Russian honey at FOODEX JAPAN 2017 exhibition

02/12/2016

Natural honey is an elixir of health and longevity. His life-giving force known even in Ancient Rus’ (Ruthenia): in the old days people ate and drank the honey, it reinstates health.
People prepared fragrant drinks from honey in Ancient Rus’: mead, honey wine, honey beer, stewed fruit. People ate honey with pancakes and cereals, added it to flour and kneaded dough for cakes and pies. Gingerbread didn't stale hard because of honey in it. People mixed the honey everywhere, because in general there were no other sweets except honey.

Another interesting fact is that the term "honeymoon" comes from the ancient custom. According to it bride couple should drink light-body mead drink during the month after the wedding.

Natural honey is a healer of our body. It is rich in micro-and macro-elements, vitamins, minerals. Honey is well absorbed by our body. It normalizes metabolism and has beneficial effects on digestion. Honey is the most delicious and effective cure for the common cold. With antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antiviral effect, it helps with sore throat, cough, it also relieves asthma. Honey is a source of energy. Supplying the body carbohydrates, it increases the body's energy reserve, makes us stronger and sturdier. It is a source of iron, calcium and potassium, which are so necessary for muscles and bones.

The healing properties of honey depend on the plant from which it was made. The most famous kinds of honey - chestnut, clover, lime, acacia, buckwheat, sow-thistle, willow herb, maple, and sunflower.

Honey business was one of the most important thing in the life of our ancestors. Technique of collecting honey passed down from generation to generation, family traditions were saved carefully.

Beekeeping in Bashkortostan, Russia is an ancient occupation of native inhabitants with deep historical roots, thousand-year experience and traditions. Food quality of Bashkirian honey is out of line with other sorts of Russian honey. It has unique organoleptic, physical-chemical characteristics and therapeutic qualities. Bashkirian honey has sweet pleasant taste rating from weak to strong without any foreign flavours. The Republic of Bashkortostan is the only region in Russia where you can find more than 400 kinds of nectariferous and polliniferous plants. Bashkirian honey is famous thanks to linden, which is the main bee plant of the Republic.

Last century Bashkirian honey was triply awarded gold medals at big international exhibition fairs: in Paris in 1900, in Erfurt in 1961 and in Moscow in 1971. Bashkirian bee kind also was awarded a diploma and a silver medal at International Beekeepers' Congress in Bucharest in 1965 and two gold and two silver medals at Russian Agro-Industrial exhibition "Golden Autumn" in 2002-2005 (Moscow).

The largest food exhibition in Asia - the FOODEX JAPAN 2017 exhibition will take place from March 7 to 10, 2017 in Makuhari Messe, where you can also find Bashkirian honey on our, AJ Co., Ltd booth.

Makuhari Messe:

2-1, Nakase, Mihama-ku, Chiba-city, 261-8550 Japan

March 7(Tue) - 10(Fri), 2017
10:00-17:00(16:30 on last day)

Our booth No. is 6F13 (6th hall).

Please come to visit our booth at FOODEX JAPAN 2017!

http://www.jma.or.jp/foodex/en/