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Honey
Bee
Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees from the
nectar of flowers or secretions of living parts of plants or
excretions of plant sucking insects. The bees collect, transform
and combine with the enzyme invertase containing the saliva of
bees and stored in the honeycomb where mature. In addition honey
is a secretion that was previously consumed by them.
The technique involves the extraction of honey from the combs of
the hive is known as beekeeping.
Physical, chemical and organoleptic properties of honey are
determined by the type of nectar that bees collect
Honey has its qualities recognized and used by humans since time
immemorial as food and to sweeten naturally sweetened with the
power of two times higher than sugar cane.
There are several historical references to this substance.
Besides the biblical quotes, many other peoples as the ancient
Egyptians or Greeks, for example, refer to honey as a sacred, to
serve as a way of paying taxes. Excavations in Egypt over 3000
years of honey samples were found perfectly preserved in jars
slightly covered. There are also records in prehistoric cave
paintings of the use of honey.
Are known various types of honey that depend on the flower used
as a source of nectar and the type of bee that produced it, but
as they made in the amount of nearly three times what they need
to survive, if possible, first, collected in excess of that man
and later made the domestication of bees for the specific
purpose of getting your honey, technically known as apiculture..
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