:''For alternate meanings see Honey (disambiguation)'' Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. "The definition of honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance. This includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners," according the [http://www.nhb.org/ National Honey Board 2003] and other nations' food regulations. Honey is significantly sweetness than table sugar and has attractive chemical properties for baking. Honey has a distinctive flavor which leads some people to prefer it over sugar and other sweeteners. Liquid honey does not spoil. Because of its high sugar concentration, it kills bacterium by osmotic lysis. Natural airborne yeasts cannot become active in it because the moisture content is too low. Natural, raw honey varies from 14% to 18% moisture content. As long as the moisture content remains under 18%, virtually no organism can successfully multiply to significant amounts in honey. The study of pollens and spores in raw honey (melissopalynology) can determine floral sources of honey. Because bees carry an electrostatic charge, and can attract other particles, the same techniques of melissopalynology can be used in area environmental studies of radioactive particles, dust, or particulate pollution. ==Composition of honey== Honey is mixture of sugars, water, and other compounds. The specific composition of any batch of honey will depend largely on the mix of flowers consumed by the bees that produced the honey. Honey has a density of about 1500 kilogram/metre (50% denser than water). ;Typical Honey Analysis *Fructose: 38% *Glucose: 31% *Sucrose: 1% *Water: 17% *Sugar: 9% (maltose, melezitose) *Ash: 0.17% :Source: [http://www.sugaralliance.org/desktopdefault.aspx?page_id=97 Sugar Alliance] The analysis of the sugar content of honey is used for detecting adulteration. == Types of honey == The flavor and color of the substance is largely determined by the nectar source. Common flavors of honey include Orange (fruit) honey, tupelo honey, buckwheat honey, clover honey, blackberry, and blueberry honey. In Australia, the most common honey is from the eucalyptus trees, such as redgum, yellow gum and stringybark. Tasmanian leatherwood honey is considered a delicacy for its unique flavour. Manuka honey from New Zealand is said by some to have more special healing properties than other honeys, therefore sells at a premium price. While it is rare for any honey to be produced exclusively from one floral source, honey will take on the flavor of the dominant flower in the region. Orange blossom, tupelo, and sourwood are favored types in the United States. Greece is famous for wild thyme honey, as is France for lavender and Black locust honey. In 2005, New Zealand had 320,000 beehive (beekeeping) that produced an average annual crop of 8,600 tonnes of honey. These honeys cover a huge range of flavour types and properties. From mild to very strong flavoured, light to dark coloured, delicately perfumed to pungent and even honeys with significant antibacterial properties. Most commercially available honey is blended. Monofloral honeys are especially valuable on the market. New Zealand is a major producer of several of these fine monofloral honeys: Viper's Bugloss Honey, Nodding Thistle Honey, Kamahi Honey, Honeydew Honey, Tawari Honey, Rewarewa Honey or Thyme Honey. Another is Rata Honey, considered by many to be the best of New Zealand Honeys. It is very white in colour, has a subtle, mild yet rich and distinctive flavour - not overly sweet, almost salty. A main effect of bees collecting nectar to make honey is pollination, which is crucial for flowering plant. === Honeydew === Instead of taking nectar bees can take honeydew, which appears similar to honey, which is the sweet secretions of aphid - most importantly the aphid ''Marchalina hellenica'' which feeds on the sap of the Turkish Pine, or other plant sap-sucking insects. Honeydew from pine forests has a "piney" taste and is prized for medicinal use in Europe and Turkey. Bees collecting this resource have to be fed protein supplements, as honeydew lacks the protein-rich pollen accompaniment gathered from flowers. In New Zealand honeydew nectar is produced from a small, scale insect (''Ultracoelostoma assimile'') living in the bark of two of New Zealand's beech forests, mostly black beech (black from the sooty mould growing on the surplus nectar covering the trunks and branches) and to a lesser extent, red beech. In the early morning sunlight, the droplets of nectar glisten like the morning dew, giving the name honeydew. Germany's "Black Forest" is a well known source of honeydew produced honeys. Honeydew honey has full flavour aroma, is heady, almost pungent and malty with a thick red amber colour. == Use of honey == The main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, spreading on bread or