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Honey: A Short Overview

Honey: A Short Overview

Stephen Debique

Sole Proprietor of Criterion 63 AE

Certified Apiarist of Apiary 1624

Turtle Village of Cumana

[email protected]

320-5445

What is Honey?

"Honey is the natural sweet substance produced by honeybees from the nectar of blossoms or from the secretion of living parts of plants or excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which honeybees collect, transform and combine with specific substances of their own, store and leave in the honey comb to ripen and mature.

- Codex Alimentarius (1989)

Composition

Fructose

Glucose

Sucrose

Disaccharides and Oligisaccharides

Acids

Proteins

Minerals

Enzymes

Glucose oxidase, amylase, invertase,.

Other components

Pigments, flavours, aroma compounds, choline, acetycholine

Physical Characteristics

Viscosity

Varies based on a number of properties

Thixotrophic (Leptospermum scoparium)

Temperature affects it

Density

Specific gravity greater than 1

Dependent on water content

Hygroscopicity

High

Surface tension

Low

With viscosity is responsible for foaming

Thermal properties

Low heat conductivity

Heat bath only

Colour

Clear and colourless to dark amber or black

Crystallization

Oversaturated sugar solution

Does not mean it has been adulterated with sugar

Medicinal Benefits

Medicinal Benefits

Summary

Definition of honey

Composition

Physical characteristics

Medicinal benefits

Questions