An end to confusion in a market full of fraud

Buying honey in Iran has become a big challenge. You enter the supermarket, you see dozens of jars with attractive colors, all of which are written "100% natural", but when you open the door at home, all you feel is the disgusting sweet taste of industrial sugar and glucose.

This mistrust is your right. Unfortunately, profiteers have disrupted the market by artificially feeding bees (water and sugar) or worse, making artificial honey with starch and essential oils. But we have an unwritten but sacred rule in Chapar: "Honey should smell like a flower, not a factory."

Chapar collection honeys are the direct product of our apiaries in the pristine heights of Dilman, Qazvin and Sarchesheme village of Lahijan. There is no middleman here; The beehive is on the mountainside and the jar of honey is on your breakfast table. In this article, we want to tell the truth once and for all about the diagnosis of real honey and dispel internet myths.

Geography of honey; Why Dillman and Qazvin?

Honey is an extract of the soil and plants of a region. Honeybees fly to a limited radius, so the quality of honey depends exactly on the vegetation of that area. Why do we insist that Dilman and Qazvin honey is among the best in Iran?

Dillman: Gilan Natural Pharmacy

Dilman summer resort area in Siahkol heights is a habitat for rare medicinal plants due to its cold and mountainous climate.

Vegetation: When our bees fly in the plains of Dillman, they collect the nectar of plants such as mountain thyme, gorse, chamomile and wild oregano.
Result: The honey produced in this area has very low sucrose (harmful sugar) and instead is rich in minerals and medicinal properties. This honey is not just food, it is medicine.

Qazvin and Sarcheshme: dance of color and taste

Our apiaries in Qazvin and the village of Sarcheshme Lahijan produce honey with a complex aroma and a different color due to the variety of wild and garden flowers. The variety of flora in these areas makes real "forty-plant" honey produced with a balanced taste that is not too spicy to hit the throat and not too tasteless to feel sugary.

The Biggest Lies About Honey Diagnosis (Don't Believe It!)

You must have seen Instagram videos where they test honey with a match or a glass of water. Let's talk scientifically and throw away these myths.

Myth 1: Match and tissue test

They say that if honey is natural, a match dipped in it will light up or the back of a paper napkin will not get wet.

Truth: These tests only show the "moisture" level of the honey, not its naturalness. A thick fake honey cooked with sugar can also pass these tests!

Myth 2: Solubility test in cold water

They say that real honey dissolves slowly in cold water.

Truth: Yes, natural honey is hard to dissolve, but concentrated industrial glucose has exactly the same property. So this is not the way to diagnose.

The truth about sugaring: a sign of quality or fraud?

This is the most important part of the article. Most people think that honey that hardens and becomes sugary (grainy) is fake and contains sugar.

Scientific fact: Natural honey is a supersaturated solution of natural sugars. At low temperature (cold autumn and winter), an enzyme called "diastase" which exists only in living and natural honey, causes the sugar particles to stick together and the honey becomes cloudy and solid. This state is called ``stopping''.
Result: Honey that does not sugar in cold weather has two states: either it is completely artificial glucose, or it has been heated (boiled) so that its enzymes die and it remains clear. Chapar honeys are "raw" and may harden in the cold, which guarantees their health.

Therapeutic properties of Chapar honeys

Each honey has its own properties. At Chapar store, we have categorized honeys based on plant source and harvest season:

1. Spring honey (compounds) - pure relaxation

This honey is obtained from the blossoms of oranges and oranges in northern gardens in spring.

Color: Bright and transparent.
Properties: Rich in vitamin C, strong sedative, antispasmodic and the best option for those who have insomnia.

2. Summer honey (Dilman/Gun and Thyme) - energy bomb

This honey is a product of the highlands and has a warm character.

Color: Dark amber.
Properties: The strongest natural antibiotic for treating infections, repairing stomach and intestinal ulcers, strengthening the body's immune system against colds.

3. The magic combination of breakfast

Our special offer to start an energetic day:

One cup of Lahijan Chapar premium tea (stewed in 15 minutes) + one spoon Dilman natural honey. This combination takes the coldness of the tea and doubles the absorption of antioxidants.

Test sheet or trust the beekeeper?

We don't say "trust because we say so". We say "trust science".

Vital factors in the test sheet

The only 100% sure way to identify honey is a food laboratory. Chapar honeys are regularly tested to have the following factors:

Sucrose: must be below 5% (for our Dillman therapeutic honeys, this number is usually below 3%).
Proline: A protein that shows that honey is produced by bees and is plant-based.
Ratio of fructose to glucose: Indicates the quality of flower nectar.

What is raw honey?

Many commercial brands heat honey so that it becomes diluted and does not become sugary. But the heat above 40 degrees destroys all the useful enzymes and medicinal properties of honey.

Chapar's commitment: We do not heat honey. The honey you get is "raw honey"; Exactly as it came out of the hive. Alive, active and healing.

The story of our family

Chapar business is not an industrial business; It is a family heirloom. We and our children use this honey at our table. Therefore, we will never sell a product that harms the health of our family to our customers who are our second family.

Buying honey online requires trust and we appreciate your trust. For this reason, all Chapar honey products (whether Dillman honey, Qazvin or Sarcheshme honey) are sent with a money back guarantee.

If you receive the honey and you are not satisfied with its taste, aroma or quality, or if a reliable laboratory proves the opposite of our claim, we will respectfully return the product and refund your money.

Don't risk your health with artificial sugar.

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