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What is Honey

Natural Honey Honey is a natural sweet, thick sugary solution produced by honeybees. Honeybees collect the nectar or sweet juices from blossoms. It also can get from the secretion of living parts of plants or, excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants. With their tongues, the honeybees suck out the nectar and keep it in sacs with these sweet juices, the honeybees fly back to their hive, store and leave in the honeycomb to ripen and mature.

Honey is primarily composed of glucose, fructose and water. It also contains special enzymes, vitamin, amino acids, ash and mineral. (Enzyme that honeybees produce turn the sucrose-a disaccharide- into glucose and fructose (monosaccharide)). Table sugar contains same basic units as honey, is glucose and fructose. Granulated table sugar has glucose and fructose hooked together. Whereas in honey, fructose and glucose remain in individual units. Fructose is sweeter than glucose, that is a reason fructose is used in many food product. However, fructose does not convert to energy as efficiently as glucose. Besides this, honey contains nearly all of the trace elements that human needs. It is also free of fat, cholesterol and sodium.

Honey comes in different types of colors and flavors. The color and flavor of honey depends on the how old the honey is and the kind of flavor that the nectar source was extracted from. The color of honey ranges from light brown to dark brown. The flavor varies from delectably mild to distinctively bold. In general, lighter colored honeys are mild in flavor, while darker honeys are more robust in flavor.