Bee
honey is a alimentary viscosial, liquid and glacial product, which is produced
by honey-bees from blossom nectar or tissue fluids exuded by or being onto the
living parts of the plants. These fluids are collected by the bees,
transformed, combined with special substances, that bees liberate, stored and
left to ripen in honey-combs. Enriching honey by enzymes leads to an
extracorporeal digestion and as a consequence the quantity of easily absorbable
monosaccharides increases to the disadvantage of disaccharides, pentoses,
riboses and other carbohydrates, available in the nectar.
Honey has been
used as a nourishment for a long time and is nowadays used in different meals
and drinks as a sweetener or just in order to add a specific scent. In some
cultures it also possesses a religious or a symbolic meaning, being also used
in the folk medicine.
