Organic 100% Agave Syrup – Golden Bee – 480ml

Organic 100% Agave Syrup – Golden Bee – 480ml

Agave syrup is a wonderful & natural liquid sweetener, which can be used as an alternative to sugar and honey. It comes from Blue Agave, a type of cactus which also produces tequila and is grown in Mexico as well as some other parts of the world.

Agave is a staple  ingredient in the vegan diet, due to the variety of ways it can be used: as a sweetener in coffee/tea, in muesli and other cereal, in sweets (it is a perfect binder for home-made cereal bars!), in cooking, cocktails & more! It has a low glycemic index, which means that it burns slow  (contrary to sugar) and gives you lots of energy.

Our history begins somewhere in the 1950’s in the small village “Marathos” in Heraklion, on the island of Crete, where my parents (Andreas and Katerina Kostakis, with the help of their 8 children, amongst them me, as well) transferred on donkeys their bee hives in the “fraskia” (the Greek name for hives back in those times) around the regions of the village.
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Their goal was to produce thyme honey and heather honey. This kind of honey was for family and friends. Later on, with the progress of technology, the distance was no longer a difficulty and the transfer of the hives became even easier with the use of vans. This is how we started transferring our bee hives anywhere we believed they could yield (for example, in the mountains of Ierapetra for pine honey, in Psiloritis [Mount Ida] for thyme honey and summer savory).

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