honey story
Honey Story
Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by bees and some related insects. Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants (floral nectar) or from secretions of other insects (such as honeydew). They do this by regurgitation, enzymatic activity, and water evaporation. Honey is stored in wax structures called honeycombs. The variety of honey produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the best-known, due to its worldwide commercial production and human consumption. Honey is collected from wild bee colonies, or from hives of domesticated bees, a practice known as beekeeping. It has antioxidant properties, as well as its antibacterial and anti fungal power.
Generally, there are 2 following kinds of Honey.
Capped Honey
Normally, the honey is stored by honey bees in their beeswax honeycomb; in framed bee hives, the honey is stored on a wooden structure called a frame. The honey frames are typically harvested in the late summer, when they will be most filled with honey. On a completely filled frame, the cells will be capped over by the bees for storage; that is, each cell containing honey will be sealed with a capping made of beeswax. Generally Honey Bee creates a wind blow by using their wings to remove the water vapor from honey and sealed with beeswax. Any kind of laboratory process is not needed for this kind of honey. This kind of honey has high nutrition value.
Un Capped Honey
The cells are uncapped because the nectar hasn’t been dehydrated to the level needed for long-term storage. For whatever reason, the bees did not finish drying those cells. The moisture content of this kind of honey is excessively high. So this kind of honey may get fermented quickly. That’s why some kind of laboratory process are needed to remove the moisture content from the honey for long term uses. Processed honey can’t be treated a Raw honey and due to some laboratory process mechanism nutrition value gets decreased. Generally the honey collected from forest or natural honey comb are not fully capped and due to some wrong process of collecting those honey, needs to go through laboratory process and filtration mechanism.