Bayburt Honey Registered

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Traditionally produced natural honey in Turkey’s northeastern Bayburt province has been certified with a geographical indication, marking the first product in the Black Sea city.

The Bayburt honey, which was proven to have a unique aroma and nutritional values, differs from honeys produced in other regions, according to Selçuk Coşkun, an academic from Bayburt University.

Coşkun said that Bayburt honey was subject to an analysis with its brightness, color, fluidity and burning sensation that it left in the throat when tasted.

An application was made by Bayburt University to the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office for geographical indication upon detecting some specific differences.

Eventually, Bayburt honey was registered as a result of the center’s reviews which lasted for a year.

“Bayburt geography consists of organic soils compared to other regions, so the flora in this geography is very diverse. These features also make important contributions to honey making,” Coşkun added.

More than 100 kinds of honey are produced in the Anatolian geography, which has three different climates and hosts different vegetation.

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An investigation of Turkish honeys: Their physico-chemical properties, antioxidant capacities and phenolic profiles in Food Chemistry 180 · August 2015

This study investigated some physico-chemical and biochemical characteristics of different honey types belonging to Turkish flora. Sixty-two honey samples were examined on the basis of pollen analyses, including 11 unifloral honeys (chestnut, heather, chaste tree, rhododendron, common eryngo, lavender, Jerusalem tea, astragalus, clover and acacia), two different honeydew honeys (lime and oak), and 7 different multifloral honeys. Electrical conductivity, moisture, Hunter color values, HMF, proline, diastase number, and sugar analyses of the honey samples were assessed for chemical characterization. Some phenolic components were analyzed by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) to determine honeys' phenolic profiles. Total phenolic compounds, total flavonoids, ferric reducing antioxidant capacity (FRAP) and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picryhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging activity were measured as antioxidant determinants. The study results confirm that physico-chemical and biological characteristics of honeys are closely related to their floral sources, and that dark-colored honeys such as oak, chestnut and heather, have a high therapeutic potential.

DOI:10.9775/kvfd.2017.18262Corpus ID: 53615956

Melissopalynological analysis for geographical marking of Kars honey [Kars balının coğrafi İşaretlemesi İçin melissopalinolojik analiz]

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Ömür Gençay Çelemli, Çiǧdem Özenirler, +2 authors Kadriye Sorkun
Published 2017
Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi


In this research, the melissopalynological analysis of honey samples collected from Kars city located in the East Anatolian Region of Turkey was conducted for geographical marking. Within this context, melissopalynological analyses of 100 honey samples determined by sampling method were collected from eight districts of Kars in Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey were done, to determine the nectarous source plants of Kars honey. As a result of melisopalynological analyses carried out in 100 honey samples; pollens of the taxa belonging to Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Berberidaceae, Betulaceae, Brassicaceae, Boraginaceae, Campanulaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Cistaceae, Cyperaceae, Dipsacaceae, Ericaceae, Fabaceae, Iridaceae, Lamiaceae, Liliaceae, Malvaceae, Onagraceae, Papaveraceae, Plantaginaceae, Poaceae, Polygonaceae, Ranunculaceae, Rhamnaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Salicaceae and Scrophulariaceae families were detected at different rates. Almost in all of the honey samples, Lotus corniculatus (in 99 samples), Onobrychis radiata (in 99 samples), Trifolium nigrescens (in 88 samples) from Fabaceae family and pollens of Echium vulgaris (81 samples) and Myosotis lithoospermifolia (15 samples) taxa from the Boraginaceae family, were found in honey samples. Onobrychis radiata pollen was the most intensely observed one among these samples (in dominant, secondary, minor, trace amounts). The total number of pollens (TPN-10) in 10 grams of honey were also detected during the melissopalynological analyses. TPN-10 values minimum: 226, maximum: 481157 and mean: 31678 were detected and the pollen abundance of the honeys are classified as good category. Kars is an important province for beekeeping with floral variety. As a result of this study, the first step of the geographical marking studies of Kars’ honey was completed. 

Sidebar for the curious
Like their close relatives, aphids, some scale insects secrete a sweet substance called “honeydew” full of the excess sugars of the sap they consume (in fact, some ants “farm” aphids for this substance and some historians think honeydew is actually the “manna” described in the Bible). The scale insect Marchalina hellenica is native to the Mediterranean and mostly lives on Turkish pines (Pinus brutia). It produces honeydew in significant quantities.

Pine honey Turkish: çam balı is a type of honeydew honey.  It is a sweet and spicy honey, with some woody notes, a resinous fragrance and dark amber color. It is a common breakfast dish in Turkey, where it is drizzled over yoghurt and eaten with bread.

Pine honey is an unusual honey because it is not produced entirely by honey bees . It is produced by bees that collect honeydew (sugary secretions) from a scale insect species called Marchalina hellenica, which lives on the sap of certain pine trees. The marchalina hellenica can be found on the Turkish Pine (Pinus brutia), as well as the Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis), Austrian Pine (Pinus nigra), Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Stone Pine (Pinus pinea).

Pine honey is produced in eastern Mediterranean Pinus brutia forests. Turkey produces 92% of the world’s pine honey. Muğla Province accounts for 80% of Turkish pine honey production.

Pine honey is insect poop, that has been eaten and regurgitated by another insect. And it’s quite delightful on toast. 

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 Turkish Mad Honey ,The dark, reddish, “mad honey,” known as deli bal in Turkey Black sea , contains an ingredient from rhododendron nectar called grayanotoxin — a natural neurotoxin that, even in small quantities, brings on light-headedness and sometimes, hallucinations. The legendary medicinal honey from Turkey’s Black Sea region is now accessible to everyone.We are selling Our Honey with Lab-tested grayanotoxin levels for proper dosage. is Mad Honey Legal Mad honey is legal you can also buy it online in some cases.


Anzer Honey 

Rize’s İkizdere in Turkey Ballıköy Anza Springs’ in manufactured and having a partner does not have precedents wild flowers covering flora in the world, made in research 450-500 varieties in flowers, 80-90 one of them endemic flowers alone Anzor Ballıköy are also trained and The world-famous Anzer Ballıköyü Anzer flower honey is the healing of honey from flowers and bees.

Honey production in Anzer Plateau With the first week of June, taking the first step to spring and greenery with snowdrops in partially snowy regions, Anzer takes its amazing beauty in June and completes it in July and completes it in August. Depending on the climatic conditions in the Anzer Plateau, honeys are taken from the hives in the first or second week of August, called soaking (harvesting).

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