e-shopping How to buy the best on the net. This week: honey

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 25, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Do you know how bees make honey? Sufficiently well to explain it in convincing detail to an inquisitive four-year old? I didn't, either, until I found myself researching where to buy honey on the internet.

Contrary to what I always thought, it has nothing to do with the pollen you see on bees' legs. It comes from the nectar the worker bees collect in their sacs. To become honey, it has to go through two processes. First, it has to be dried so that it becomes more dense. Second, it has to be turned into fructose and glucose, which bees do with an enzyme they produce called invertase. Then they ...

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