What is honey exactly? Does it involve bee's bodily fluids? Ick!?

Answer 1

Honey is the equivalent of bee vomit

The composition of honey consists of varying proportions of fructose, glucose, water, oil and special enzymes produced by bees.

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.

These house bees are assigned the job of adding enzymes from their bodies to the nectar. The enzymes cause the water in the nectar to evaporate-thereby turning the nectar into honey. Lastly, the nectar is stored in a cell of a honeycomb. Overtime, the nectar ripens and becomes honey.

-Honey is one of the easiest foods to digest.
-Honey is used in many cough syrups because its smooth, thick texture soothes throats.
-As a result of honey's unique ability to readily absorb air, it is often used as a moistening agent in baking.
-Honey comes in all types of colors and flavors. The color and flavor of honey depends on the how old the honey is and the kind of flower that the nectar was extracted from

Answer 2

Yes it does. Did you know that Honey is a natural antiseptic with no germs in it it was used as a treatment against infection by the Romans and Egyptians in antiquity for severe wounds and cuts?

Answer 3

Yes, honey is essentially bee vomit.

Answer 4

Bee barf. Yep.

How bout milk?
And eggs, they shoot right out of a chickens a**.

How is honey any grosser than that?

Answer 5

Bee vomit

Answer 6

Mmmm... bee vomit.

Answer 7

heart 'o gold- you're very funny :)