September is National Honey month. We hope you can impress your friends with these sweet honey facts!
Honey is the only food made by an insect and eaten by both the insect & humans. Honey has antibacterial & antiseptic properties Honey is used to make mead. Mead is an alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with water. Honey comes in different colors from transparent to very dark. Darker honeys have higher antioxidant levels. The oldest honey was found in King Tut’s tomb dating back 3,000 years.
It takes bees traveling about 55,000 miles to make a pound of honey.
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