At cookingIn the kitchen, buckwheat honey from France is the perfect ingredient for a soft, spicy, low-sugar gingerbread to accompany foie gras. As for pastries, Breton apple scones can also be made with buckwheat honey, as can traditional Breton far, which you can revisit with this honey. It can also be used to glaze certain meats: with this honey, your recipes will be unique and distinctive. Buckwheat honey can also be used as a marinade, bringing out the flavor of meat dishes.

Buckwheat is a melliferous plant. It is often associated with a seed used in flour. In reality, it’s a plant native to Asia whose cultivation in France was on the verge of extinction. This small plant, whose leaves resemble inverted hearts, flowers in several stages. This makes harvesting the nectar a tricky business, as does that of its fruit, the achene.

The benefits of buckwheat honey from France :

Buckwheat is said to be a prebiotic food that stimulates the growth of our good intestinal bacteria, thus aiding digestion. It is rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals such as copper, magnesium, phosphorus and other substances, details of which are available from parapharmacies.

Buckwheat honey has many properties: It is reputed to help with healing but above all as a regenerating of cells. This is said to strongly promote healing. It is reputed to be rich in mineral salts and trace elements.

The taste and smell of buckwheat honey:

For lovers of strong honeys! Its characteristic smell is strongly reminiscent of manure. Nevertheless, its taste is not unpleasant. It’s reminiscent of buckwheat. Despite its acidity, this honey keeps perfectly well. Its crystallization is fine, even creamy! And that’s just what you need!

Did you know?

Buckwheat is considered a green manure. In the vegetable garden, it is perfect for preparing the soil, as it is considered a cleaning plant that limits the invasion of chafer larvae, for example. Le comptoir du miel carries out laboratory analysis of most of its honeys.