If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Does it ever make you wonder why so many people are drawn to something as unusual as bee keeping? Why an all too obvious answer is honey, there are a large number of other benefits associated with this hobby. [...]
Honey is not just one of the most delicious substances known to mankind, it is also incredibly valuable for nutrition and healing – and has been for thousands of years. Here are 5 modern day health benefits of honey. 1. Honey as a Hay Fever Remedy If you suffer from hay fever, locally produced honey [...]
Not all products found on the grocery shelves are the same. Today there is not just a huge amount of brands to choose from, but each food item itself can be broken down into additional categories. Upon close inspection you will see some items labeled as pasteurized, homogenized, heat treated, or some may have no [...]
Those familiar with the bible have most certainly heard of Canaan. It was known best as the land of milk and honey. What do milk and honey have in common? Both of these elements in their purest states are unpasteurized. Pasteurization was named in 1862, and was realized as a way to kill bacteria that [...]
Honey is probably the best recognised apicultural product, it is a substance that the bees produce by an elaborate procedure of refinement, where they ingest the nectar and deposit it in their stomach, then return to the colony to surrender it, disgorging repeated times;in this process fermentations, acid and albumen are added to the nectar. [...]
Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees (and some other species), and derived from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance, this includes, but is not limited [...]
It’s probably not too difficult to remember well what raw honey is when you associate it with uncooked vegetables and meat whereby any form of heating is avoided so as to preserve all the natural vitamins, enzymes and other nutritional elements. Raw honey is the concentrated nectar of flowers that comes straight from the extractor; [...]
While one of the greatest facts on honey storage is that it doesn’t spoil even with no preservatives and additives, liquid honey is susceptible to physical and chemical changes during storage; it tends to darken and lose some of its aroma and flavor. Over time, liquid honey also tends to naturally crystallise and become lumpy. [...]
How do you know if honey is raw or not? And why should you care? Truly raw honey is strained, not filtered, and is processed without using any heat at all- in the same state it was when it left the hive. Raw honey is better for your health than honey that has been heated, [...]
There will come a time when you will be tired of those creams, those astringents and those drugs that claim to make you look younger. In your attempt to scratch some years off your skin, the frantic search for the perfect drug become harder. Advertising is everywhere; new products emerge almost every day. Even word-of-mouth [...]
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