A Functional Food: Anzer Honey

Abstract

Honey; It is a sweet product created by bees by collecting plant nectar and changing its content in their bodies, then taking its final form with maturation in the honeycomb. Apis mellifera, one of the insects of the genus Apis, known as honey bees, is responsible for producing most of the honey consumed worldwide. Since the bees use various plant nectars as raw materials, the variety of honey is very high, and technically, no honey is precisely the same as the other. It can be said that the most important reason for this is that honey is obtained from different plants by being exposed to different climatic conditions. Honey is a significant functional food that people have consumed since the hunter-gatherer periods due to its nutritional content and positive effects on health. Research has shown that beekeeping has been practiced in Anatolia since the Hittites. Flower honey produced in Anzer Plateau is one of the market's most popular and expensive honey. In this study, studies on Anzer honey, the first product with a geographical indication in Rize, where important honey producers are located in Turkey, the second largest honey producer in the world, will be compiled.