APINATURA SARDINIAN HONEY
hazelnuts-honey cream
Discover the delicious taste of our hazelnuts-honey cream – a true treat for young and old. Made with only two natural ingredients: the finest roasted organic hazelnuts and pure organic honey.
Why you’ll love our cream:
- Purely natural: Without artificial additives like lecithin, gluten, milk, sugar, or palm oil.
- Healthy and delicious: A perfect combination of healthy fats and natural sweeteners.
- For all tastes: Even those who don’t like honey will love this cream.
- Versatile: Whether on bread, in cakes, on crêpes, or simply on its own – the possibilities are endless.
Treat yourself and your family to something good – with our nut-honey cream!
Only two ingredients: fine eucalyptus honey and toasted hazelnut.
Eucalyptus Honey
Eucalyptus honey is one of the most widespread and appreciated honeys in Sardinia. Eucalyptus, originally from Australia, was introduced to Sardinia at the beginning of the 20th century to reclaim swampy areas. Today, although its diffusion has decreased in favor of native species, it remains a significant presence and its honey is a typical product of the island.
Characteristics:
- Color: Amber, with shades that vary from light to dark depending on the honey extraction period.
- Aroma: Intense, with notes of licorice and forest, sometimes with hints of caramel and smoke.
- Flavor: Persistent, balsamic, not excessively sweet, with an aftertaste reminiscent of licorice.
- Texture: Tends to crystallize rapidly, with fine to medium-sized crystals, forming a compact mass.
Uses:
Eucalyptus honey is excellent consumed naturally, spread on bread or crackers, or dissolved in hot drinks such as herbal teas and infusions. It can also be used as a natural sweetener instead of sugar.
Production in Sardinia:
Sardinia is one of the main regions producing eucalyptus honey in Italy. Eucalyptus blooms in June and its widespread presence on the island guarantees significant production. Foraging bees collect nectar from the flowers and transform it into honey inside the hive. Subsequently, the honey is extracted, filtered, and packaged.
STRAWBERRY TREE HONEY (Arbutus Honey) –
A Bitter and Precious Nectar
STRAWBERRY TREE HONEY is a unique and prized apiculture product, renowned for its intense and bitter flavor that sets it apart from all other honeys. Originating from Mediterranean regions, this honey is produced by bees that collect nectar from the flowers of the arbutus tree, an evergreen shrub that produces small edible red fruits.
Unique Characteristics
- Flavor: The flavor of STRAWBERRY TREE HONEY is unmistakable: bitter, intense, and slightly astringent, with aromatic notes reminiscent of cocoa, coffee, and licorice.
- Color: The color varies from dark red to dark brown, depending on the production area and climatic conditions.
- Crystallization: It has a tendency to crystallize rapidly and finely, taking on a creamy and spreadable consistency.
Culinary Uses Despite its bitter taste, STRAWBERRY TREE HONEY finds numerous uses in the kitchen:
- Condiment: Perfect for flavoring aged cheeses, grilled meats, and game.
- Sweetener: Can be used to sweeten tea, herbal teas, and yogurt.
- Baking ingredient: Ideal for preparing desserts with a bold flavor, such as cakes, cookies, and creams.
- Pairings: It pairs very well with strong and decisive flavors, such as those of dark chocolate, red fruits, and spices.
Why Choose STRAWBERRY TREE HONEY?
- Rarity: The production of this honey is limited and seasonal, making it a rare and sought-after product.
- Quality: It is a natural and pure product, obtained without the addition of chemical substances.
- Health benefits: Its numerous beneficial properties make it a valuable food for overall well-being.
- Unique taste: Its intense and bitter flavor makes it an unforgettable taste experience.
STRAWBERRY TREE HONEY is a true treasure of nature, a precious and versatile food that deserves to be discovered and appreciated.
Affodil Honey
Affodil honey is excellent for preparing traditional sweets, seasoning lightly spiced fruit salads or in combination with teas and infusions, desserts or yogurt, but also with cheese.
