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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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Honey has many healing properties:
- Honey is useful as sedative. Take one teaspoon of honey in warm milk before going to bed.
- Honey can be taken either with warm milk or with lemon juice and radish juice as a remedy for cold.
- Honey in warm milk or water can give relief to sore throats.
- Gargling with honey is very useful in gingivitis.
- A daily addition of honey to the food stimulates digestion and regulates the acidity of the gastric juices.
- One spoon of fresh honey mixed with the juice of half a lemon in a glass of lukewarm water taken first thing in the morning is very effective for constipation, hyperacidity and obesity.
- Honey is used to cure gastrointestinal problems. It is used as a remedy for gastritis and stomach and duodenal ulcers. In other words, for diseases accompanied by a rise in acidity.
- A mixture of honey and rose petals when taken in the morning, at the initial stages of tuberculosis produces best results.
- It is believed that a moderate quantity of honey and pomegranate (anar) is good for people with heart disease or heart weaknesses .
- Asefetida (hing) fried in ghee and mixed with a tablespoon of honey can be taken thrice a day for heavy and painful menstrual periods and leukorrhea.
- A daily intake of honey strengthens the immune system in children thus developing their disease resistance capacity.
- Add honey and fresh fruit to lowfat yogurt for an energy sustaining snack or stir a spoonful of honey into a glass of water before your daily workout.
What is the difference between acacia honey and regular honey?
Honey made by bees that draw pollen from acacia flowers has a milder, more floral taste than regular (clover) honey. It is also much softer in consistency, with an almost glasslike appearance. Unlike clover honey, it does not crystallize.
It is a stomach bees store honey when they collect the honey.
Bees have always made honey, God created the bee in the very beginning of time, so honey has been made for the last 8,000 yrs or there abouts! :)
Honey is a food.
For thousands of years man has collected honey, and until the advent of processed sugar from sugar cane or sugar beet, honey was the only way to sweeten food and drink, and many people still use it for sweetening.
Mainly nectar and pollen regurgitated repeatedly. Regurgitate means to spit up after being swallowed, but it cannot be used in place of the word 'vomit'. Honey is to feed the starving bee larvae as food but the bees' effort goes to waste as we steal honey and consume it as OUR food. Did you know that just a large tablespoon of honey takes over a million flowers? And bees work until they DIE. They work the moment they are born!
Honey contains many vitamins like B6, thiamine, niacin, riboflavin, pentatonic acid and certain amino acids and minerals including calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and zinc. It has antioxidants as well which will help build up your immune system.
The term 'honey pot' can have many meanings. It may be a portable toilet or it may be an item or website used to attract bad guys.
A honey pot website is one that is in place specifically to draw hackers and crackers so their information can be collected, or a honey pot can be a car or bicycle left where it is likely to attract criminal attentions.
If you like a natural sweetness then Honey will taste good to you. If you don't then Hney is not something you should try. Honey taste VERY GOOD and i answered my own Q BAM IN UR FACE
Honey is hygroscopic meaning honey will absorb moisture. If the moisture content of honey exceeds 18.6%, honey will tend to ferment. The fermentation yeast in the honey will turn the sugars of the honey into alcohol. This causes honey to have a sour taste. Some people like fermented honey in spite of having a sour taste due to the fermentation of the honey. It is recommended that if honey is to be stored for any length of time, it should have a moisture content of around 17%. The honey yeast are not able to grow at cool temperatures. So if honey is stored at below 50 degrees F., the yeast will not grow and are not able to grow and cause fermentation. Fermented honey should not be fed back to the bees because alcohol is poisonous to bees. Honey can be frozen and that is a good way to keep honey for long periods of time. The optimum temperature for honey fermentation is above 80 degrees F.
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Is there a difference between Clover Honey and Bee Honey?
Honey is honey for the most part. Clover Honey is honey that is created by bee hives that are predominantly surrounded by clover flowers. The flowers used have some affect on the flavor, for instance, bee hives in orange groves will have a subtle hint of orange in their taste. According to the National Honey Board, to be identified as Clover Honey, at least 50% of the flowers from which pollen is collected must be that type of flower.
Bee Honey probably refers to the fact that there isn't a specific single type of flower that can be identified in the honey.
How do you Test Honey quality?
submerge a matchstick in a honey sample and if still lights up when you scratch it then its the real thing! - Old Philippine Way
What effect does honey and lemon have on lactation?
Honey and lemon does not have any affect on lactation. It will not stop lactation, increase lactation or anything else.
