honey
11 Quality control of honey
12 Declaration
13 Honey and health
14 Honey in other applications
15 Annex
16 Bibliography
17 Contacts
About the author
Dr. Dr. Helmut Horn was head of the honey laboratory at the Landesanstalt für Bienenkunde at the University of Hohenheim and has been involved in pollen and honey analysis for many years.
Dr. Cord Lüllmann was from 1988 to 2013 head of the Institute for Honey Research in Bremen, which changed its name to QSI GmbH in 2000, and currently works as technical coordinator for the parent company Tentamus.
