Honey, I Love You

 

 

    Honey has been delighting humans for more than 40 centuries.  In ancient Egypt, taxes were paid with it.  Honey found in Egyptian tombs from centuries past is still considered good.  Honey does not go bad.  Honey in early Greece and Rome honey symbolized fertility, love, and beauty.  In the Bible, this sublime nectar is dubbed “the heavenly food”.

    North American Indians called honeybees “white man’s flies” because they had been brought from Europe by the Colonists.  In Central America, though Indians had long kept bees.

    An estimated 211,600 beekeepers (mostly hobbyists) maintain apiaries in the United States.  South Dakota, North Dakota, Florida, and California are the country’s biggest honey producers.

    An estimated 3.2 million colonies of bees do their buzzing in the United States.

    Utah is known as the Beehive State.

    On average, each American consumes slightly more than a pound of honey every year.

    The average honeybee flies at a speed of 15 miles per hour.

    A hive of bees must fly 55,000 miles to produce a pound of honey.

    It takes approximately one ounce of honey to fuel a bee’s flight around the world.

    An average worker bee makes about ½ teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

   To make honey, bees drop the collected nectar into the honeycomb and then evaporate it by fanning their wings.

   Honeybees “dance” to communicate the direction and distance of nectar sources.

    Honey varies in color from clear to very dark, depending on the floral source and its location, as well as the climate.  Several varieties are produced in the United States.

    Honey makes baked goods brown faster and improves their shelve life.

    The fructose in honey makes it sweeter than sugar.  At 21 calories a teaspoon, honey is one and half times as sweet as sugar, which has about 15 calories per teaspoon.

    In Ancient times a fermented mixture of honey and spices and water were drunk for spirits.  Today we’re more likely to have ours in the form of Drambuie, a Scotch liqueur.

    All in all honey is great for a lot of things and is naturally good for you, at Kevton we Naturally Flavor our 100% Pure Honey.  We use it for basting, barbequing, baking and to naturally sweeten and enhance our teas.  Honey is good for you.

           

 

 

1.  How many flowers must be tapped to make a pound of honey?   (Two Million)

2. How many eyes does a honey bee have?  (Five)

3. How many wings does a honey bee have?   (Eight)

4. How many sides does each honeycomb contain?  (Six)

5. How many flowers does a honeybee visit in one collection trip?     (Fifty to a Hundred) 

6. Where is it written, “ And I come down to deliver them out of the land of  the Egyptians, and bring them up out of that land unto a good land……. A land flowing with milk and honey?   ( The Bible, Exodus 3:8)

7. What European ruler chose the bee as a symbol of his empire?  (Napoleon)