toast, and as an addition to various beverages such as tea. Because honey is hygroscopic (drawing moisture from the air), a small quantity of honey added to a pastry recipe will retard the staling process. Raw honey also contains enzymes that help in its digestion, several vitamins and antioxidants. Honey is the main ingredient in the alcoholic drink, mead, which is also known as "honey wine", and methelgin. Honey is used in traditional folk medicine and is an excellent natural preservative. Most vegans consider honey to be an animal product. So they avoid using it, consuming, instead, alternatives such as golden syrup. It should be noted that without commercial beekeeping, large-scale fruit and vegetable farming and some of the seed industry would be incapable of sustaining themselves since many crops are pollination by migratory beekeepers who contract their bees for that purpose. === Use as a medicine === In addition to its use as a sweetener, all honey has antibacterial properties and may be used as a burn and wound dressing. Manuka, a strong tasting monofloral honey from New Zealand, is widely marketed for this attribute. The Qur-aan states that Honey is ' a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Honey may also be used in homemade beauty remedies and as an inexpensive anti-acne treatment [http://www.pioneerthinking.com/nhb_beauty.html 1]. == Precautions == Honey is not always healthful. Because it is gathered from flowers in the wild, there are situations in which it may be toxic. (See: Grayanotoxin.) Rhododendrons and azaleas have nectar that is poisonous to humans though harmless to bees. The shape of the Azalea flower, however, makes access to nectar difficult for honeybees. And during the time at which Azaleas bloom, there are usually other flowers available which are more appealing to the honeybee. So lethal honey is rarely encountered. Nonetheless, honey, corn syrup and other natural sweeteners are a potential and acute threat to infants. Harmless to adults because of a mature person's stomach acidity, botulinum spores are widely present in the environment and are among the few bacteria that can survive in honey. Since an infant's digestive juices are non-acidic, ingestion of honey creates an ideal medium for botulinum spores to grow and produce sufficient levels of toxins to cause infant botulism. For this reason, it is advised that neither honey, nor any other sweetener, be given to children under the age of 18 months. Once a child is eating solid food, the digestive juices are acidic enough to prevent the growth of the spores. Equally sugars should not be fed to a puppy as this can cause her/him to go into a "sugar high". The sugar crash that follows may result in the loss of consciousness or even death. == Honey formation == Honey is laid down by bees as a food source. In cold weather or when food sources are scarce, bees use their honey as their sole source of nutrition. By contriving the bee swarm to make its home in a hive, mankind has been able to domesticate the insects. In the hive there are three types of bee: the single queen bee, up to 200 drone bees to fertilize her and some 20,000 to 80,000 worker bees. The worker bees raise larva and collect the nectar that will become honey in the hive. The Qur-aan states that the female bees are the ones who go out to collect nectar. They go out, collects the sugar-rich flower nectar and returns to the hive. As they leave the flower, bees releases nasonov pheromones. These enable other bees to find their way to the site by smell. Honeybees also release nasonov pheromones at the entrance to the hive, which enables returning bees to return to the proper hive. In the hive the bees regurgitate the nectar a sufficient number of times so that it is partially digested. It is then stored in the honeycomb. Nectar, as collected from a flower, is high in both water content and natural yeasts, which unchecked would cause the sugars to be fermented. After the final regurgitation, the honeycomb is left unsealed - bees inside the hive "fan" their wings creating a strong draught across the honeycomb. This enhances evaporation of much of the water from the nectar. The reduction in water content, which raises the sugar concentration, prevents fermentation. As removed from the hive by the beekeeper, whether clarified or not the honey has a long shelf life, neither fermenting nor turning rancid. The beekeeper encourages overproduction of honey within the hive so that the excess can be taken without endangering the bees. When sources of foods for the bees are short the beekeeper may have to feed the bees on sugar so they can survive. == Honey as a product == ===Honey processing=== *Comb honey A popular honey product. The honey is sold still in the wax comb. *Raw Honey Honey as it exists in the beehive or as obtained by extraction, settling or