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Honey can actually go bad if it is exposed to certain yeasts or fungi, such as Schizosaccharomyces (actual name!). But in these cases you will actually notice the fungi forming on the surface of the honey.
Honey will also crystallise if the moisture in the honey drops too low, which is caused by keeping it in prolonged exposure to sunlight and/or heat. Most of the time you can reverse the crystallisation by putting the honey in a seal-able heat-proof container and submerging in hot water for a few minutes.
Other than that, honey is one of the very few foods that will not go bad.
The reason there is a short use-by date on honey products is because of government regulations. All food must be marked with a "safe-limit" use-by date by law. No exceptions.
Honey (and any food) stored in plastic packaging/containers will always contain levels of toxins. Plastic contains many toxins which easily seep into and contaminate food. Another big reason why we have use-by dates.
For the best honey, buy organic honey stored in a glass jar.
(Remember to recycle the jar afterwards!)
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No honey never goes out of date.
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Nope. Pure honey will last much longer than you will. Honey never goes bad (at least not after thousands of years). Honey was discovered in the tombs of Egypt and was still good.
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Honey has natural anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties so under normal circumstances it will not 'go bad' provided it is kept in a closed container. However, honey is hygroscopic -- that is, it will absorb water from the atmosphere -- so if kept for a long period in an open container its water content will increase. If it rises high enough the honey will eventually start to ferment.
Some people think when honey crystalizes something has gone wrong with it. This is far from the case. All honey will crystalize, it is just that some will crystalize sooner than others. This is a perfectly natural process and reflects the fact that honey is a saturated sugar solution.
If you want to liquify honey that has crystalized, heat it very gently by loosening the jar lid (don't remove it) and putting the jar in a bowl of warm water, no hotter than you can bear to keep your hand in, and keep it warm for as long as it takes for the sugar crystals to dissolve. Don't be tempted to use a microwave or higher temperatures because if you overheat the honey it will spoil the flavour.
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How do you decrystalize honey?
Usually you can decrystalize honey by warming it up, try standing your jar or pot in a bowl of warm water for 10 - 15 minutes then stir the honey.
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For honey that refuses to turn back into syrup, microwave it on Medium Low for 20-30 seconds at a time, till it feels like a cup of hot tea.
Take it out and stir, breaking up the little chunks as much as possible. (I use chopsticks to reach in there.) If the syrup is too thick, add a little bit of water (about 1 teaspoonful at a time.)
It took me about half an hour, but I was able to change about 98% of the crystalized honey back to syrup doing it this way.
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Can the color of clothing attract honey bees to sting?
Studies indicate that insects react to UV light. Garden spiders spin patterns in their webs that reflect UV light and make insects think they're approaching the kind of plant they desire. Color is not a significant factor.
=== === Excuse me if I get a little bit long-winded here, but I love honey, both for the food that it is and because it has helped me with my sinus problems in the spring during pollen season. Honey is a byproduct of a honeybee hive. It has natural sugars in it and is much healthier than fructose, sucrose and table sugar. The other sugars are processed and lose their nutritional value. It is fat-free and contains zero grams of trans fat. It has no sodium, but is high in carbohydrates, about 16-17 grams per teaspoonful. It is a quick pick-me-up that does not cause you to "drop" like those energy drinks. If you are allergic to the pollens that make everything yellow during the spring, find a local person who sells locally harvested honey. This is important: When you consume locally harvested honey, you consume small doses of pollen that you are allergic to. Come pollen season, you are almost immune to the problems you once had -- the sneezing, the itchy eyes, etc. If you buy honey, say, made in Ohio and you live in Georgia, you won't get all the benefits, because the pollens are different in the two regions. I asked an emergency room physician what could I do for my allergies and he suggested honey and explained to me what I've just posted.
Why bees fall to the ground after poisoning their nests?
DON'T KILL BEES!!!! Bees pollinate everything and without bees we'd be hard up for a good food supply throughout the world. Bees harm nothing! When you poisoned the hive you killed some bees and those that fall to the ground and are crawling around are stunned or disorientated. The next time you want to get rid of bees and their hive call a beekeeper in and they'd be glad to take it from you for free! Beekeepers are alarmed in the U.S. and Canada that their hives are full of dead bees. i have flower gardens and make a point of buying flowering shrubs or flowers that actually attract bees and I've never been stun once by them. I've even had them crawling on arms or on my hands. The only time normal bees will sting is if you accidently stepped on one in bare feet or put your hand down on them. It's their way of survival. Other than that bees do not swarm after people, only killer bees do (more aggressive thanks to science.) One shouldn't fool Mother Nature like that.
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