Honey is a sweet, natural superfood.
- Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance.
- It is made by bees and some related insects.
- Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants.
- Other insects make honey by regurgitation, enzymatic activity, or water evaporation.
- Also, Mexican honey wasps make honey.
- This honey though is considered poisonous.
- Honey is not considered vegan.
- But it is okay for vegetarians to consume it.
- The honey -bees that produce honey belong to the genus Apis.
- Honey is collected from wild bee colonies.
- Otherwise, it is collected from hives of domesticated bees.
- This practice is known as beekeeping or apiculture.
- Honey is very sweet.
- Some people replace sugar with honey.
- It is commonly added to the tea, whereas some people add it even in their coffee.
- It takes its sweetness from its fructose and glucose.
- Fifteen ml of hiney provides 190kilocalories of food energy.
- This is one tablespoon of honey!
- This is the reason why honey is a natural superfood.
- Honey use and production have a long history dating back to ancient times.
- When someone wants to call someone in a cute and friendly way he or she can the other person as “honey”.
- When honey sealed properly it has eternal life.
- There are even reports that it was found in ancient Egyptian tombs!
- A typical beehive can produce anywhere from 30 to 100 pounds of honey a year.
- In the 11th century, honey was really valuable in Germany.
- The reason why it was so appreciated was because of its beer-sweetening abilities.
- Bees survive through the honey.
- This is why they work during the summer, in order to have enough honey to make it through the winter.
- In fact, they make 2 to 3 times more honey than it needs to survive the winter.
- Honey was “prescribed” as medical treatment in ancient Mesopotamia.
- There are many different kinds of honey.
- Its color and flavor depend on the flower that is going to be pollinated by the bees.
- Despite the fact that everyone believes that every bee makes honey, only 7 known bee species make honey.
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