straining without adding heat. Raw honey contains some pollen and may contain small particles of wax. Local raw honey is sought after by allergy sufferers as the pollen impurities lessen the sensitivity to hay fever. *Filtered Honey Honey processed by filtration to remove extraneous solids and pollen grains. *Strained Honey Honey which has been passed through a mesh material to remove particulate material (pieces of wax, propolis, other defects) without removing pollen. ===Other descriptions=== *Blended Honey A homogeneous mixture of two or more honeys differing in floral source, color, flavor, density or geographic origin. *Churned Honey or Cremed Honey See whipped honey. *Crystallized Honey Honey in which some of the glucose content has spontaneously crystallized from solution as the monohydrate. Also called "Granulated Honey." *Honey Fondant See whipped honey. *Spun Honey See whipped honey. in addition, Organic Honey is honey produced, processed, and packaged in accordance with national regulations, and certified as such by some government body or an independent organic farming certification organization. == Related Topics == *food *drink *list of cocktails *list of recipes *glucose *nectar ta:தேன் Spreads Sweeteners bees Beekeeping
Could anyone add nutritional information for honey? What is in it aside from water and sugar? Are there minerals in honey for example? ___________________ "Honey is apparently the only food that does not spoil. (Um...while this can be found on the inside of a Snapple bottle cap, Im not quite confident in the validity of this "fact"). As a beekeeper and someone who has been producing and learning about honey for close to 30 years, I can confirm the "fact" that honey does not spoil. Honey is naturally antibiotic and antiviral. The only way that natural airborn yeasts can become active is for water to be added to honey. As long as the moisture content remains under 18% nothing will grow in honey. Natural, raw, honey varies from 14% to 18% moisture content. Raw honey also contains enzymes that help in its digeston. Honey was found in one of the Egyptian pyramids, estimated at several thousand years old, and it was still good." These 2 passages need to be merged, de-personalised and edited to read in a more encyclopedic way I think User:Quercusrobur 18:40 Feb 7, 2003 (UTC) ___________________ I removed an erroneous implication that pasturization makes honey safer from botulinum sprores. The amount of heat that would be required to kill the spores would ruin the quality of honey. It would also be futile, since these spores are widely present in our environment. User:Pollinator 14:13, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC) ''Honey was found in one of the Egyptian pyramids, estimated at several thousand years old, and it was still good.'' - is this for real? any sources? User:202.156.2.35 14:32, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) :I suspect "good" is in the sense of "edible" not "high quality." I find it believable with that qualification. It's part of beekeeper folklore. User:Pollinator 14:37, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) - A cursory googling doesn't find any confirmation of this "honey in pyramid" story. I do find a reference to a child preserved in honey, but this has no confirmation and is actually mentioned on snopes.com as likely an (early) urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/tapping.htm User:Martijn faassen Some more googling on honey in the pyramids shows up this page: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/yuyatb.htm Not a pyramid (but valley of kings), and not honey (but initially misidentified as such). User:Martijn faassen :I just checked the latest edition of The Hive and the Honeybee, a voluminous standard reference on bees and beekeeping. It repeats the assertion, without attribution. Since there is a large panel of well respected scientists that put this together, I think they'd have dropped it, if it were merely a legend. :Quote: "...edible honey has been unearthed from the tombs of pharoahs after many thousands of years in clay pots" :Honey was a major part of the process of embalming, and was produced in large quantities in early Egypt, so it does not seem farfetched. Probably the best author to check for authoritative comment would be ''Eva Crane'', who has done a lot of work on beekeeping history, but I don't have any of her works at hand. User:Pollinator 18:05, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::A large panel of well respected scientists can still make mistakes, especially when it pertains areas not their own science, and especially when it involves "lore" knowledge. Note that 'tombs of pharaos' does not necessarily mean 'pyramids', as is asserted now on the article; I suggest we change that at least. ::I see this piece of lore repeated over