Honey is a delicious viscous sweetener made naturally by bees for their own nourishment. The awesome process of making honey begins when the bees feast on flowers, collecting the flower nectar in their mouths.
This nectar then mixes with special enzymes in the bees’ saliva, an alchemical process that turns it into honey. The bees have added a special enzyme to the nectar that divides the sucrose into glucose and fructose -- two simple sugars that our bodies can easily absorb directly.
The bees carry the honey back to the hive, where they deposit it into the cells of the hive's walls. The fluttering of their wings provides the necessary ventilation to reduce the honey's moisture content, making it ready for consumption.
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