This fragrant honey is considered “liquid gold”, priced at half a million VND/liter

Once again, at the end of the year, from September to the end of December, people in the Ha Giang stone plateau are bustling with mint honey harvest season. Depending on the time, the hunt for this famous type of honey can last longer until January of the following year.

It’s called mint honey because this type of honey is extracted from honey bees. Mint trees grow on the Ha Giang rocky plateau. In some mountain forests in the Northwest provinces, mint honey can also be obtained. Mint is a wild plant with pink purple flowers that often grows in high mountains Meo Vac districts, Dong Van Yen Minh, Quan Ba, Ha Giang province and blooms from September to December of the lunar calendar.

Honey Mint bees are quite expensive. During the season, they are sold for about 450,000 – 500,000 VND/liter, double the price of common honeys such as longan honey, lychee honey, parrot honey…

Pure honey from Mint flowers have a beautiful natural lemon yellow color and a unique fragrance. When eating, diners will feel the cool and thick sweetness of this type of honey.

It is known that the color of mint honey also depends on the proportion of mint pollen in the honey. With each ratio of mint honey, the color will be different from light lemon yellow to dark lemon yellow.

Ms. Phuong Mai – a diner in Hanoi has known and enjoyed silver honey. Ha since many years. She said that mint honey has a high economic value and is popular with many people, so some people often imitate the product to sell for profit. To choose to buy pure mint honey, I think you need to pay attention to a few things such as color, aroma, taste…

Not only does it have an attractive color and a particularly delicious flavor, mint honey also Contains high nutritional content that is very good for health. They are also used as a medicine to nourish the body to treat respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases… Mint honey can be mixed with warm water, lemon juice or ginger water or soaked with other ingredients to make Used as a drink to help increase resistance and protect the body from disease.