and over on web pages relating honey, especially when detailing the amazing properties of it, but I see anything ranging from 'small residues' to 'jars of honey' to 'honeycomb' as what was found, and so far no references to an authorative source. It's also listed on 'amazing factoid' pages. ::One reference so far, is an archeologist T,M. Davies who is supposed to have found honey: ::http://www.beekmanandbeekman.com/honeytidbits.html ::but on the previously listed page: ::http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/yuyatb.htm ::we see a reference to a certain 'Theodore M. Davis', and that's the page talking about a jar of something that is initially *misidentified* as honey. As evidenced at http://anubis4_2000.tripod.com/SpecialExhibits/Davis.htm it turned out to be natron. Could that be the source of this bit of folklore? In that case honey wasn't found. Or was honey found on another occasion? User:Martijn faassen ::Found some more information; this time "Small pottery flasks, which according to the hieratic inscriptions on the side originally contained honey, were found in the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun", as mentioned here: http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/sacredinsect.htm ::If that's true, then that implies there *wasn't* any honey there anymore to be edible. User: Martijn faassen (A week later) Is any action going to be taken on this article? I think I showed convincingly enough there is no evidence honey was found in any ''pyramids'', and that the claims in general about finding edible honey in Egyptian tombs are - while an oft-repeated fact - somewhat dubious. My preference would be to change the article taking out the whole line referencing the archeological honey finds until more evidence comes along. If it turns out there ''were'' such finds, we can add it again. If we can confirm definitely that this is ''untrue'', then I believe this should be noted too, in the light of the many claims to the opposite. I don't want to change this page myself however, without at least some input from others. User: Martijn faassen Have you (or anybody) checked any of Eva Crane's historical works? She's about the most authoritative person on the planet as far as bee history goes. If it isn't there, delete. I suspect that there is some truth to the folklore, but the original reference would be old and would not be on the Internet. I'm sorry, I'm not near any university library, so I can't check the reference myself.User:Pollinator 20:50, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC) :I propose that while we're actually unsure about the tomb story, let alone the pyramid story, and this is stated as fact in the article but is based on hearsay but cannot be confirmed by either of us, we actually remove this. We can simply leave in that honey can be kept for a very long time, of course. --User:Martijn faassen 21:45, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::Since nobody objected I've removed the "edible honey in Egyptian pyramid" reference. If someone can come up with evidence of course we should re-add it. --User:Martijn faassen 23:45, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC) ===Vegans?=== I have no evidence but does the average vegan actually avoid honey? The ones I have encountered either object to farming methods or have an ethical problem with either consuming any creature or using and pontentially interfering with animals which have a cognitive ability. I would estimate that vegans who avoid honey are a fringe, but I will bow to any evidence proving the contrary User:Dainamo 22:48, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC) : http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/criteria.php : The manufacture and/or development of the product, and where applicable its ingredients, must not involve, or have involved, the use of any animal product, by-product or derivative. Such as: : Bee Products - bee pollen, bee venom, beeswax, honey, propolis, royal jelly : User:Greyweather 23:47, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC) : http://www.vegsource.com/jo/qa/qahoney.htm : Furthermore, the vegan position on honey is definitive. Honey was prohibited for use by vegans according to the 1944 manifesto of the British Vegan Society (veganism's founding organization), a position consistent with the requirement for full (vegan) membership in the [http://www.americanvegan.org/ American Vegan Society] since its inception in 1960. : User:Justinsomnia 04:02, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Honeydew == This surely merits being removed to its own article. User:GraemeLeggett 10:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC) :Strike that, I see what actually needs doing is correcting it.
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Honey