Its properties include promoting digestion and purifying the body. It also has restorative and healing properties. The affodil is a wild-growing plant that thrives on fallow land. The honey produced from it is free of chemical additives such as pesticides, fertilizers or artificial fertilizers; it can therefore be concluded that Apinath affodil honey is more than just organic.
The delicate taste of affodil honey makes it ideal for sweetening teas and coffee, as it only adds sweetness without affecting the taste of the beverage. Affodil honey is an excellent substitute for recipes that call for acacia honey.
The affodil is widespread at various altitudes from 0 to 1200 m and often forms extensive populations on pastures. It is a perennial herbaceous plant with a height of 0.5 to 1.5 m, tuberous, spindle-shaped roots, exclusively basal leaves 25 to 45 cm long and 1 to 2 cm wide, which are flat and slightly keeled. The inflorescence is richly branched, pyramidal and sits on a robust stem. The bracts are membranous to pale green, the flowers stalked with a 5 to 7 mm long stalk. The white petals have a red-brown midrib and are 10 to 16 mm long. The flowering period is in spring.
Thistle Honey
Thistle honey is a unique and precious product, a true treasure of the island, not found in other parts of the world, and which deserves to be discovered and appreciated.
Recommended in black and strong teas, it can be accompanied by tasty cheeses to make their acidity more homogeneous.
It is a honey with a decisive and characteristic taste, its intense aroma is reminiscent of the flowers in the Mediterranean landscape, which is rich in very sweet notes. The aroma is very rich and slightly spicy: it is reminiscent of cinnamon with a slight hint of nutmeg. In the throat, it spreads all its character with a strong and unmistakable bouquet and leaves a very sweet and lasting taste.
Chestnut honey
Sweet with a subtle bitterness, produced in limited quantities in the Desulo area, amidst the Gennargentu mountains.
Zen – Honey and Ginger
All the benefits of honey and fresh ginger root extract in a single product. The precise dehumidification allows it to be stored outside the refrigerator for immediate use.
Specially dehumidified eucalyptus honey, to avoid fermentation, with the addition of at least 4% cold-extracted ginger.
Sulla Honey
(Clover family) Due to its sweetness and non-aggressive taste, it is ideal for sweetening tea, herbal teas, and coffee. Light color, almost white when crystallized; has a delicate taste, pleasant aroma. Invigorating, detoxifying, it is produced in high Marmilla, where it grows naturally.
Adding a spoonful of honey to yogurt creates a protective shield for the lactic acid bacteria. This shield helps the good bacteria survive stomach acids and gastric juices, allowing them to reach the intestines alive and active. HONEY ADDED TO YOGURT SHOWS PREBIOTIC POTENTIAL
Orange Honey
Taste: aromatic between floral and fruity Properties: promotes wound healing, soothes, antispasmodic. Against insomnia and restlessness. Has a calming and antispasmodic effect: The honey has relaxing properties and helps with falling asleep. Orange honey is also excellent as a remedy for nervousness and stress. Orange honey is recommended for both adults and children. Sardinia is known for its beautiful orange groves. Apinath orange honey is produced in Zerfaliu, where particularly beautiful and tasty fruits are harvested. Due to its fruity aroma, it is ideal for breakfast, but is also ideal for sweetening drinks. A hot milk or tea tastes twice as good with the aroma of orange honey. Orange honey has a relaxing and calming effect, so a spoonful before bed is recommended. It stimulates the appetite, cleanses the body, is rich in vitamins and minerals, and counteracts free radicals due to its antioxidant effect.
Wildflower Honey
The nectar of all the flowers of Sardinia in a single product. This is both the most common type of honey and the rarest. Because it is made from nectars of flowers that bloom at a certain time in a certain place, it is essentially impossible to reproduce it exactly from year to year. Ideal for breakfast, for sweetening warm drinks, as a sugar substitute in pastries and sweets.
