Honey is the most natural way to ingest sugar into your system, it is quickly assimilated into energy and is also a good for healthy skin and hair and general well being.  Honey contains many vitamins and antioxidants called pinocembrin that is only found in honey that helps to fight the growth of bacteria and assists in the body's way of repairing damaged tissues.

Modern science is now realizing that honey is a powerful anti-microbiological healing agent as its very low protein content and high acidity will severely restrict bacteriological attack by limiting the amount of nitrogen available that it needs to grow.

Honey is natural, pure and unadulterated it also tastes very nice too.

How Honey is Made

Bees make honey by first collecting pollen and nectar from flowers, field crops, clovers and blossoms off trees.   The nectar is a sweet liquid that attracts the honey bee and is collected by them in specially adapted honey sacks on their hind legs.

The honey bee will make several trips to all the various nectar yielding flowers when it leaves the bee hive.  As many as 60 flowers will be visited and the bee will end up carrying half its body weight with the collected nectar.

The honey bee will take the nectar to other bees in the hive and there the nectar will be processed by them.  The sucrose part of the nectar is converted to the purest form of sugar known as glucose and fructose, this is done via the bees munching it all up and spreading it out into honey combs.

This sugary mixture is high in moisture but with the warmth generated in the hive and also by the bees movements fanning the air with their fast beating wings, the nectar gradually looses the excessive moisture. When this takes place the bee will seal the end of the honey comb chamber with a wax deposit and the nectar will ripen into pure honey.  This honey is now a reserve food store that they will utilize during the cold winter months.

These honey combs are on frames that the beekeeper will extract from the hive and after the wax sealing caps have been removed the honey will be collected by a centrifuge extractor.

The honey is filtered so that any debris is removed and then it is poured into a settling tank so that all the bubbles rise to the surface and dissipate.  The well known firm of 'Rowse' that is based at Wallingford, UK will use great quality control measures to ensure that only the best honey from a batch is selected.

Flavor and purity being the main criteria that will win selection, it is then bottled and labelled and sent to the store for you and me to buy and use on our toast, croissants, desserts or just to enjoy neat as a special treat.

All thanks to the honey bee !

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