how do bees make honey so sweet?

Question

im just curious to how the bees get honey to be so sweet?

Answer 1

Honey is a sweet, thick sugary solution made by bees. The composition of honey consists of varying proportions of fructose, glucose, water, oil and special enzymes produced by bees. (Glucose and fructose are types of suger)

The first step in making honey begins when field bees fly from flower to flower collecting the sweet juices or nectar that a flower provides. With their tongues, the field bees suck out the nectar and store it in sacs within their bodies. After filling their sacs with these sweet juices, the field bees fly back to their bee hive and regurgitate the stored nectar into the mouths of house bees.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Honey is evaporated nectar from flowers. The majority of the water in the nectar is evaporated by the bees wafting air over the uncapped honey cells. When the honey has reached the right consistency (about 80% sugar) the bees cap the cell, and the honey can then be stored for their winter feed - or for humans to harvest.

Answer 4

Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar. The honey we eat is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated.
A bee colony or hive consists of one queen bee, hundreds of drones, and thousands of busy worker bees -- sterile females who gather pollen, produce beeswax, build honeycombs, and make the honey that feeds the other bees. The honeybee uses her tubular tongue to suck nectar from the flower into her abdominal honey sack (the bee's second stomach or "honey stomach"). In the sack, complex plant sugars in the nectar begin to break down into simpler, more digestible sugars. When the sack is full, the bee returns to the hive to offload droplets of nectar to another food-processing worker bee. That bee will distribute it to the young or place it into the honeycomb for long-term storage.

Answer 5

Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar. The honey we eat is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated

Answer 6

honey is a mixture of about 95% complex sugars, and 5% enzymes.
thus, the sweet!

Answer 7

Their saliva contains some sort of protein. The chemical reaction between that saliva and the nector creates honey =D

Answer 8

first they take the pollon from flowers (which is sweet) then go back to the hives, and create honey. The pollen they use is sweet.

Answer 9

They have special throw-up.

Answer 10

bee spit