:''For alternate meanings see Honey (disambiguation)'' Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. "The definition of honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance. This includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners," according the [http://www.nhb.org/ National Honey Board 2003] and other nations' food regulations. Honey is significantly sweetness than table sugar and has attractive chemical properties for baking. Honey has a distinctive flavor which leads some people to prefer it over sugar and other sweeteners. Liquid honey does not spoil. Because of its high sugar concentration, it kills bacterium by osmotic lysis. Natural airborne yeasts cannot become active in it because the moisture content is too low. Natural, raw honey varies from 14% to 18% moisture content. As long as the moisture content remains under 18%, virtually no organism can successfully multiply to significant amounts in honey. The study of pollens and spores in raw honey (melissopalynology) can determine floral sources of honey. Because bees carry an electrostatic charge, and can attract other particles, the same techniques of melissopalynology can be used in area environmental studies of radioactive particles, dust, or particulate pollution. ==Composition of honey== Honey is mixture of sugars, water, and other compounds. The specific composition of any batch of honey will depend largely on the mix of flowers consumed by the bees that produced the honey. Honey has a density of about 1500 kilogram/metre (50% denser than water). ;Typical Honey Analysis *Fructose: 38% *Glucose: 31% *Sucrose: 1% *Water: 17% *Sugar: 9% (maltose, melezitose) *Ash: 0.17% :Source: [http://www.sugaralliance.org/desktopdefault.aspx?page_id=97 Sugar Alliance] The analysis of the sugar content of honey is used for detecting adulteration. == Types of honey == The flavor and color of the substance is largely determined by the nectar source. Common flavors of honey include Orange (fruit) honey, tupelo honey, buckwheat honey, clover honey, blackberry, and blueberry honey. In Australia, the most common honey is from the eucalyptus trees, such as redgum, yellow gum and stringybark. Tasmanian leatherwood honey is considered a delicacy for its unique flavour. Manuka honey from New Zealand is said by some to have more special healing properties than other honeys, therefore sells at a premium price. While it is rare for any honey to be produced exclusively from one floral source, honey will take on the flavor of the dominant flower in the region. Orange blossom, tupelo, and sourwood are favored types in the United States. Greece is famous for wild thyme honey, as is France for lavender and Black locust honey. In 2005, New Zealand had 320,000 beehive (beekeeping) that produced an average annual crop of 8,600 tonnes of honey. These honeys cover a huge range of flavour types and properties. From mild to very strong flavoured, light to dark coloured, delicately perfumed to pungent and even honeys with significant antibacterial properties. Most commercially available honey is blended. Monofloral honeys are especially valuable on the market. New Zealand is a major producer of several of these fine monofloral honeys: Viper's Bugloss Honey, Nodding Thistle Honey, Kamahi Honey, Honeydew Honey, Tawari Honey, Rewarewa Honey or Thyme Honey. Another is Rata Honey, considered by many to be the best of New Zealand Honeys. It is very white in colour, has a subtle, mild yet rich and distinctive flavour - not overly sweet, almost salty. A main effect of bees collecting nectar to make honey is pollination, which is crucial for flowering plant. === Honeydew === Instead of taking nectar bees can take honeydew, which appears similar to honey, which is the sweet secretions of aphid - most importantly the aphid ''Marchalina hellenica'' which feeds on the sap of the Turkish Pine, or other plant sap-sucking insects. Honeydew from pine forests has a "piney" taste and is prized for medicinal use in Europe and Turkey. Bees collecting this resource have to be fed protein supplements, as honeydew lacks the protein-rich pollen accompaniment gathered from flowers. In New Zealand honeydew nectar is produced from a small, scale insect (''Ultracoelostoma assimile'') living in the bark of two of New Zealand's beech forests, mostly black beech (black from the sooty mould growing on the surplus nectar covering the trunks and branches) and to a lesser extent, red beech. In the early morning sunlight, the droplets of nectar glisten like the morning dew, giving the name honeydew. Germany's "Black Forest" is a well known source of honeydew produced honeys. Honeydew honey has full flavour aroma, is heady, almost pungent and malty with a thick red amber colour. == Use of honey == The main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, spreading on bread or toast, and as an addition