The Honey. Interesting facts about honey.

dmilash (63)in #til • 8 years ago

Honey is a sweet food made by bees foraging nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to, as it is the type of honey collected by most beekeepers and consumed by people. Honey is also produced by bumblebees, stingless bees, and other hymenopteran insects such as honey wasps, though the quantity is generally lower and they have slightly different properties compared with honey from the genus Apis. Honey bees convert nectar into honey by a process of regurgitation and evaporation: they store it as a primary food source in wax honeycombs inside the beehive.

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It is known that honey was extracted in the early Stone Age, 15,000 years ago. This is evidenced by rock painting in a cave in Valencia, Spain.

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Bee necessary to fly 46 thousand kilometers, to collect 100 grams of honey. The equator is of the same length. The nectar collected by bees is used to fuel a bee.

And now a very interesting facts about honey:

Honey is very good outputs alcohol from the body due to the presence of fructose.

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Honey "Elf" from Turkey costs $ 6800 per kilo - this is the most expensive variety of honey in the world. It is produced in a cave in the valley near the town of Artvin Sarikair at a depth of 1,800 meters.

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Honey is very good preservative. The body of Alexander Macedonian was submerged in honey during transportation to the capital city of Macedonia.

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Bees were brought to Siberia just 200 years ago. And now, Siberia is a major supplier of honey.

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In 1985, the Peruvian customs officers detained at the border a large consignment of honey from Ecuador. As it turned out, the honey contained cocaine. Bees were let out directly on coca plantations to produce honey with cocaine.

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