General Questions about Honey?
What is Honey? The raw material for honey is nectar from flowers. Honey bees collect this nectar, bring it back to the hive, and make it into honey. The bees change the chemical structure of the nectar, and also fan warm air to reduce the moisture content of the nectar from as much as 60% to 20% or even less. The honey has such low moisture content that it actually attracts humidity like a sponge, and in the hive the honey bees put a wax capping over the full cells of honey to help preserve it. Is Honey the same as Sugar? If by “sugar” we mean white table sugar, the answer is NO. Table sugar is sucrose, a substance made up of two molecules attached together. When we eat table sugar, our stomach has to use its own enzymes to separate the molecules apart before we can use the sugar’s energy. Honey is quite different. the bees have added a special enzyme to the nectar that separates the sucrose into glucose and fructose, two simple sugars that our bodies can directly absorb. In effect, th
What is Honey? The raw material for honey is nectar from flowers. Honey bees collect this nectar, bring it back to the hive, and make it into honey. The bees change the chemical structure of the nectar, and also fan warm air to reduce the moisture content of the nectar from as much as 60% to 20% or even less. The honey has such low moisture content that it actually attracts humidity like a sponge, and in the hive the honey bees put a wax capping over the full cells of honey to help preserve it.
