Sweet Ambrosia
Satiate your thirst for guilt-free sweetness and fun facts about your all-time-fav honey.
Did you know that…
1. A single honey bee with sheer dedication and unparalleled effort will hop from flower-to-flower collecting nectars and pollen in its way. In total, a honey bee touches 50-100 flowers promoting pollination in a single trip before returning to its hive. Approximately, our industrious workers visit 225,000 flowers daily. As dedicated as it already sounds, it’s about to get even more amazing. Bees must collect nectar from an estimated 2 million flowers and fly for almost 55,000 miles to concoct a single pound of honey. What astounding hard work!
2. Honey is literally the God’s eternal ambrosia regarded for its extremely long shelf life. With proper storage, an airtight container to be specific, honey could last for almost thousands of years. Several findings reported thousands of years-old honey found in Egyptian tombs remain edible up to this day. This magical property is due to the unique chemical makeup of this golden syrup. Honey is naturally acidic and low in moisture, an extremely rigid and unwelcoming environment for bacteria. Thanks to our hardworking bees, we get to enjoy this sweet delicacy for millennia.
3. This golden goodness isn’t just figuratively golden, it is literally as valuable as it sounds. 11th century – Germany, honey regarded for its sweetening capacity is highly sought after. It is also used as a primary ingredient for making the quality beer during those times. Honey is even used as a form of currency. German aristocrats required peasants to pay taxes and fares using this high-valued commodity.
4. Honey is the Hebrew word for ‘enchant’. Parallel to its magical properties and therapeutic capabilities, such distinction is indeed a marvel to the ears.
5. Bees must not only be regarded for their hard work in performing tedious jobs but also for their cooperation and unity. The bee colony itself can be described as a “superorganism”, as bees consider themselves to be a part of an entire whole. These industrious fellows never work to support themselves individually, but rather move together as one to keep their colony alive
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