honey is a sweet substance stored in the nest and spleen, which is collected by bees from nectar or secretion of nectar outside flowers, and mixed with bee enzyme solution.

honey is the main product of bees, and it is a sweet, sticky, transparent or translucent liquid. Honey mainly comes from nectar, followed by nectar and honeydew. Nectar is the secretion of nectar in plant flowers, and nectar is the excreta of aphids, leafhoppers, etc. Honey dew is the secretion of nectar outside plant flowers, the sweet pair secreted by bees sucking nectar, tree sap or nectar tubes of aphids and leafhoppers with tongue tubes, mixed with saliva by bees' mouthparts, temporarily stored in an safe bag, returned to the nest, vomited in the nest room, and brewed repeatedly.

Honey is honey. The nectar is sucked from the floral organs and nectaries of the source plants with a tongue straw, brought back to the hive, and vomited into the hive from the honey sac, and then repeatedly inhaled and vomited by bees, and the nectar mixed with invertase secreted by the honey sac is stored in the nest. Under the action of enzyme, the polysaccharide in nectar is decomposed into glucose and fructose, and the water content is reduced to about 2%, and the mature honey is basically formed. So far, people can obtain the finished raw honey by centrifugal action of honey shaker. From the perspective of food science, honey belongs to plant food.

Physical properties of honey

Pure and high-quality fresh and mature honey is a viscous, transparent or translucent colloidal liquid with sweet taste. Honey with rich fragrance and poor quality often has bitterness, astringency, sour taste or odor, and the temperature is below 1℃ or it is stored for too long, which is easy to be transformed into crystals of different degrees. Different honey sources have different physical properties.