what is the history of honey and how is it made?

Answer 1

Honey is as old as written history:

Honey is an organic, natural sugar alternative with no additives that is easy on the stomach, adapts to all cooking processes, and has an indefinite shelf-life.

HONEY HISTORY:

Honey is as old as written history, dating back to 2100 B.C. where it was mentioned in Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform writings, the Hittite code, and the sacred writings of India and Egypt. It is presumably even older than that.

Its name comes from the English hunig, and it was the first and most widespread sweetener used by man. Legend has it that Cupid dipped his love arrows in honey before aiming at unsuspecting lovers.

In the Old Testament of the Bible, Israel was often referred to as "the land of milk and honey." Mead, an alcoholic drink made from honey was called "nectar of the gods," high praise indeed.

Honey was valued highly and often used as a form of currency, tribute, or offering. In the 11th century A.D., German peasants paid their feudal lords in honey and beeswax.

Although experts argue whether the honeybee is native to the Americas, conquering Spaniards in 1600 A.D. found native Mexicans and Central Americans had already developed beekeeping methods to produce honey.

In days of old, honey has been used not only in food and beverages, but also to make cement, in furniture polishes and varnishes, and for medicinal purposes.

And, of course, bees perform the vital service of pollinating fruits, legumes, vegetables and other types of food-producing plants in the course of their business of honey production.

Honey trivia

• Honeybees must tap over two million flowers to make one pound of honey, flying a distance equal to more than three times around the world.
• The average worker bee will make only one-twelfth of a teaspoon of honey during its lifetime.
• The famous Scottish liqueur Drambuie is made with honey.

Honeybees use nectar to make honey. Nectar is almost 80% water with some complex sugars. In fact, if you have ever pulled a honeysuckle blossom out of its stem, nectar is the clear liquid that drops from the end of the blossom. In North America, bees get nectar from flowers like clovers, dandelions, berry bushes and fruit tree blossoms. They use their long, tubelike tongues like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their "honey stomachs". Bees actually have two stomachs, their honey stomach which they use like a nectar backpack and their regular stomach. The honey stomach holds almost 70 mg of nectar and when full, it weighs almost as much as the bee does. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill their honeystomachs.

The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar onto other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee's stomach through their mouths. These "house bees" "chew" the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, enzymes are breaking the complex sugars in the nectar into simple sugars so that it is both more digestible for the bees and less likely to be attacked by bacteria while it is stored within the hive. The bees then spread the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it, making it a thicker syrup. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the cell of the honeycomb with a plug of wax. The honey is stored until it is eaten. In one year, a colony of bees eats between 120 and 200 pounds of honey.

Answer 2

Bees make honey; people harvest the honey and separate it from the wax. Honey is canned by putting it in bottles or jars and taking it up to a certain temp. The ancient Egyptians kept bees.

Answer 3

honey is one of the products bearing the largest mythological tradition in all histories in the world.
In Greece where for the first time the art of apiculture took place in early prehistoric times, we can find a plethora of myths related to it. The most characteristic mythical trust that reflects honey's special value for Greeks is its consideration as the food of the Gods of Olympus known as "ambrosia".
the importance of honey for the humans is also praised in several classical texts of ancient Greece, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus, and in philosophical texts of Plato, Aristoteles, Democritus, and others.

the fact that Hippocrates, the father of medicine, emphasizes for the nutritional and pharmaceutical value of honey is not accidental. It is real that in ancient Greece, honey was used not only for its nutritional value but even for medical purposes inter alia.
On the other hand, honey played an extremely important role in cookery in ancient Greece as one of the basic ingredients in cooking and confectionery. Its use in ancient Greek food recipes, and it's a priority as the basic material for the preparation of sweets and delicacies, made honey use very popular in ancient Greece.

centuries later, the art of apiculture passed to Romans and then, to the rest of the world where immediately was incorporated to several people mythology and history.
Due to its extended development in various climatic habitats, honey it is produced in the majority of the countries, consisting one important nutritional source for the mankind.

Answer 4

When you're old enough we'll tell you all about the birds and the bees.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Honey is actually bee vomit. Enjoy...