Things you didn’t know about honey! You can use it as a substitute for sugar, for certain medicinal properties, and to seal food


13. Honeycomb Snack

Don’t want to wait for honey to be processed and placed in a jar? A popular snack is eating the honeycomb in the raw. People have been eating raw honeycomb for centuries, and some beekeepers and honey harvesters will break off a piece of the hive and snack on it right there. The honeycomb is made of beeswax and has a texture similar to chewing gum. It gives the honey a slightly different pallet, allowing it to have its own unique flavor as opposed to mixing honey with other foods. Some chefs will add raw honeycomb to a meal as a garnish.

12. Life Sustaining

It’s been widely said that honey contains all of the substances necessary to sustain life. Honey contains sucrose and calcium, potassium, and iron and even vitamins B and C. Mix that with water, which honey also contains, and these are the building blocks for a sustainable food source. Now, that doesn’t mean a human can live solely off of honey, but it’s definitely a fantastic addition to your daily intake. According to some sources, a human can live about 2 months on nothing but honey.

11. Flight Of The Bumblebee

Bees are phenomenal creatures and are known for their work. Phrases like “busy as a bee” come to mind, and the phrase is fitting as the workload of a standard worker bee is astounding. In order to make 1 lb of honey, the whole hive must fly about 90,000 miles and visit over 2 million flowers. One bee alone will visit 50 to 100 flowers in one trip and only produce 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in their life, which is only about 122 to 152 days. Bonus fact: worker bees are all female. Male bees, or drones, protect the hive and mate with the queen, but all of the work making honey is done by the worker bees.

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