Abstract
Honey has a positive effect on human body due to its high content of biologically active substances (e.g. monosaccharides, vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, polyphenolic compounds). The properties of honey depend on its botanical origin due to the bioactive plant components, mainly secondary metabolites that are included in honey made by bees from nectar. Herbally infused honeys are delicious products that combine the therapeutic action of herbs and honey. Additionally, herbs can provide nutrient fortified syrup for honey bees and protect them against diseases and other ecological threats.
 The aim of this study was to define the physicochemical properties of multifloral honey, herb enriched natural honey and herbhoney samples. We measured the moisture content, pH value, electrical conductivity and proline content. Although great diversity was observed in the basic properties of the examined products. In our study, we found that the electrical conductivity shows the significant differ between the groups. All the samples, including the herbhoneys passes the quality standards of honeys.
Highlights
Since the beginning of the time, honey always had been an important nutriment for humanity, as the only available sweetener
We concluded that the moisture content of herbhoneys was statistically justified lower than in the multifloral honeys and herb enriched honeys
In case of pH value, we concluded that the multifloral honeys and herb enriched honeys had significantly lower pH value than herbhoneys
Summary
Since the beginning of the time, honey always had been an important nutriment for humanity, as the only available sweetener. Beside the great number of mellifluous plants, there are lot of herbs that do not serve as nectar sources. These plants are very popular, because they have beneficial impact to human body (Nagy et al 2014). During the production bees are fed by sugar-based food containing herbals, this way the medical benefits of honey and herbals may prevail at the same time (Isadorov et al 2015, Lukasiewitcz et al 2015). According to the Codex Alimentarius, as it was mentioned above, herbhoneys cannot be called honey due to their method of production, involves feeding sugar syrup to bees. In Hungary herbhoneys can be found under the fantasy name „Többmintméz”.
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