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Featured 18 May How honey bees make Honey ?  - AMODIVA RAW HONEY

How honey bees make Honey ? - AMODIVA RAW HONEY

 

To make honey bees forage about the farms and gardens. In doing this simple act, Honey Bees play a critical role of pollinators. They pollinate 70 of around 100 crops that feed 90% of the world! By doing so, Honey bees are responsible for $30 billion of crop produced in a year!

WHAT IS HONEY?

Honey is the sweet yellow substance made by bees, by converting nectar and pollen they collect from flowers. This mixture of pollen and nectar is then mixed with the special bee ingredient 'bee enzyme' to finally make – Honey!

Basically, honey is:

Sucrose (nectar and pollen) + invertase (bee enzyme) = fructose + glucose (honey)

There are different kinds and colors of honey as it is a natural food and made in different bee hives, by different bees and most importantly depending on where and on what (flowers) the bees have been foraging!

HOW HONEY BEES MAKE HONEY - HOW HONEY IS MADE ?

  • Honey bees forage out from their hives in search of pollen and nectar found on all kinds of flowers
  • Honey bees trap the pollen and nectar on their pollen sack on their legs and carry it back to the hive
  • Honey bees convert the sweet pollen and nectar they gather from flowers into honey by passing it through their digestive system and store it in the hexagonal hive
  • In the hive, bees constantly fan its wings causing evaporation.

The nectar they store starts to concentrate by way of evaporation (this means the water content is reduced) to finally create the sweet liquid, honey. This process prevents bacteria or any harmful thing to form in the honeycomb, because bacteria and fungi cannot multiply in high concentrations of sugar. This is why honey keeps does not expire or go bad !This means that honey is a form of food the bees can store, without it going bad.

COLOR AND FLAVOUR IN HONEY

Honey's color and flavor vary based on the nectar collected by the bees. For example, honey made from lemon blossom nectar might be light in color, whereas honey from ajwain or wildflowers might have a dark amber color.

The taste in honey comes naturally from the flowers the bees take the nectar and pollen from. For Example, when we prepare litchi honey, bee hives are kept in a farm with Litchi trees only. As bees take nectar and pollen only from litchi flowers, honey naturally gets the Litchi flavour. No flavours are added by bee keeper – its all natural! Interesting isn’t it!

RAW HONEY

Raw honey is honey as is found in the bee hive and is known to be the most nutritious honey. Raw honey is rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes and antioxidants.

Raw honey has more than 30 bioactive antioxidant compounds also known as polyphenols. These antioxidants help in improving heart health, digestion and helps in reducing edema, helps cure soar throat and cough to name a few. Moreover, the active enzymes help in improving metabolism.

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