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National Pollinator Week June 17-23

Pollinator

National Pollinator Week is a Sweet Celebration
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National Pollinator Week officially kicks off June 17th, and we couldn’t be more excited to spend an entire week celebrating all pollinators for the great work that they do to keep our world beautiful and our meals delicious!

National Pollinator Week’s history began just over a decade ago when the U.S. Senate designated that a week in June be dubbed “National Pollinator Week,” bringing about greater awareness of the plight of our declining pollinators. Along with the humble honey bee, National Pollinator Week Continue reading National Pollinator Week June 17-23

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Bee’s job. Watch National Geographic Movie

Bee's Job

Every honeybee has a job to do. Some are nurses who take care of the brood; some are janitors who clean the hive; others are foragers who gather pollen to make honey. Collectively, honeybees are able to achieve an incredible level of sophistication, especially considering their brains are only the size of sesame seeds. But how are these bee’s job divvied up, and where do bees learn the skills to execute them?

Unlike in Jerry Seinfeld’s “Bee Movie,” real honeybees don’t go to college and get a job assignment from an aptitude officer upon graduation. Instead, they rely on a mixture of genetics, hormones, and situational necessity to direct them. Honeybees are born into an occupation, and then their duties continually shift in response to changing conditions in the hive.

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Honeycomb in Your Recipes – 4 Ways

Honeycomb

Honeycomb, the golden waxy secretions of the honeybees are edible?

Yes, together with the hexagonal, honey-filled cylinders, the honeycomb is not only perfectly safe to eat, it is stylish and tantalizing! In fact, honey aficionados, connoisseurs and chefs highly value comb honey in their recipes.

The enchanting honeycomb is sturdy yet fragile. It is composed of hexagonal cells with walls that are only 2/1000th of an inch thick and yet capable of supporting 25 times its own weight. The most distinctive feature of honeycomb is perhaps its texture – chewy from the wax and a little crunchy from bits of sweet crystallized honey. Continue reading Honeycomb in Your Recipes – 4 Ways

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Bee Health Needs Protection

Bee Health

Bees Deserve the Buzz

 

Everyone knows honey bees make honey, but their contributions hardly end there – one-third of the U.S. diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants and honey bees are responsible for an impressive 80 percent of that process. Bees are critical to the health of our planet and food chain, so Pahrump Honey Company is careful to apply best practices that support bee health. Continue reading Bee Health Needs Protection

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When stored properly, honey can last for centuries.

Store Honey

Experts from the National Honey Board explain that honey stays edible for decades, even centuries — but there’s a catch. Nature’s natural sweetener is highly susceptible to physical and chemical changes, and if stored incorrectly can darken, lose its aroma, flavor, and/or crystallize.

Still, that’s not to say the honey becomes inedible. As per the National Honey Board, crystallization is a natural process in which the glucose in honey precipitates out of the liquid honey. You can still consume it, but if the crystallization bothers you, spokespersons from the board says that placing the honey jar in warm water and stirring will dissolve the crystals.

The story of honey is older than history itself. An 8,000-year-old cave painting1 in Spain depicts honey harvesting, and we know it’s been used for food, medicine and more by cultures all over the world since.

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Oxidative Stress Rising Globally

oxidative stress

Oxidative Stress can be reduced by consumption of honey. A study recently published in the journal Molecules has given excellent scientific insight into the many health benefits of honey. The review published lends great credibility to what we’ve known for a long time – that honey has the ability to both slow and prevent the diseases of aging.

The journal stated:

“The global prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), atherosclerosis (plaque in the arteries), cancer and Alzheimer’s disease is on the rise. These diseases, which constitute the major causes of death globally, are associated with oxidative stress.”

The authors gave an excellent definition of what oxidative stress is and what it does to your body over time: Continue reading Oxidative Stress Rising Globally

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Honey Bees are not native to America

Introduction of the European Honey Bee

Honey Bees are not native to North America

You may have heard that if it were not for honey bees, flowers wouldn´t bloom, trees wouldn´t bear fruit and many other plants would disappear…… not necessarily; the honeybee wasn´t introduced to North America until the 17th Century with the arrival of Spanish and European settlers. These early settlers were able to grow their familiar crops for many years before the honey bee finally made its way to this continent. Continue reading Honey Bees are not native to America

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Honey is a bioactive product

bioactive Honey in comb

 

Whеn іt соmеѕ tо vаrіоuѕ рublісаtіоnѕ аnd оthеr rеаdіng mаtеrіаlѕ rеlаtеd tо hоnеу, а lоt оf іntrоduсtіоnѕ bеgіn wіth “Ноnеу іѕ а bioactive рrоduсt…аnd thе lіkе”. Іf thе wоrdѕ “bіоlоgісаllу асtіvе” wеrе nоt іn bоld, thеу wоuld рrоbаblу nоt bе оf аnу ѕресіаl іntеrеѕt tо уоu, unlеѕѕ уоu knеw ехасtlу whаt thеу mеаnt оr іf уоu wеrе а fаnаtіс аbоut hеаlthу fооd.

Іt іѕ quіtе lоgісаl tо соnѕіdеr іt а bіоlоgісаl рrоduсt, but whаt mаkеѕ іt bioactive ? Іn thе Іntеrnеt уоu соuld рrоbаblу fіnd fаr mоrе ехtеnѕіvе аnd dеtаіlеd mаtеrіаlѕ оn bіоасtіvе fооdѕ аnd рrоduсtѕ. Тhіѕ рublісаtіоn аіmѕ аt рrоvіdіng аn оvеrаll іdеа іn а fоrm thаt іѕ fullу рrосеѕѕеd аnd rеаdу fоr dіrесt соnѕumрtіоn аnd аbѕоrрtіоn bу thе rеаdеr (thаt іѕ ѕо tурісаl оf hоnеу іtѕеlf).

Frоm а ѕсіеntіfіс роіnt оf vіеw, fооdѕ саn bе сlаѕѕіfіеd іntо thrее ѕераrаtе grоuрѕ:

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What is honey made of?

Honey

Ноnеу hаѕ аn ехtrеmеlу fаvоrаblе еffесt uроn uѕ. Іt іѕ а bіоlоgісаllу асtіvе рrоduсt аnd hаѕ а vеrу rісh аnd соmрlісаtеd соmроѕіtіоn. Тhе ехасt соmроѕіtіоn оf hоnеу dереndѕ оn thе flоwеrѕ thаt bееѕ аrе роllіnаtіng. Еvеrуthіng іt соntаіnѕ іѕ nесеѕѕаrу аnd uѕеful fоr humаn hеаlth. Тhеrе аrе оvеr 300 ѕubѕtаnсеѕ fоund іn hоnеу, whісh fаvоrаblу аffесt thе mеtаbоlіс рrосеѕѕеѕ іn thе bоdу.

Іf уоu nееd mоrе dеtаіlеd іnfоrmаtіоn, hеrе іѕ а соmрrеhеnѕіvе lіѕt оf hоnеу іngrеdіеntѕ

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