Honey

This type of honey has a distinctive strong aroma that resembles the smell of a lime tree. The taste is sharp, slightly bitter.

In the liquid state, the honey's colour is greenish-yellow to light amber. The intensity of colour and taste differ depending on the re-gion the honey comes from. During crystallization process its con-sistency becomes fine-grained and the colour changes to white-yellow or golden-yellow. Lime blossom honey exhibits expectorant, diaphoretic, antipyretic, sedative and antispasmodic properties.

Lime blossom honey:

• is applied in the treatment of acute and chronic diseases of the upper respiratory tract, the throat and the sinuses, in throat infections and for bronchitis.

• Due to its high antibiotic activity, it is also applied in urinary tract diseases, rheumatism and neuroses.