Honey

Honey is a sweet and viscous fluidlepki płyn, ciecz produced by bees and other insectsinsect: owad from the nectar of flowers. The flavor and color of the substance is largely determined by the type of the flowers from which the nectar is gatheredto gather: zbierać, gromadzić. Common flavours of honey include orange blossomkwiat pomarańczy honey, tupeloeukaliptus honey, cloverkoniczyna honey, blackberryjeżyna, and blueberryborówka amerykańska, czarna jagoda honey. In Australia, Tasmanian leatherwood honey is considered a delicacyprzysmak for its unique flavour. Manuka honey from New Zealand is said by some to have more special healingleczenie, gojenie się properties than other honeys, therefore sells at a premium pricepo cenie wyższej niż normalna.

Similar to honey, and usually bottled and sold as honey is honeydewspadź, which is made from the sweet secretionssecretion: wydzielina of aphidsmszyce, scale, or other plant sapsok suckingto suck: ssać insectsinsect: owad. Honeydew from pinesosna forests has a "pineysosna" taste and is prized forto prize for: cenić za medicinal use in Europe and Turkey.

A side-effectefect uboczny of bees collecting nectar and pollenpyłek kwiatowy to make honey is pollinationzapylanie, which is crucialdecydujący, kluczowy for floweringkwitnienie plants.

The main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, spreadingto spread: smarować on bread or toast, and adding to various beveragesbeverage: napój such as tea. Because honey is hygroscopichigroskopijny, wodochłonny (drawing moisturewilgoć from the air), a small quantityilość of honey added to a pastryciasto recipe will retard it from becoming staleczerstwy, nieświeży. Raw honey also containsto contain: zawierać enzymes that help in its digestiontrawienie. It also containsto contain: zawierać several vitamins and antioxidants.

Honey is a main ingredient in the beverage, meadmiód pitny, which is also known as "honey wine".

Honey is also used in traditional folkludowy medicine. It is an excellent natural preservativekonserwant, środek konserwujący. Honey is, however, not always healthy. Because it is gatheredto gather: zbierać, gromadzić from flowers in the wild, there are certain times and places when the honey produced is toxic, see Grayanotoxin. Rhododendrons and azaleasazalea: azalia, różanecznik have nectar that is poisonous to humans although harmless to bees, producing the toxic honey. In some areas of the world the hiveshive: ul are emptiedto empty: usuwać immediately after the floweringkwitnienie season and cleaned of any residuereszta, pozostałość to prevent accidental poisoning. Such poisonous honey is very rarely encounteredto encounter: napotykać, spotykać. The shape of the Azalea flower makes access to nectar difficult for honeybees, and during the time at which Azaleas bloom there are almost always other flowers in bloomkwitnący that are more appealingatrakcyjny, pociągający to the honeybee.

Honey (as well as other sweeteners) is also potentially extremely dangerous for infantsinfant: niemowlę. This is because, when mixed with the non-acidic digestive juicesnon-acidic digestive juice: niekwasowy sok trawienny of an infant it creates an ideal mediumśrodowisko, ośrodek for botulinum sporesbotulinum spore: przetrwalnik bakterii jadu kiełbasianego to grow and produce toxin. Botulinum spores are among the few bacteria that survive in honey, but also are widely present in the environment. While these spores are harmless to adults, because of stomach acidity, an infant's digestive system is not yet developed enough to destroy them, and the spores could potentially cause infant botulismzatrucie jadem kiełbasianym. For this reason, it is advised that neither honey, nor any other sweetener, should be given to children under the age of 18 months.

Honey does not spoil. Because of its high sugar concentration, it kills bacteria by osmotically lysing them. Natural airborne yeastsdrożdże w powietrzu can not become active in it because the moisturewilgoć content is too low. Natural, rawnieprzetworzony, naturalny, honey varies from 14% to 18% moisturewilgoć content. As long as the moisturewilgoć content remains under 18%, virtually no organism can successfully multiply to significantznaczący amounts in honey.

The study of pollens and spores in rawnieprzetworzony, naturalny honey (Melissopalynology) can determine floralkwiatowy, roślinny sourcessource: pochodzenie of the honey. Because bees carry an electrostatic chargeelekrostatyczny ładunek, and can attract other particlesparticle: cząsteczka, drobina, the same techniques of Melissopalynology can be used in area environmental studies of radioactiveradioaktywny, promienitwórczy particlesparticle: cząsteczka, drobina, dustkurz, or particulatezłożony z cząstek pollution.

Almost all vegans avoid honey because it is technically an animal product.

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