JP3240650U - honey forming layers - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide honey stored in a single container so that a plurality of tastes can be enjoyed by keeping the aesthetic appearance by dividing the honey of a plurality of tastes into layers. . Kind Code: A1 The present invention provides honey contained in a container (20) by forming two or more layers (30a, 30b), wherein the honey is collected from a specific kind of flower nectar, and The honeys are composed of the honeys collected from different flower nectars, and a structure is adopted in which two or more kinds of the honeys are separated and accommodated in the layers by utilizing the difference in specific gravity caused by the different sugar content of the honeys. [Selection drawing] Fig. 1

Description

The present invention relates to the technique of collecting honey from honeybees, and more specifically, multiple types of honey collected by utilizing the habits of Western honeybees are arranged in multiple layers of two or more layers in a container by utilizing the difference in specific gravity. It concerns honey technology.

Honey, which has been loved all over the world since ancient times, has a high reputation as a health food, and is a food that is in demand from people of all ages, from children to the elderly. However, it cannot be said that a sufficient amount of honey collected from honeycombs can be secured to meet the demand, and it can be said that it is a valuable and expensive item. For this reason, there are many businesses that add starch syrup to increase the price and sell it at a low price. However, compared to pure honey, honey diluted with starch syrup is inferior in taste, aroma, and nutritional quality, and many consumers demand pure and high-quality honey.

In addition, the honey bees that collect honey to be provided to customers can be broadly classified into Japanese honey bees and Western honey bees. Japanese honeybees and Western honeybees have their own characteristics in their habits, especially Western honeybees have a swarming habit of collecting nectar from certain flowers that bloom at that time. can be collected. For example, a herd that collects nectar from acacia flowers will have acacia honey at that time, a herd that will collect nectar from rape blossoms will have rape blossom honey at that time, and a herd that will collect nectar from rose flowers will have nectar from rose flowers at that time. It is possible to collect a huge variety of flower honey, such as rose honey. However, the honey to be specified is determined by the bee, and there is a problem that it is not always possible to collect the honey that is aimed at, for example, when one wants to collect acacia honey.

In addition, depending on the type of pollen collected, each honey differs not only in taste and aroma, but also in properties such as color, sugar content, viscosity, and specific gravity. However, although there are products classified according to taste, type of flower, etc., there is no product that exerts a design effect by utilizing differences in color, sugar content, viscosity, specific gravity, and these properties. Therefore, there is a demand for a honey product that makes use of these differences in properties to make it more enjoyable.

Therefore, various technical proposals have been conventionally made. For example, there is disclosed a technique titled "a beekeeping method for collecting cabbage and collecting honey in a greenhouse" (see Patent Document 1). Specifically, the challenge is to "completely improve the concept of conventional beekeeping methods." A beekeeping method for collecting honey by cultivating cabbage in a greenhouse characterized by collecting honey, and in the beekeeping method, vegetable seeds are scattered on the cultivated ground and the upper surface is covered with a protective material such as vinyl. A process for keeping vegetables to be covered, a flowering process for promoting flowering by adjusting the temperature in the process, and a beekeeping process for arranging a beekeeping box for collecting honey when the vegetables bloom in a house made of vinyl or the like in the process. A beekeeping method for cultivating cabbage and collecting honey in a vinyl greenhouse, comprising a step and a honey collecting step of collecting honey from the beekeeping box if the honey is collected in the above step, taking it outside and collecting honey from the beekeeping box. provided.” However, the technique described in Patent Document 1 is carried out in vinyl cultivation, and it can be said that the solution is similar in that honeybees can collect nectar from a specific flower at a certain time. It is a method of collecting honey specialized for cabbage cultivation, and has a different purpose from the present invention, which proposes various ways of enjoying honey.

