The golden wonder of Honey.

No one has ever discovered a purer and sweeter food than honey. its chief ingredient being Levulose or fruit sugar. Every honey has its own individual taste. it would take a lifetime to discover the vintages that bees distil from the thousands of species of nectar bearing plants. the concentration of sugars is so high in honey that bacteria cannot live in it. an egyptian tomb was said to have held a honey for 3300 years. but was still very pure. if diluted with water it ferments. the honey comb product of the bees own gland can be imitated. Thus honey is the most ancient and mysterious food. its a pinnacle of insect evolution. Nature has adapted the forms of flowers to entice bees, and the bodies of bees to fit and pollinate the flowers and to use the pollen and nectar. so many species of flowers would have been extinct but for the bees. bees it is said is loyal to one type of flower at a time so makes one kind of honey at a time. One pound of honey requires a bee to make thirty seven thousand bee trips from flower and back. Bees usually kill themselves with work. it is the destiny of every good worker to die flying, struggling to bring back one last load to the hive. After two to six weeks of peak exertion she dies or drops unnoticed. it takes three hundred pounds of honey to keep one colony alive. to gather the extra that we rob from the hives they have to fly many million miles more. Each drop of honey is an ocean of minerals for it is found to contain traces of iron, copper, manganese, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, proteins and vitamins. even diabetics can tolerate honey while table sugar is harmful. it helps babies to retain calsium and grow stronger. the most famous of honeys is Hymettis honey it is made of the nectar from the little wild flower called thyme.
Honey is a gift from thousands of ardent and dedicated little lives. it is the mystery evident that the bees and flowers live for such mutual good. It is a slow formed perfect drop upon a growing tip of evolution. to take that drop upon our tongue is to partake of a sacrament with nature.