Wild honey or free Honey what is it and what is its truth?
Wild or free honey is a term used to denote honey that is harvested from bees in their natural homes and you may have seen many videos of them, such as rocky caves in the mountains, tree branches or any other place where bees live.
Many consumers believe that this wild honey has a higher quality and advantage than the honey produced by beekeepers inside breeding houses, and in this regard we clarify several things
First: about twenty thousand bee species have been registered around the world, seven strains of which only produce honey and are scientifically called “honey bees”, which eat human honey, and the other one has the function of pollinating flowers and does not produce honey for humans and is called wild bees .
Secondly: the bees that inhabit the mountain or any other place other than the breeding houses where the beekeeper inhabits and multiplies and free honey is harvested from them are highly likely to be bees that were raised by a beekeeper and separated from its mother hive and settled mountains or any other place .
Third: the production or harvesting of large quantities of wild or free honey in small quantities, even if it is a small investigation, is extremely difficult because it is impossible to track bees in their natural habitats, which are originally considered few .
Fourth: it is difficult to collect honey from wild bee dwellings due to the need for crushing, opening rocks and climbing, in addition to the difficulty of sorting honey from wax because it is irregularly built, unlike honey harvested through beekeeper-run breeding houses, honey is extracted from wax using the traditional squeezing and filtering method .
Fifth: scientifically, there is no preference for wild honey from honey produced in breeding cells by beekeepers, nor vice versa, one cannot be preferred over the other, except by specifying a certain criterion to distinguish between them, such as the type of flower, the percentage of sugars or the percentage of moisture and the cleanliness of the picking and packing operations