Also, a technique entitled "honey production method, honey production method, and honey" is disclosed (see Patent Document 2). Specifically, the problem is "to provide a method for stably producing modified honey containing specific functional ingredients and active ingredients." and a solution containing sugar, and honey produced by the method, wherein the solution containing the specific functional ingredient is a plant juice , and/or sap and/or plant extract, the solution containing sugar is honey, and the sugar concentration of the mixed solution is 15 to 80 Brix%. ing. However, although it can be said that the honey of the technology described in Patent Document 2 is excellent, feeding a mixed solution with a sugar-containing solution is a solution. On the other hand, the honey obtained from plants in nature is different from the present invention in which a plurality of tastes of honey can be enjoyed in one container depending on the sugar content.

In addition, a technique entitled "Gnetum composition containing apiculture products" is also disclosed (see Patent Document 3). Specifically, it provides "a composition containing gnetum, a processed product thereof, or an extract thereof having excellent antioxidant activity. To provide an agent, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical composition. and antioxidants, PPARα and/or PPARβ/δ activators, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the composition.” . However, although the technology described in Patent Document 3 is a beekeeping product like the present invention, it is intended for foods, cosmetics, pharmaceutical compositions, etc., and is aimed at products that enjoy honey. The purpose itself is different.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-195130 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-280294 JP 2013-082701

To provide honey which has a high design property by dividing honey of a plurality of tastes into layers and is housed so that a plurality of tastes can be enjoyed in one container.

The present invention provides honey that is stored in a container by forming two or more layers, wherein the honey is collected from the nectar of a specific type of flower and the honey collected from the nectar of a different type of flower. It is composed of honey, and adopts a configuration in which two or more types of honey are separated and accommodated in the layers by utilizing the difference in specific gravity caused by the different sugar content of the honey.

A configuration may also be adopted in which the bees are honey collected from pollen of a specific flower in the house.

In addition, the present invention may employ a configuration in which the honey is honey that utilizes the characteristics of a colony of Western bees that collects nectar from the pollen of the same flower.

In addition, according to the present invention, the honey-containing container may be made of transparent glass and resin.

According to the layered honey according to the present invention, since a plurality of honeys divided into layers are contained in the same container, it is possible to take out one type of honey or take out a blended state according to preference. Exhibits an excellent effect that there is.

Moreover, according to the honey forming a layer according to the present invention, the layered honey exhibits an excellent effect that it has a high design property and a beautiful appearance.

In addition, according to the honey that forms the layer according to the present invention, the honey that has been mixed due to shaking when carrying the container or falling, etc., will become a beautiful layer as each component changes over time. It exhibits an excellent effect of creating.

In addition, according to the honey that forms the layer according to the present invention, when using honey collected using the habit of a colony of Western bees that collects only one type of flower nectar at that time, each type It exhibits an excellent effect that it is possible to collect honey with a stable sugar content.

In addition, in the honey that forms the layer according to the present invention, when collecting honey from a specific flower in a greenhouse, it is said that the honey of a specific flower can be stably supplied in the same way as when using the habits of Western bees. Excellent effect. In addition, when beekeeping is carried out using greenhouses, different flowers are planted in each greenhouse, and different bee swarms are made to collect nectar from each flower. harvesting is possible.

It is a basic composition explanatory perspective view and a front view explaining the basic composition of the honey which forms the layer which concerns on this invention. FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of collecting state showing an example of collecting honey from the upper part of the honey layer forming the layer according to the present invention and the mixed part of the upper and lower parts; FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a collection state step by step showing a method of collecting honey from the lower portion of the honey layer forming the layer according to the present invention; FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of collecting honey by using the honey bee swarm habit of forming a layer according to the present invention; FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a state of beekeeping using a house of honey 1 forming a layer according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an implementation state showing a state of a layer of honey forming a layer according to the present invention;

The layer-forming honey according to the present invention is honey that forms two or more layers and is stored in a container, and the honey is the honey collected from the nectar of a specific kind of flower, or the honey that is different from this. It is composed of the honey collected from the nectar of flowers, and is separated into the layers for each type by utilizing the characteristic that it is difficult to mix due to the different properties such as sugar content, specific gravity, and viscosity of two or more types of honey. The biggest feature is that it was accommodated as Each configuration will be described below with reference to the drawings. However, the shape and configuration are not limited to those described in the drawings, and can be changed within the range where the effect exhibited as the creation of the technical idea of the present invention can be obtained.