Mediterranean scrub
An authentic blossom honey from the Flumendosa Valley,
a pure and multifaceted expression of the region.
Melissopalynological/microscopic analysis (UNI 11299:2008):
Type: Honey from Sardinia (Italy)
Presumed botanical origin: Heather, Asphodel, Wild Lavender
Pollen analysis results: Ferula (43%): High proportion, but below the UNI limit (45%) for single-variety honeys.
Wild Lavender (19%): Exceeds the pollen limit for single-variety honeys (15%), but the high Ferula content alters the organoleptic profile.
Asphodel (4%): Species with an underrepresented pollen content. The quantitative data (15,000 kernels/10 g) indicate a pure Asphodel variety.
Heather (1%): Present in traces.
This exceptional biodiversity underscores the excellence of the product: an authentic wild honey from the Mediterranean scrubland of the Flumendosa Valley, a pure and multifaceted expression of the region.
Abbamele
Abbamele – a Sardinian honey preparation made from honey and orange peel – uniquely delicious, excellent with ricotta cheese. Abbamele – the Sardinian essence of honey. Anyone who has ever tasted Abbamele will never forget its taste. Honeycombs contain honey and pollen. The combs are cleaned, reduced with oranges and thus create a wonderful, sweet, Sardinian pleasure. Also known as Abbattu, Abazu or Sapa di miele. Abbamele is not too sweet, has a wonderful orange note and a slight bitterness. Perfect for many recipes of Sardinian cuisine and for salads, cheese, fresh fruit or as ice cream.
Rock Rose Honey
The honey of the cistus or rock rose is collected by bees in higher, stony areas, where there is no agriculture and the plants grow naturally. This honey has a particularly strong and spicy taste.
The rockrose is a symbol of Mediterranean resilience. Thanks to its deep roots, it survives extreme heat and drought. It protects nectar and pollen by opening its blossoms in the morning and closing them in the evening. Because the delicate blossoms are quickly rendered unusable by intense heat or sudden rain, the harvest is variable. Rockrose honey is therefore one of the rarest honeys in Italy. The CISTO honey is dark, aromatic, and intense. According to the beekeeper’s basic rule: the darker the honey, the richer it is in polyphenols, flavonoids, and minerals.
Its salty note goes perfectly with cheese, yogurt, or bread, but is less suitable for sweetening mild teas.
The high mineral content regulates fluid balance and supports muscle contraction and nerve conduction. This effectively prevents muscle fatigue, cramps, and feelings of weakness.
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Wild Lavender Honey
Lavender belongs to the mint family and forms a genus of its own with more than 20 different species. They are native to the entire Mediterranean region. Wild lavender (Lavendula stoechas) is also called spike lavender and grows preferentially in the Mediterranean, sunny and coastal mountains above 500 to 800 m above sea level. Its delicate, light purple flowers provide a fine nectar from which the bees produce this exquisite.
FRESH POLLEN ❄️❄️– polline
The properties of pollen, make this product, which is secreted by plants, an excellent companion for the daily diet. The consumption of pollen has important benefits for the body, which are quickly noticed. Consumption is also beneficial for many diseases. Pollen is a product of the secretion of the male plant organs, whose task is to fertilize the female organs. That is why its composition contains indispensable elements for life. Among them, its high content of proteins, vitamins and hormones, which promote growth, stand out. In addition, pollen contains carbohydrates, lipid complexes, diastase and trace elements. The benefits of pollen come from its cleansing, stimulating and revitalizing properties. It stimulates the appetite, increases work capacity and lowers blood pressure. The effects of pollen consumption begin to appear after just a few days, increasing fatigue resistance and intellectual capacity. Taking pollen is good for anemia and promotes the production of red blood cells and helps in wound healing, which is why it is taken for ulcers. It is also ideal for regaining vitality, which is why it is recommended for weak, convalescent, stressed people, as well as the elderly and pregnant women. In children, pollen promotes growth. Among the other medical properties, pollen is useful for preventing prostatitis. It is beneficial for hypertension, varicose veins, intestinal and liver problems, bronchial asthma, eczema, diabetes, visual disturbances, anxiety, irritability and nervousness, among other disorders.
