Description

Honey is a sweet, viscous natural food substance produced by bees. Bees produce honey from sugary plant secretions (flower nectar) through organized processes and special enzymatic activity, and it obtains its final form after water evaporation. Honey is stored in waxy structures called (honeycombs). Bees produce a variety of honey that differs in color, taste and smell (depending on the bee’s food source). Because of human demand and consumption around the world, honey is collected in commercial quantities from wild bee colonies, or from domesticated beehives, a practice known as beekeeping. Many archaeological discoveries and excavations have indicated that man has known and benefited from the nutritional and medicinal properties of honey for about eight thousand years.