I was busy enjoying my breakfast this morning when my mum came along with a bottle that contains a brownish gelatinous liquid inside. Curiosity aroused inside me as I picked up the bottle and was examining the substance. I started parambulating within my brain, 'what is inside this substance that gives it this flavour which can make bees die just to protect it from we the humans that will not relent in harvesting this substance either by employing our 6th sence in getting it or using our hard earned currency to purchase this substance called HONEY.
The honey as we all know is produced by bees from the nectar they suck from flowers. It is produced by two processes namely REGURGITATION and EVAPORATION. Regurgitation is the expulsion of materials from the mouth, pharynx or esophagus. The honey expelled is stored as primary food source in wax honey combs inside the beehive. These honey forms when enzymes, invertases and digestive acids in the intestine of a bee hydrolyzes sucrose from nectar to give the monosaccharide; glucose and fructose. The bees do their regurgitation in group and after that, it is aqueous in nature, that is when the process continues with EVAPORATION to reduce the high amount of water.
Micro organisms do not grow inside the honey but sometimes they contain endospores of a bacterium called CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM, which develops into a bacteria that produces harmful toxins inside the intestines of infants.
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