ROYAL JELLY⚕️
We offer exclusively made in Italy royal jelly, a guarantee in international beekeeping products as Italian laws are the only ones that do not allow the use of chemicals or medicines and antibiotics to treat the health of bees. This guarantees a quality difficult to find in other hive products from EU or non-EU.
Our fresh royal jelly is distributed in a special polystyrene package suitable for preserving its temperature during transport or shipping.
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Beeswax Beauty Cream
An old natural remedy in Sardinia for dry skin, lips, minor burns, sunburn, chapped hands, feet, using beeswax, olive oil and a drop of essential oil.
Pure beeswax is a natural and non-toxic product with a delicate honeyed scent. It has emollient and moisturizing properties, forming a protective barrier on the skin and helping to keep it soft and hydrated. Numerous studies also suggest antibacterial properties and zero allergic reactions.
Also available with almond oil.
PROPOLIS
Propolis is a resinous substance collected by bees from tree buds. Despite its health benefits, recognized for millennia, the use of propolis, or propolis, has never been studied with enough sufficiency to be proposed as a health remedy as tradition would instead seem to confirm. Some studies, however, demonstrate that honey and propolis generally have antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, but scientific literature has always found it difficult to attribute commonly recognized health properties to them due to too much difference between the numerous different varieties produced on the planet, each with its own unique pollen characteristics.
Propolis, produced exclusively by bees, can still be found on pharmacy shelves as a supplement because it “promotes the body’s physiological defense functions and is useful in cases of gastritis, digestive difficulties, for throat comfort, intestinal health and for a more effective immune response. Also diluted in water and honey”.
30% dilution: high concentration, more difficult to find on the market, it is an immediate remedy for sore throats and respiratory tract conditions.
10% dilution: used as a supplement and usually also available in the pharmaceutical circuit. To drink or use for gargling, mouthwashes and against bad breath. In these cases, take 20 to 40 drops diluted in a glass of water, one to three times a day at any time (30 drops (1 ml) contain 100 mg of propolis).
Warnings: Supplements should not be considered as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet and must be used as part of a healthy lifestyle and must not exceed the recommended daily dose. The product, with a high alcohol content, must be kept out of reach of children and does not need to be stored in the refrigerator.
Its dark glass bottle protects the propolis from light.
Propolis has been the subject of some scientific research that has highlighted its many beneficial properties but each for its own area of origin, making it impossible to give a common definition of its composition.
Below is a summary, from reliable sources, of the main properties of propolis based on information available through PubMed, the free search engine of the National Library of Medicine, the largest medical library in the world that provides access to millions of citations of biomedical literature (in English):
Antimicrobial properties:
Propolis has been shown to possess antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activities, making it effective against a wide range of microorganisms.
It can inhibit the growth of bacteria, viruses and fungi, helping to protect the body from infections.
Anti-inflammatory properties:
Propolis can reduce inflammation, thanks to the presence of compounds such as flavonoids.
It can be useful in the treatment of inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and skin diseases.
Antioxidant Properties:
Propolis is rich in antioxidants, which protect cells from damage caused by free radicals, helping to prevent chronic diseases and slow the aging process.
Immunomodulatory Properties:
Propolis can strengthen the immune system, improving the body’s response to infections.
It can stimulate the production of immune cells and increase the activity of antibodies.
Healing Properties:
Propolis can promote wound healing, stimulating tissue regeneration.
It is important to note that although propolis is generally considered safe, some people may be allergic to it. Therefore, it is advisable to consult a doctor before using it, especially if you have allergies or pre-existing medical conditions.
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