Chestnut Honey

Chestnut honey is obtained from chestnut flowers and is harvested between the months of June and October. It is a dark honey, with an aromatic smell and a complex flavour. Known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties, it is a source of proteins, vitamins B and C and mineral salts. Chestnut honey is a typical product of the Mediterranean areas, especially Italy, France, Greece and Switzerland, where in the temperate mountainous regions between 300 and 1200 meters there are entire forests of chestnut trees. This honey is obtained from the colorful chestnut flowers and is harvested between the months of June and October. Unlike many other honeys, chestnut honey has a color that varies from yellow-brown to almost black, with very dark and intense amber shades; its smell is aromatic and woody and the complex, decidedly distinct flavour, is much less sweet, with a bitter aftertaste that can also be appreciated on savory dishes of mature meats and cheeses, while it does not lend itself well to replacing sugar to sweeten herbal teas or you. Its consistency is rather liquid and the reason lies in the richness of fructose which determines the absence of crystallization.