to various beverages such as tea. Because honey is hygroscopic (drawing moisture from the air), a small quantity of honey added to a pastry recipe will retard the staling process. Raw honey also contains enzymes that help in its digestion, several vitamins and antioxidants. Honey is the main ingredient in the alcoholic drink, mead, which is also known as "honey wine", and methelgin. Honey is used in traditional folk medicine and is an excellent natural preservative. Most vegans consider honey to be an animal product. So they avoid using it, consuming, instead, alternatives such as golden syrup. It should be noted that without commercial beekeeping, large-scale fruit and vegetable farming and some of the seed industry would be incapable of sustaining themselves since many crops are pollination by migratory beekeepers who contract their bees for that purpose. === Use as a medicine === In addition to its use as a sweetener, all honey has antibacterial properties and may be used as a burn and wound dressing. Manuka, a strong tasting monofloral honey from New Zealand, is widely marketed for this attribute. The Qur-aan states that Honey is ' a drink of varying colour wherein is healing for men. Honey may also be used in homemade beauty remedies and as an inexpensive anti-acne treatment [http://www.pioneerthinking.com/nhb_beauty.html 1]. == Precautions == Honey is not always healthful. Because it is gathered from flowers in the wild, there are situations in which it may be toxic. (See: Grayanotoxin.) Rhododendrons and azaleas have nectar that is poisonous to humans though harmless to bees. The shape of the Azalea flower, however, makes access to nectar difficult for honeybees. And during the time at which Azaleas bloom, there are usually other flowers available which are more appealing to the honeybee. So lethal honey is rarely encountered. Nonetheless, honey, corn syrup and other natural sweeteners are a potential and acute threat to infants. Harmless to adults because of a mature person's stomach acidity, botulinum spores are widely present in the environment and are among the few bacteria that can survive in honey. Since an infant's digestive juices are non-acidic, ingestion of honey creates an ideal medium for botulinum spores to grow and produce sufficient levels of toxins to cause infant botulism. For this reason, it is advised that neither honey, nor any other sweetener, be given to children under the age of 18 months. Once a child is eating solid food, the digestive juices are acidic enough to prevent the growth of the spores. Equally sugars should not be fed to a puppy as this can cause her/him to go into a "sugar high". The sugar crash that follows may result in the loss of consciousness or even death. == Honey formation == Honey is laid down by bees as a food source. In cold weather or when food sources are scarce, bees use their honey as their sole source of nutrition. By contriving the bee swarm to make its home in a hive, mankind has been able to domesticate the insects. In the hive there are three types of bee: the single queen bee, up to 200 drone bees to fertilize her and some 20,000 to 80,000 worker bees. The worker bees raise larva and collect the nectar that will become honey in the hive. The Qur-aan states that the female bees are the ones who go out to collect nectar. They go out, collects the sugar-rich flower nectar and returns to the hive. As they leave the flower, bees releases nasonov pheromones. These enable other bees to find their way to the site by smell. Honeybees also release nasonov pheromones at the entrance to the hive, which enables returning bees to return to the proper hive. In the hive the bees regurgitate the nectar a sufficient number of times so that it is partially digested. It is then stored in the honeycomb. Nectar, as collected from a flower, is high in both water content and natural yeasts, which unchecked would cause the sugars to be fermented. After the final regurgitation, the honeycomb is left unsealed - bees inside the hive "fan" their wings creating a strong draught across the honeycomb. This enhances evaporation of much of the water from the nectar. The reduction in water content, which raises the sugar concentration, prevents fermentation. As removed from the hive by the beekeeper, whether clarified or not the honey has a long shelf life, neither fermenting nor turning rancid. The beekeeper encourages overproduction of honey within the hive so that the excess can be taken without endangering the bees. When sources of foods for the bees are short the beekeeper may have to feed the bees on sugar so they can survive. == Honey as a product == ===Honey processing=== *Comb honey A popular honey product. The honey is sold still in the wax comb. *Raw Honey Honey as it exists in the beehive or as obtained by extraction, settling or straining without adding