What temperature do you need not to exceed for a good raw honey?
sites • 26 September 2021
At what temperature does honey have to be heated too destroy the health benefits for humans?
Honey should not be heated rapidly, over direct heat. Basically, the hotter you heat it, the more potential for reducing nutritional value. Excessive heat can have detrimental effects on the nutritional value of honey. Heating up to 37°C (98.6 F) causes loss of nearly 200 components, part of which are antibacterial. Heating up to 40°C (104 F) destroys invertase, an important enzyme. Heating up to 50°C (122 F) for more than 48 hrs. turns the honey into caramel (the most valuable honey sugars become analogous to sugar). Heating honey higher than 140 degrees F for more than 2 hours will cause rapid degradation. Heating honey higher than 160 for any time period will cause rapid degradation and caramelization. Generally any larger temperature fluctuation (10°C is ideal for preservation of ripe honey) causes decay.
Unfortunately this is what happens always with industrial honeys: in fact the industry cannot easily manage cristalyzed honeys (which is the natural behaviour of nearly any honey in the world) and the market is today used to have an easy squizy liquid to use as a sweetener. To make the honey liquid the cheapest and easiest solution is to heat it up and pastorize it, the problem is that this in not honey anymore!
We at Asphodel do never heat up the honey and keep it always at low temperature to avoid to lose any property of this natural bees product.
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