FAQ – Cosmo 100% Pure Honey

1. What are the unique features of Cosmo 100% Pure Taiwanese honey?
Taiwan is the world’s most ideal location for bee-farming. The Tropic of Cancer gives Alishan, a mountain situated in central Taiwan, its subtropical climate with a rich diversity of nectariferous plants. As an island surrounded by ocean, constant sea breezes from the southwest also help nectar secretion. In addition, a multitude of nectariferous plants give Taiwanese honey its unique, rich and distinctive taste. Taiwan’s rich landscape, which includes plains, hills and high mountains, provide a home for a rich diversity of subtropical nectariferous plants. Different from honey imported from abroad, which mainly originate from nectariferous plants, honey in Taiwan is mostly fruit honey, which provides a refreshing taste! Honey collected from a wide variety of nectariferous plants makes Taiwanese honey a highly-nutritious food that contains rich botanic nutrients.
The honey product is obtained by converting and processing nectar or blight by bees and stored in honeycombs to form feeding cells of the hive population. Honey has therapeutic properties due to complex vitamins minerals, protein and carbohydrate quality. Honey is completely assimilated by the body due to nutrient composition has high nutritional value. Honey has been used for thousands of years in diseases and treatments.

2. What is so special about Cosmo honey? How is it different from other brand’s honey?
Cosmo Pure Honey is manufactured different from traditional method. Our manufacturing processes focuses on both quality control and food safety. The manufacturing processes begin with inspection on the source and location of bee farming to ensure that the bee farmers subscribe to healthy and sustainable bee farming. Each batch of honey collected from the bee farm is then tested for heavy metal contamination, chemicals and pesticides using the most advanced equipment. The inspected honey are then manufactured using the most advanced automated production equipment in a HACCP/ISO22000 food facilities. The Cosmo brand of pure honey has satisfied criteria in all aspects of sanitation, safety, and purity.
(a) The Safety monitor and control which include Passing inspection for 202 types of pesticide residue, Passing inspection for three types of heavy metal residue, Passing inspection for nine types of antibiotics, as well as the German stable isotope inspection.
(b) The Purity monitor and control which include Passing the Taiwan CNS standard, Passing the Mainland China TLC standard, SM-R standard, C4 standard, the Pollen particle inspection, and the Amylase inspection.

3. What beneficial effects does Cosmo pure honey have on human body?
Firstly, Cosmo pure honey is the most natural energy-boosting supplement. It contains natural glucose, the sole source of energy for cellular activities and cranial nerves. Unlike rice, noodles, and other starchy foods (disaccharide), which require metabolism, all glucose contained in pure honey is reduced sugar (monosaccharide), which can provide energy directly without causing obesity due to sugar deposits.
Secondly, Cosmo pure honey contains multiple natural nutrients that can help growth and improve anemia. The pure honey contains over 10 types of amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes, all of which are active and in their natural form, as a natural food for health preservation and life prolongation.
Thirdly, Cosmo pure honey has effective antibacterial (anti-sepsis), anti-inflammation and tissue regeneration effects. This is because the Glucoamylase found in honey can release hydrogen peroxide. Laboratory findings show that hydrogen peroxide can inhibit bacterial growth and reproduction, as well as promote vascular and connective tissue regeneration and repair injured areas. Honey’s antibacterial and anti-sepsis effects can be shown by its long storage life at room temperature. In addition, the minerals found in pure honey are composed of highly-permeable potassium ions, which can help to close surface skin and inhibit bacterial growth. This is why pure honey’s antibacterial and tissue regeneration effects can be seen by applying honey to mouth sores

for quick healing. Although New Zealand’s Maruka honey claims that it’s enzymes can help preserve stomach health, all high quality and pure honey possesses such a beneficial effect, not just Maruka honey. This is because such a beneficial effect is mainly due to the presence of hydrogen peroxide and potassium ion found in honey.
Fourthly, Cosmo pure honey is not only good for liver protection as it can promote liver cell regeneration, inhibit fatty liver formation, and neutralize the effects of alcohol; but also it can help relieve menstrual pain because the pure honey is rich in minerals such as magnesium and potassium. Research has shown that potassium is a crucial mineral for blood coagulation and can help one to relax, suppress pain, prevent infections and reduce the amount of menstrual bleeding while magnesium is found to have a calming effect on cranial nerves and stress.