heat. Raw honey contains some pollen and may contain small particles of wax. Local raw honey is sought after by allergy sufferers as the pollen impurities lessen the sensitivity to hay fever. *Filtered Honey Honey processed by filtration to remove extraneous solids and pollen grains. *Strained Honey Honey which has been passed through a mesh material to remove particulate material (pieces of wax, propolis, other defects) without removing pollen. ===Other descriptions=== *Blended Honey A homogeneous mixture of two or more honeys differing in floral source, color, flavor, density or geographic origin. *Churned Honey or Cremed Honey See whipped honey. *Crystallized Honey Honey in which some of the glucose content has spontaneously crystallized from solution as the monohydrate. Also called "Granulated Honey." *Honey Fondant See whipped honey. *Spun Honey See whipped honey. in addition, Organic Honey is honey produced, processed, and packaged in accordance with national regulations, and certified as such by some government body or an independent organic farming certification organization. == Related Topics == *food *drink *list of cocktails *list of recipes *glucose *nectar ta:தேன் Spreads Sweeteners bees Beekeeping
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Could anyone add nutritional information for honey? What is in it aside from water and sugar? Are there minerals in honey for example? ___________________ "Honey is apparently the only food that does not spoil. (Um...while this can be found on the inside of a Snapple bottle cap, Im not quite confident in the validity of this "fact"). As a beekeeper and someone who has been producing and learning about honey for close to 30 years, I can confirm the "fact" that honey does not spoil. Honey is naturally antibiotic and antiviral. The only way that natural airborn yeasts can become active is for water to be added to honey. As long as the moisture content remains under 18% nothing will grow in honey. Natural, raw, honey varies from 14% to 18% moisture content. Raw honey also contains enzymes that help in its digeston. Honey was found in one of the Egyptian pyramids, estimated at several thousand years old, and it was still good." These 2 passages need to be merged, de-personalised and edited to read in a more encyclopedic way I think User:Quercusrobur 18:40 Feb 7, 2003 (UTC) ___________________ I removed an erroneous implication that pasturization makes honey safer from botulinum sprores. The amount of heat that would be required to kill the spores would ruin the quality of honey. It would also be futile, since these spores are widely present in our environment. User:Pollinator 14:13, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC) ''Honey was found in one of the Egyptian pyramids, estimated at several thousand years old, and it was still good.'' - is this for real? any sources? User:202.156.2.35 14:32, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) :I suspect "good" is in the sense of "edible" not "high quality." I find it believable with that qualification. It's part of beekeeper folklore. User:Pollinator 14:37, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) - A cursory googling doesn't find any confirmation of this "honey in pyramid" story. I do find a reference to a child preserved in honey, but this has no confirmation and is actually mentioned on snopes.com as likely an (early) urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/tapping.htm User:Martijn faassen Some more googling on honey in the pyramids shows up this page: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/yuyatb.htm Not a pyramid (but valley of kings), and not honey (but initially misidentified as such). User:Martijn faassen :I just checked the latest edition of The Hive and the Honeybee, a voluminous standard reference on bees and beekeeping. It repeats the assertion, without attribution. Since there is a large panel of well respected scientists that put this together, I think they'd have dropped it, if it were merely a legend. :Quote: "...edible honey has been unearthed from the tombs of pharoahs after many thousands of years in clay pots" :Honey was a major part of the process of embalming, and was produced in large quantities in early Egypt, so it does not seem farfetched. Probably the best author to check for authoritative comment would be ''Eva Crane'', who has done a lot of work on beekeeping history, but I don't have any of her works at hand. User:Pollinator 18:05, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::A large panel of well respected scientists can still make mistakes, especially when it pertains areas not their own science, and especially when it involves "lore" knowledge. Note that 'tombs of pharaos' does not necessarily mean 'pyramids', as is asserted now on the article; I suggest we change that at least. ::I see this