FIG. 1 is a basic configuration explanatory perspective view and a front view for explaining the basic configuration of honey 1 forming a layer according to the present invention, and as shown in FIG. Honey is stored in one container 20 so as to be divided into layers 10 for each type and sealed with a lid 21 by utilizing the characteristic that honey is difficult to mix due to different properties such as different sugar contents, viscosities, and specific gravities. It shows how it is. FIG. 1(b) is a basic configuration explanatory front view for explaining the basic configuration of honey forming a layer. There may be any number of layers 10 of honey 30 as long as there are a plurality of types.

The layered honey 1 is a honey 30 that forms two or more layers 10 and is accommodated in a container 20, wherein the honey 30 is the honey 30a collected from the nectar of a specific kind of flower, and The honey 30b is composed of the honey 30b collected from different flower nectars, and two or more types of the honey 30 have different properties such as a sugar content of 50, viscosity, and specific gravity of 60. Utilizing the characteristic that it is difficult to mix, the type It is housed separately in each layer 10 .

In the present invention, the layer 10 is difficult to mix due to the difference in properties such as sugar content 50, viscosity, specific gravity 60, etc., honey 30 collected from a specific type of flower nectar and honey collected from a different flower nectar. It is a layer 10 made of two or more types of honey 30 that utilizes the characteristics of honey.

Table 1 is a sugar content comparison table showing an example showing that the specific gravity 60 increases in proportion to the sugar content 50 depending on the type of flower of the honey 1 forming the layer according to the present invention. The sugar content shown in Table 1 is the soluble solid content, and the reading of the refractometer for sugar is displayed according to the quality labeling standards based on the Japanese Agricultural Standards (JAS), and the reading is the Brix value. .

As shown in Table 1, it can be seen that the higher the sugar content 50, the higher the specific gravity 60, and based on this, it can be seen that the layer 10 is formed by storing honey 30 with different sugar content 50 in a plurality of containers 20. For example, when different types of honey 30 are divided into two layers due to a difference in specific gravity of 60 and stored in the container 20, when the container 20 is shaken up and down, the two types of honey 30 appear to be mixed. As time passes, the two types of honey 30 form layers 10 above and below and separate clearly due to the specific gravity 60 as before. As for the degree of separation, a combination with clear color shading is good. For example, if "wisteria" and "chestnut" are combined from Table 1, "wisteria", which has a lighter color and a higher specific gravity, is placed on the lower side. It can be a layered honey with darker color and lower specific gravity "chestnut" placed on top. That is, by combining light-colored honey and dark-colored honey with different specific gravities, it is possible to clearly express the difference in shade.

Container 20 is a container for containing a plurality of honeys 30 that make up layer 10 . It can be said that this container 20 is preferably made of a transparent material such as glass 70 or resin 80 that allows the layer 10 of honey 30 to be seen from the outside. In the drawings, a substantially cubic shape with an opening 22 provided at the top is shown, but the shape is not limited to this. It is desirable to have a container in which the different layers 10 can be clearly distinguished by adopting an elongated shape.

Lid 21 is a lid body for closing opening 22 of container 20 in order to hermetically seal honey 30 .

Opening 22 is an opening for removing honey 30 from container 20 .

The take-out rod 23 is a member that catches the honey 30 contained in the container 20 by hooking it on a step. The take-out stick 23 is a stick for taking out the honey 30 in the container 20 through the opening 22 . It should be noted that the member is not limited to the rod-shaped member shown in the drawings, and may be a spoon-shaped member.

