Natural honey is not only a favorite delicacy of the overwhelming majority of adults and children, but also an excellent remedy that has been used by man in everyday practice since ancient times. Among all the variety of different varieties of beekeeping products, the most useful for human health and the most expensive honey, called elven honey, stands out.
Origin
The homeland of the most expensive honey in the world is Turkey, known to most Russians for its affordable and cheap resorts. It was first discovered in a valley called "Sarikair", which is located near the city of Artvin (this is the north-east of the country). The entire merit of its discovery belongs to a local beekeeper named G. Gunduz, who tracked down the flight paths of the wards he raised and discovered caves hidden from human eyes, where small reserves of honey from wild bees were kept.
The most expensive honey in the world
Subsequently, studies organized with high reliability showed that the age of the discovered product is at least 7 years old, and that the concentration of mineral substances in it is several times higher than that for ordinary honey.
This combination contributed to the fact that the cave product (the so-called elven honey) acquired a unique ability to provide a healing effect due to the most powerful energy supply emanating from the depths of the earth.
Elven honey: cost
Based on all that has been said, we can confidently assert that the best honey in the world is produced in Turkey. As the study of the practice of selling small lots of this variety has shown, it is also the most expensive (its average price can reach 5 thousand euros).
About a year later, a well-known pharmaceutical company from China bought another kilogram, paying a slightly lower amount (28 thousand euros). Only after a few years has its price dropped to the average that has been established in most European markets.
Turkish honey comes to the trading network bottled in small bottles, with a capacity of 170 and 250 grams, in the evaluation of which these portions are compared in price with the cost of a not very expensive car. Despite such "sky-high" price tags, expensive elven honey is in demand among true lovers of natural products.
Reasons for the high cost
This product got its name from the caves in which it was first discovered (their depth reaches 1.8 km in some places). For obvious reasons, getting to these places is not easy at all. It is even more difficult to find and deliver to the surface a product produced by wild bees.
The most expensive honey in the world
For these purposes, special expeditions are organized, which necessarily include the following groups of people:
- Well trained mountaineers.
- Medical professionals (pharmacists).
- Guides and staff.
- Expedition leader.
In order to extract this valuable product, at one time it took significant efforts and additional costs, comparable to the cost of finding gold-bearing veins. The natural result of all these efforts was the receipt of the first batch of the purest natural honey in the amount of 18 kilograms, the real price for which only the market could establish.
In order to avoid mistakes when buying elven honey, special measures should be taken in advance to identify it.
Main characteristics
Honey is a sweet and very useful product for the human body, with a viscous, viscous and slowly changing shape. Medical experts believe that its composition resembles human plasma, which contains almost all the world's known micro- and macroelements.
The excellent taste and medicinal qualities of Efian honey are a consequence of the uniqueness of the composition and universal application possibilities. Its last property is manifested in the fact that this product can be used as:
- Medicine for various diseases.
- Sweet and healthy addition to tea and other food products.
- For the manufacture of special medicinal tinctures and medicinal ointments.
In Russia, the most expensive honey is obtained in Bashkiria, where local beekeepers are fluent in the ancient art of the so-called beekeeping. These craftsmen have learned to collect an absolutely pure, healthy and sweet product of wild bees in forests, far from human paths and busy highways.
To this end, Bashkir beekeepers go deep into the taiga, in the very thick of which they manage to find trees suitable for collecting honey. In them, they equip special boards (this is the name for artificially created hollows for the settlement of a bee swarm-family). To attract wild insects, the bottom of a kind of "house" for bees is covered with bunches of aromatic herbs.
In the final part of the review, it should be especially noted that when purchasing even a small amount (gram, for example) of elven or any other unique honey, it is important to be able to distinguish a real product from a surrogate or fakes. This can only be done by specialists equipped with special equipment for analyzing its composition. This circumstance further increases the cost of this unique product.
