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Honey

A sweet, sticky yellow to amber-colored substance produced by insects, especially bees. Honey, which is derived from the pollen collected by insects, mixed with their salivary enzymes, is a popular food item prized for its medicinal properties and delicious culinary uses.

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Does honey come from a plant?

Bees collect nectar from flowers, which they then make honey from. So, in short, the answer is yes.

How can you find pure honey from adulteration?

Drop one teaspoon of honey in a bowl of water. If it dissolves quickly, it means that your honey is adulterated. If it doesn't, then you can be sure that it is pure. This is because pure honey doesn't have any additives and and it is viscous where as adulterated honey has other ingredients which makes it dissolve quickly in water.

Also you can find sugar crystals formed on top in adultered honey if stored for long period of time.

Why does honey cost less than the honeycomb from which it's made?

Honey is not made from honeycomb, it is extracted from honeycomb. Each cell of the comb contains honey and it is extracted by spinning it out using centrifugal force. Afterwards, the empty comb can be re-used in the hive and filled up again by the bees.

Honeycomb is more expensive because it is cut from the honeycomb frame and so cannot be re-used.

How many milliliter is 250g honey?

A typical density for honey is Honey is 1.36 grams/ mL. 250 g honey would therefor be 250/1.36 or 183 ml

What is the name of chopped walnuts covered in honey called?

Found a recipe called Georgian Honey Walnut Candy... click on the Related Link below to see if it's what you are looking for.

Can honey prevent the growth of molds?

Yes it can, provided it is not diluted in any. Honey's anti-fungal properties depend on the concentration of sugars being so high that mould spores can't develop.

Honey actually contains some natural yeast cells, and if you add water to honey it will probably start to ferment.

What are the side effects oF HONEY?

the side effects of honey is that you gain some weight and have too much calories and then it leads to obesity .

Does ray liotta make honey?

No he does not. He can only put it in jars.

Can someone whos pregnant eat honey?

Yes, honey is safe for pregnant women.

However, infants under the age of 1 should not be given honey due to an increased risk of botulism.

Is a honeybee a endothermic or ectothermic?

A honeybee is both. Like other insects, the honey bee is cold-blooded (exothermic). However, unlike other insects, the honey bee does not die off in the fall or hibernate, but is active all winter eating and metabolizing honey to keep warm. Individual honeybees are exothermic (maintaining body heat from outside sources), but a hive collectively is endothermic (maintains body heat from within).

Is honey good for coughs?

Honey can help with a scratchy throat. It sooths it.

Where can you get manuka honey?

Any store really... Or a bees nest... If I were you id try the supermarket...

Why is honey bad for you?

Honey is not intrinsically bad for you.

It is a mixture of various sugars and other compounds; about 82% sugar.

It contains only trace amounts of vitamins, very little protein and no fat.

In moderation, it is not a bad thing.

It is only maligned because many people have too much sugar in their diet, already.

Did honeybee hutch found his mother?

Yes, at episode 91 (the last one) he finds his mother, the queen.

Is cinnamon and honey a cure for many things?

Yes, seperately on most occasions.. Many people mix either honey or cinammon with medicinal herbs in order to make it appealing or to simply help balance out the curing agents in the mixture

Why is the honey comb not a bravais lattice?

If you take a look at one segment of the honeycomb e.g.

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you can see that lattice points at -o< and >o- segments do not have the same "neighbours". It is important to notice that both the arrangement and orientation have to be the same at any point in Bravais lattice.

For more detail see Ashcroft - Solid State Physics (pg. 64).

Is Honey an antiseptic?

Yes, in ancient Egypt they used to use honey as an antisceptic on wounds and it has been proven by modern scientists that it kills bacteria.

What is pasturage and it is related to honey production?

Pasturage refers to the vegetative cover from where bees collect nectar. Hence it is related to Honey Production.

Do bees puke up the honey?

Actually, ... yes. When bees collect nectar they put it in a special storage stomach. When they return to the hive, they transfer the nectar stomach mixture to other bees for further processing. (Yup; honey bees eat each other’s puke.) Enzymes in the bee’s storage stomach help turn the nectar into honey. This all may sound gross, but honey is yummy and a very healthy human food.

Is manuka honey healthy?

Manuka Honey is a type of honey native to New Zealand produced by the bees that pollinate the flower Leptospermum scoparium or commonly famous as the manuka bush. The antibacterial property of manuka honey differentiates it from other honey. Along with the antibacterial property this honey also widely used for its antiviral, anti-inflammation, and antioxidants benefits.

Is warm honey good for you?

According the the ancient Indian system of medicine known as Ayurveda, COOKED honey is bad for you - warm honey shouldn't be a problem. In fact, warm honey in warm milk is a well-known European cure for anxiety, sleeplessness, cough, sore throat and otehr things.

What ingredents are in honey maid graham cracker?

Flour, sugar, cottonseed and soybean oil, molasses and cinnamon and a lot of unnatural ingredients

Disadvantages of a honey pot site?

damages the natural environment because of lots of people