The honey 30 is honey 30 having a high sugar content of 60, which is obtained by bringing pollen of flowers collected by bees 90 back to the nest 100 and maturing it. In addition, in this invention, it is a term used as a general term including honey 30a and honey 30b. According to the standards of the Japan Beekeeping Association, honey with a sugar content of 78 degrees or higher is recognized as natural honey.

Honey 30a refers to honey 30a derived from a particular type of flower nectar 40a. The nectar 40a of the flower has a sugar content of 50 of only about 10 degrees when the bee 90 inhales it. However, by bringing it back to the nest 100 and spitting it out for ripening, the sugar content of 50 will be 70 to 80 degrees. The honey 30a has a higher sugar content of 50.

Honey 30b is honey 30b derived from flower nectar 40b other than the specific kind of flower nectar 40a. Flower nectar 40b other than the specific kind of flower nectar 40a has a sugar content of 50 of only about 10 degrees when the bee 90 inhales it into its body. However, by bringing it back to the nest 100 and spitting it out for ripening, the sugar content of 50 will be 70 to 80 degrees. The honey 30b with an increased sugar content of 50 is obtained.

The specific kind of flower nectar 40a is, for example, nectar collected by the bee 90 from an acacia flower and brought back to the nest 100 and exhaled. At this point, the sugar content of the flower nectar is only 50, and its sugar content is around 10 degrees.

If the specific flower nectar 40a is an acacia flower, the nectar 40b of a flower other than the specific kind of flower nectar 40a is the nectar of a flower other than the acacia flower. Specifically, rose flowers and chestnut flowers other than acacia are used.

The sugar content of 50 is the sugar content of honey 30, and the sugar content of flower pollen itself is not so high. Therefore, the sugar content of 50 indicates the sugar content of 50 after ripening. In addition, the sugar content 50 after ripening differs depending on the pollen of the flowers to be collected.

The specific gravity 60 is a mass ratio of a substance having the same volume as a reference substance, and in the case of a liquid, it is a comparative value with water as a reference. Assuming that the specific gravity of water is 1, the specific gravity of general honey is approximately 1.4. Moreover, between the honey 30a of a specific flower type collected by the bee 90 and the honey 30b of a different specific flower type, a difference in the specific gravity 60 is generated due to the difference in the properties of the honey 30 for each type. The present invention utilizes this specific gravity difference to store each honey 30 in the container 20 so as to form a certain layer 10, so that one type of desired specific honey 30 can be taken out, or a plurality of desired honeys can be collected. 30 can be taken out in a mixed state. If the difference in specific gravity 60 is large, the layer 10 that is relatively firmly separated can be produced, and if the difference in specific gravity 60 is small, the layer 10 cannot be separated firmly. Somewhat mixed parts are formed in the vicinity of the boundary. At the boundary between the honey 30a and the honey 30b, a force (interfacial tension) acts to make the boundary surface as small as possible and stabilize it. In the natural state, the honey 30a and the honey 30b are different in this interfacial tension, so the honey 30a and the honey 30b are gathered together, and the honey 30b is gathered together to minimize the area of the interface. It is thought that layers 10 are formed above and below, with the side having a larger specific gravity on the lower side and the side with a smaller specific gravity on the upper side.

The glass 70 generally has a transmittance of 92% or more, and by using the glass 70, the honey 30 is in the form of a layer 10, and the unique color difference of the honey 30 can be clearly sensed visually. Because it is possible to produce it as an appearance beauty. It is one of the most suitable transparent materials for the container 20 containing the layered honey 1 according to the present invention.

The resin 80, like the glass 70, is one of the transparent materials of the container 20 containing the layered honey 1 in the present invention. This is because it is preferable to use a transparent material in order to produce a state in which the honey 30 forms the layer 10 as a beautiful appearance. As a resin with particularly excellent transparency, PC (polycarbonate: polycarbonate (transmittance 89%) is preferable. )), PET (polyethylene terephthalate: PET (transmittance of 90%)), PVC (polyvinyl chloride: PVC (transmittance of 82%)), and PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate: acrylic (transmittance of 93%), hereinafter referred to as “PMMA ” is expressed as “acrylic”). The above four resins are examples of resins having a transmittance of more than 82%, and it can be said that acrylic, which has a transmittance of 93%, is particularly effective as a material.

