Many people love honey not only for its aroma and sweetness, but also for its valuable qualities, for its usefulness for the body. But how bees make their honey in hives, how it is formed - very few people think about it. In fact, this is a unique process, it is not without reason that the end result is such an amazing substance with a huge shelf life, like golden honey.
Instructions
Step 1
Raw materials for honey - flower nectar (sweet juice), which is formed on plants, herbs, flower baskets. The bee feels the aroma of nectar, which is released only by a certain group of plants and scoops a drop of it weighing literally 40 mg into its proboscis.
Step 2
While the bee flies to its hive, on the way it enriches a drop of nectar with its own saliva, which contains many enzymes. During this process, nectar is already starting to transform into honey in the goiter of the bee.
Step 3
Arriving in the hive, the collecting bee transfers the collection to the worker bee, it is also called the collector, who continues to work on the drop, bringing the saliva to the desired condition, then transfers the drop of honey to the honeycomb cell.
Step 4
Honey ripens in cells. At this time, there is an intensive evaporation of water from it. When the honey is finally ripe, the bees seal the honeycomb with wax caps, which indicates to the beekeeper that the product is ready.
Step 5
It happens that beekeepers take unripe honey (unsealed) from bees. But such a product is much worse stored, it contains a lot of undigested sucrose, more water than a sealed one. Such honey is not considered natural. Also, it is not considered natural honey produced by bees from sugar water, sweet juices.
Step 6
Natural honey can be of different types, depending on the plants from which it was collected by the bees. Honeycomb honey (sold in combs) is considered much more useful than the one that was pumped out, since, together with the usefulness of the honey itself, wax plates come with it, which are also very valuable in terms of their mineral composition and antiseptic effect.
