How honey is made

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A honeybee starts the honey make process by visiting a flower and gathering of some nectar. Many plants use nectar as a way encouraging insects to stop at the flower. In the process of gather nectar, the insects transfers pollen grains from one flower to another and pollinates the flower. Most flower nectars are similar to sugar water. (sucrose mixed with water) Nectars can contain other benefical substances as well. To make honey, two things happen.An enzyme, invertase, converts most of the sucrose into two six-carbon sugars, glucose and fructose. A small amount of the glucose is attacked by a second enzyme, glocose odidase, and converted into gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide. The gluconic acid makes honey an acide medium with a low ph that is inhospitable to bacteria, mold, and fungi, orgaisms we call microbes, while the hydrogen peroxide gives short-range protection against theese same organisms when the honey is ripening or is diluted for larval food. Honey bees also reduce the moisture content of nectar, which gives it a high osmotic pressure and protection against microbes. The physical change involves the removal of water, hich is accomplished by externally manipulating nectar in the mouth parts and then placing small droplets on the upper side of cells and fanning the wings to increase air movement and carry away excess moisture. hte effectis to make honey very stable food. It naturally resists molds, fungi and other bacteria, allowing it to last for years without regrigeration. I looked honey up due to how my sister kept trying to tel me that honey was made from beed crap. Happy Mylotting!!!!!