4. What are the Nourishing action and nutritional benefits of honey?
With high energy value, honey is recommended in cases of anorexia especially in children and infants, deep exhaustion (especially from the states of convalescence), fatigue, physical and mental fatigue. Honey is used in correcting nutritional deficiencies responsible for the appearance of growth disorders, brittle bones and teeth. Honey is the fastest and strongest known natural energizing. Substances they contain are easily assimilated by the body that gets the honey and minerals, vitamins and enzymes. Also, honey is a powerful natural anti-infective, acting on major systems and appliances in the body, the digestive tract and airways up to the skin and mucous membranes. It is a strong stimulant of digestion and metabolism, promotes intestinal transit, helping to eliminate toxins from the body promptly. Finally the honey is helpful in maintaining balance endocrine glands help regulate the body's main activity producing hormones. Honey an excellent energizing a combination of quality carbohydrates and certain amounts of vitamins, enzymes, minerals, antioxidants, anti-microbial. She participates in digestion, a better, helps with the absorption of other elements (e.g. calcium). After absorption into the blood and body, bearing the effects of other remedies, along with what is given, they quickly transported to their target and amplify their actions.

The therapeutic properties of honey include:

(a) antimicrobial;

(b) insomnia;

(d) removes vomiting;

(e) detoxifying the liver and kidneys;

(f) combat iron deficiency anemia.

5. How Cosmo natural pure honey be used to treat cold symptoms?
We can use pure honey lemon drinks to treat cold symptoms. This is because lemon is rich in vitamin C while honey can repair damaged tissues in the respiratory track and throat area caused by a cold.

6. How Cosmo natural pure honey can be used with milk to make the most ideal breakfast choice?
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Milk’s rich calcium and protein content is extremely beneficial for growth and development, especially for kids. However, drinking milk alone cannot provide the body with sufficient energy since milk does not contain many calories. The natural glucose and monosaccharide in honey are just enough to make up for the milk’s insufficiencies. Furthermore, the magnesium in honey is also a perfect partner for milk’s calcium since it can help calcium absorption. Honey’s glucose can rapidly provide cranial nerves with the energy required to increase learning ability and work efficiency. Milk with honey is modern people’s best, most convenient, and fastest nutritious breakfast drink. Even if you are running late and don’t have time for breakfast, at least have a glass of milk with honey.

7. How do we identify and qualify the honey purity level?

Video from XINMSN about the physical property of pure honey

July 11th, 2013 TV show, Counter Fake (识货衙门)

The honey quality and purity can be inspected through a few simple methods:
(a) Flow Test - Tilt the honey bottle up-side-down to see how it flows.
(i) Pure honey - Has a thick flow that will not break immediately and will form a honey droplet after it breaks off.
(ii) Non Pure honey - Breaks off immediately.
(b) Temperature Test - boil the honey.
(i) Pure honey - Bubbles all over the surface with a thick foam.
(ii) Fake honey - Has a thin layer of foam.
(c) Water Test - Dilute the pure honey with water- add pure honey into a bottle that is around 80% full with water. Shake vigorously, allow to settle, and observe.
(i) Pure honey has thick and dense foam on top that lasts for a long time, in addition, the appearance is smudgy (honey that contains other components such as pollen particles and enzymes)
(ii) Fake honey has few bubbles that disappear quickly and the appearance is clear (able to see finger prints on the other side of the bottle)
(d) Crystallized Test - Although honey crystals cannot serve as a basis to determine the purity of honey, the shape of honey crystals can be used to determine whether the honey is pure or not.

(i) Pure honey crystals - Lard-like, thick texture that melts immediately when placed in the palm of the hand.
(ii) Non Pure honey crystals Large, sandy crystal particles that display irregular tree-like shapes.

8. When honey crystallizes, does it mean that it is non pure?
Crystallization is a natural phenomenon and will not affect the quality and quantity of honey. Some honey with high glucose content, such as wild flower honey and high-mountain flower honey, tend to crystallize fast, especially at low temperatures, while crystallization in longan honey is less commonly seen.

9. Is Cosmo honey suitable for kids and pregnant/lactating women?

Children under one year old are prohibited from eating honey due to their underdeveloped digestive track. However, honey intake may vary depending on different bodily adaptations. For children under 3, it is advised to give them a small amount first to see if any adverse reactions occur before allowing them to eat honey on a regular basis.

10. Can honey be heated up?
Heating up honey is not advised in order to avoid destroying its precious nutrients.

11. Honey is best when taken with other bee products (enzymes, royal jelly, pollen)?
Yes, it would be beneficial to take honey with enzymes. Depending on the body requirements, the different bee products combination is provide different therapeutic effects. The human body’s system is a complex structure that requires a complete set of nutrients, as well as energy, to maintain basic bodily functions. The precious natural and active nutrients from royal jelly and pollen, in addition to energy-boosting honey, provide a vitamin (mineral) complex that is 100% natural.

12. How Taiwanese honey compared with other bee products?