The bees 90 are general bees that collect nectar from flowers that are raw materials for the honey 30, and include the Japanese bees and the Western bees 91.

Western bees 91 are bees used for beekeeping all over the world among bees 90, and most of the honey sold in the market in Japan is produced by beekeeping of Western bees. Western honey bee 91 has a yellowish body overall, is slightly larger than Japanese honey bee, and has a more aggressive character than Japanese honey bee. In addition, although they are susceptible to disease and require time and effort to raise them, they have habits suitable for beekeeping, as they rarely escape from their hives. Especially, there is a group characteristic that collects nectar from the same flower at the same time. In addition, it collects honey many times a year, and is characterized by its high ability to collect honey. In addition, by using the habits of the swarm of Western bees 91 that collect nectar from the same flowers that bloom in each season, it is possible to collect nectar from the same kind of flowers in one year. It is possible to stably collect honey 30 having a sugar content of 50 for each type.

The hive 100 is a beekeeping hive 100 artificially made so that the bees 90 can easily build a nest. Most of them have a square shape like a jubako box with open top and bottom. It is preferable to prepare the environment for the bees 90 by providing a sunshade or the like depending on where it is attached or placed.

In order to produce honey 30 of stable quality, the house 101 plants the same kind of plants in the house and makes the bees 90 collect the nectar for the purpose of collecting the nectar of the same flower in the swarm. This area is for beekeeping.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view of the collecting state showing an example of collecting honey 30 in the upper part of the layer 10 of the honey 1 forming the layer according to the present invention and the mixed part of the upper and lower parts, FIG. 1 shows how the honey 30a contained in the upper part of the honey 30 formed into the layer 10 in the container 20 is being taken out using the take-out rod 23. FIG. In FIG. 2(b), the honey 30 near the boundary between the honey 30a contained in the upper part of the honey 30 formed into the layer 10 in the container and the honey 30b contained in the lower part was taken out and mixed using the stick 23. It shows how the honey 30 in the state is taken out.

3A and 3B are explanatory diagrams showing the collection state step by step of the extraction method for collecting the honey 30b from the lower part of the layer 10 of the honey 1 forming the layer according to the present invention, and FIG. Fig. 3(b) shows a state in which the honey 30b stored in the lower part is turned upside down so that the honey 30b is placed on the opening 22 side, and the upper layer and the lower layer are yet to be exchanged. 3(c) shows a state in which the honey 30b in which the container 20 is turned upside down is replaced with the upper layer and the lower layer over time, and FIG. 3 shows the relationship between the upper layer and the lower layer when the container 20 is returned to its original state, and FIG. 3(e) shows how the honey 30b is taken out with the take-out rod 23 when it is still on the opening side due to its viscosity. showing. Although not shown in the drawings, the honey 30a returns to the upper layer and the honey 30b returns to the lower layer over time.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the case where the honey 1 forming the layer according to the present invention is collected by using the colony habits of the European honey bee 91 . FIG. 4(a1) shows a state in which Western bees 91 collect and collect nectar 40a of a specific kind of flower all at once, and FIG. 91 is brought back to the hive 100, FIG. 4(a3) shows how the honey 30a brought back to the hive 100 and aged is collected in the container 20, and FIG. Fig. 4(b2) shows how a western bee 91 collects nectar 40b from flowers other than 40a, and Fig. 4(b2) shows that the nectar 40b from flowers other than the nectar 40a of a specific kind of flowers is brought back to the hive 100 by the western bee 91. FIG. 4(b3) shows how the honey 30b brought back to the hive 100 and aged is collected in the container 20, and FIG. This shows how the honey 30 forms two layers.