piece of lore repeated over and over on web pages relating honey, especially when detailing the amazing properties of it, but I see anything ranging from 'small residues' to 'jars of honey' to 'honeycomb' as what was found, and so far no references to an authorative source. It's also listed on 'amazing factoid' pages. ::One reference so far, is an archeologist T,M. Davies who is supposed to have found honey: ::http://www.beekmanandbeekman.com/honeytidbits.html ::but on the previously listed page: ::http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/yuyatb.htm ::we see a reference to a certain 'Theodore M. Davis', and that's the page talking about a jar of something that is initially *misidentified* as honey. As evidenced at http://anubis4_2000.tripod.com/SpecialExhibits/Davis.htm it turned out to be natron. Could that be the source of this bit of folklore? In that case honey wasn't found. Or was honey found on another occasion? User:Martijn faassen ::Found some more information; this time "Small pottery flasks, which according to the hieratic inscriptions on the side originally contained honey, were found in the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun", as mentioned here: http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/sacredinsect.htm ::If that's true, then that implies there *wasn't* any honey there anymore to be edible. User: Martijn faassen (A week later) Is any action going to be taken on this article? I think I showed convincingly enough there is no evidence honey was found in any ''pyramids'', and that the claims in general about finding edible honey in Egyptian tombs are - while an oft-repeated fact - somewhat dubious. My preference would be to change the article taking out the whole line referencing the archeological honey finds until more evidence comes along. If it turns out there ''were'' such finds, we can add it again. If we can confirm definitely that this is ''untrue'', then I believe this should be noted too, in the light of the many claims to the opposite. I don't want to change this page myself however, without at least some input from others. User: Martijn faassen Have you (or anybody) checked any of Eva Crane's historical works? She's about the most authoritative person on the planet as far as bee history goes. If it isn't there, delete. I suspect that there is some truth to the folklore, but the original reference would be old and would not be on the Internet. I'm sorry, I'm not near any university library, so I can't check the reference myself.User:Pollinator 20:50, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC) :I propose that while we're actually unsure about the tomb story, let alone the pyramid story, and this is stated as fact in the article but is based on hearsay but cannot be confirmed by either of us, we actually remove this. We can simply leave in that honey can be kept for a very long time, of course. --User:Martijn faassen 21:45, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::Since nobody objected I've removed the "edible honey in Egyptian pyramid" reference. If someone can come up with evidence of course we should re-add it. --User:Martijn faassen 23:45, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC) ===Vegans?=== I have no evidence but does the average vegan actually avoid honey? The ones I have encountered either object to farming methods or have an ethical problem with either consuming any creature or using and pontentially interfering with animals which have a cognitive ability. I would estimate that vegans who avoid honey are a fringe, but I will bow to any evidence proving the contrary User:Dainamo 22:48, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC) : http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/criteria.php : The manufacture and/or development of the product, and where applicable its ingredients, must not involve, or have involved, the use of any animal product, by-product or derivative. Such as: : Bee Products - bee pollen, bee venom, beeswax, honey, propolis, royal jelly : User:Greyweather 23:47, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC) : http://www.vegsource.com/jo/qa/qahoney.htm : Furthermore, the vegan position on honey is definitive. Honey was prohibited for use by vegans according to the 1944 manifesto of the British Vegan Society (veganism's founding organization), a position consistent with the requirement for full (vegan) membership in the [http://www.americanvegan.org/ American Vegan Society] since its inception in 1960. : User:Justinsomnia 04:02, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Honeydew == This surely merits being removed to its own article. User:GraemeLeggett 10:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC) :Strike that, I see what actually needs doing is correcting it.
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