Honey becomes one of the most popular food decades ago. The food is usually known well as it has so many benefits once you consume it regularly. As it comes from the bees that can survive in so many countries, honey is available all around the world.
For so many years, people believe that honey contains so many nutritious foods. You can even find it as the ingredient to pour in some Arab-Indonesian fusion cuisine. Honey is sometimes also used in some Indonesian dishes wrapped in banana leaves in some of the Indonesian traditional food.
Not only for health but also to maintain women’s beauty as well. That’s no surprise that you can find some honey inside of some cosmetics in the market.
Speaking of honey, Indonesia has so many types of it, just like other countries that are good for your system immune. Let’s see some of them below!
1. Randu Honey
Randu honey becomes one of the types of honey in Indonesia that is so popular that has a fresh taste. It comes from the bees that live around the Randu or Kapok tree. Compared to other honey in Indonesia, it tastes a bit fresh that perfect to mix with you’re cup of hot tea.
Randu honey commonly has a soft texture with a clear color of brown but a bit yellow. At a glance, it looks like clear yellow water but soft and creamy once you touch it. The benefits of consuming this type of honey are preventing a sprue, keeping your immune system, healing from burns, and many more.
2. Forest Honey
Since Indonesia contains some provinces with large forests in Indonesia, that possible for the bees to live there. From their habitat, people find typical forest honey that has a thicker texture and darker color.
There are so many types of forest honey in Indonesia that come from a different Indonesian forests. You can see the Sumatran forest honey, Sumbawa forest honey, Jambi forest honey, and many more.
Just like another type of Indonesian honey, forest honey has so many benefits as well. It is capable to improve your health and immune system, improving your appetite, being good for skin health, and many more.
3. Longan Honey
Longan is a kind of fruit that has a sweet taste and chewy texture. That makes the bees that live around the longan tree produce a sweet taste of honey that has a similar taste to the fruit.
Longan honey commonly has a soft texture with the limited edition at Indonesia’s only harvest of longan seasons. So many benefits of it make people love to consume it regularly.
The research found that longan honey is capable to help the healing process of hepatitis, reduce some allergic reactions, and also for cosmetic materials.
4. Kaliandra Honey
Kaliandra honey is a type of honey in Indonesia that comes from the bees that live around the Kaliandra tree. The bees consume the Kaliandra flower that makes it has a sweet taste with higher glucose inside rather than fructose.
Kaliandra honey has a clear yellow color just like palm oil but has a thicker texture. Consuming it regularly will improve your health system and even capable to prevent insomnia.
5. Kelulut Honey
Kelulut is a typical Indonesian bee that produces so many beneficial honeys to improve your health. Kelulut honey has a bitter taste compared to other types of honey in Indonesia.
Kelulut honey is commonly useful for preventing some chronic illnesses such as cancer. Not only for cancer prevention, but it is also capable to reduce anti-aging for women’s beauty that appears on some local cosmetic brands in Indonesia. That’s makes this type of honey has an expensive price compared to other honey in Indonesia.
6. Rambutan Honey
Just like the Kelengkeng honey, Rambutan honey is a type of honey in Indonesia that produces from the bees that live around the Rambutan tree. It has a sweet taste, just like the Rambutan fruit with a chewy texture.
Rambutan honey is so popular to deal with some stomach-ace problems. If you get some allergic to the medicine, consuming this type of honey once you get stomach-ace will help you the most.
Rambutan honey is commonly useful for the diet, which can help you to gain weight. Other than that, it is also capable to keep your sleep well without insomnia. That will make you wake up brightly in the morning without any troubles.
7. Clover Honey
Clover honey becomes one of the types of honey in Indonesia that so popular lately. It comes from the bees that live around the Semanggi plants that spread in most tropical countries such as Indonesia.
Clover honey contains so much nutrition that is useful to improve your system immune. This type of honey is commonly used for medical treatment such as cold medicine, anti-allergic skin medicine for eczema, and many more.
8. Acacia Honey
Acacia honey is a type of honey in Indonesia that comes from the bee that lives around the acacia tree. It becomes one of the best honey in the world with so many benefits you can get by consuming regularly.
Acacia honey is well-known for having the highest nutrition of anti-oxidant that is useful for improving your system immune. Moreover, it has a natural anti-bacterial that is useful to prevent some chronic illnesses as it contains natural anti-biotics.
Acacia honey is commonly rare to find in Indonesia, which is not available every year. The reasons for deforestation in Indonesia make acacia tree becomes one of the causes that acacia honey becomes rare to found.
So, there are some types of honey in Indonesia that are useful for your health system immune, and beauty. Have you ever consumed one of them? Which one becomes your favorite?
