Honey is a very important and healthy food product that is defined by the EU (Eu Council Directive 2001/110/EC) as “The natural sweet product produced by Apis Mellifera bees from the nectar of plants from secretions of living plants, which bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in honeycombs to ripen and mature.” In the year 2010 the honey production of the world was 1.540. 242 tons and in EU was 202.871 tons. Hungary was the fourth biggest honey producer in EU with 16.500 tons. Hungarian acacia honey is widely known famous due to his purity.

Quality of honeys depends on various parameters such as sugar, moisture, vitamin, amino acids, element content, enzyme activity, electrical conductivity, solid corpuscles, etc. Mineral content of honey is very low. 1 Some of the metals such as chromium, copper, iron, manganese and zinc are essential for human body, 2 but at the same time these elements can be toxic to human beings in high doses. 3