our correspondent, oksana, studied patturkina.tem klimovich's apiary near moscow has 40 collapsible hives, and the beekeeper pours feed into each one. he mixes honey with water, adds extracts of medicinal herbs so that the bees do not get sick and can easily endure the approaching cold weather. and we pour it for our bees. one useful thing has been done. the absence of chemical additives in the feed guarantees the high quality of honey. the main indicator of its naturalness and maturity is the diastase number. diastase is an enzyme that the bee secretes with special glands when processing nectar into honey. the higher the number, the better the product. it depends not only on the nectar content. it also depends on the breed of bees that produce this honey, according to gost , the diastase number should be more than eight, our honey, for example, has a diastase number of 24. such honey has only one drawback - high cost price, which is reflected in the final price of the product. that is why many manufacturers resorted to a trick, m