FIG. 5 shows the state of beekeeping using a house of honey 1 forming a layer according to the present invention, and FIG. Fig. 5(a2) shows how honey 30a aged in the hive 100 is stored in the container 20, and Fig. 5(b1) A hive box 100 is installed in a house 101 in which plants other than plants are planted, and a bee 90 collects nectar from flowers and brings it back to the hive box 100. FIG. FIG. 5(c) shows how honey 30a and honey 30b are accommodated in the same container 20 to form two layers of honey 30. FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing the state of the layer 10 of the honey 1 forming the layer according to the present invention, and FIG. Honey 30a and honey 30b obtained by maturing honey collected by bees from acacia flowers in a hive 100 are placed in the same container in the same amount (50 ml) and stirred immediately after (about 10 minutes). FIG. 6B shows the state after 72 hours have passed. In addition, FIG. 6(c) shows honey 30a obtained by aging honey collected from acacia flowers by bees in the hive 100, and honey 30b obtained by aging honey collected by bees from rose flowers in the hive 100. It shows a state accommodated in containers of different shapes. As shown in FIG. 6, it can be seen that honey 30a and honey 30b are separated into two layers. I can say. The boundary part is slightly turbid, but this is considered to be a phenomenon caused by the fact that the intermolecular forces of the water (approximately 20%) contained in the honey 30a and the honey 30b are equal.

All substances and molecules have forces (intermolecular forces) that attract each other, but there is a difference in the intermolecular forces between the honey 30a and the honey 30b, and the force that binds the molecules of the honey 30a and honey 30b together. Due to this relationship, the molecules at the interface between honey 30a and honey 30b are strongly pulled from their fellow molecules inside (in the case of honey 30a, the molecules of honey 30a), and the molecules at the interface always try to go inside. As a result, the interface has the smallest surface area (the fewest number of molecules), that is, it is horizontally separated without mixing. Although not particularly shown in the drawings, similar results were obtained in combination with nectar from other flowers.

That is, a force (interfacial tension) acts on the boundary formed between the honey 30a and the honey 30b to make the boundary surface as small as possible and stabilize it. In the natural state, the honey 30a and the honey 30b are different in this interfacial tension, so the honey 30a and the honey 30b are gathered together, and the honey 30b is gathered together to minimize the area of the interface. It is thought that layers 10 are formed on the top and bottom, with the side having a larger specific gravity on the lower side and the side with a smaller specific gravity on the upper side. However, there is a combination of honey 30a and honey 30b, which are similar in color, in which such a boundary surface does not appear clearly.
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According to the layered honey according to the present invention, honey, which is a popular health food, can be mixed in a single bottle due to the difference in specific gravity, making it possible to enjoy various tastes. Since it can be enjoyed in many ways, it can be expected that there will be a lot of demand for its design effect, and it can be said that it has high industrial applicability.

1 Layer-forming honey 10 Layers 20 Container 21 Lid 22 Opening 23 Dispensing rod 30 Honey 30a Honey 30b Honey 40a Certain types of flower nectar 40b Flower nectar other than certain types of flower nectar 50 Sugar content 60 Specific gravity 70 Glass 80 Resin 90 Bees 91 Western Bees 100 Hives 101 Houses

Claims (4)

Honey (30) contained in a container (20) forming two or more layers (10),
The honey is composed of honey (30a) derived from a specific type of flower nectar (40a) and honey (30b) derived from a different flower nectar (40b) other than a specific type of flower nectar,
A layer characterized by being separated and stored in the layer (10) for each type using the sugar content (50) and the specific gravity (60) of the different components of the honey (30) of two or more types. honey (1). Layering honey (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that said bees (30) are honey (30) collected from the pollen of a particular flower in the house (101). Forming a layer according to claim 1, characterized in that said honey (30) is a honey (30) that exploits the properties of a colony of Western bees (91) that collect nectar from the pollen of the same flower. Honey (1). The layer-forming honey according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the container (20) for storing the honey (30) is made of transparent glass (70) or resin (80) material. (1).

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