The human mind regards anything that’s either sweet or golden to be something of value. The good thing is that honey has these qualities. According to the Christian Bible, Heaven is referred to as ‘The Land of Milk and Honey.’ In the days of yore, honey was considered to be the nectar of the gods and frequently used as a sacrifice in homage to the gods. Now, before you begin salivating, let’s have a look at what is entailed in creating this natural product meant for the gods, from the raw materials to the Flux Pumps that extract the finished product.
Raw Materials
Honey is the syrupy and sweet substance made by honeybees thanks to flower nectar. Honey consists of 76–80{87f2f78f9af2925e60af303f52e0fb79891f3874ec3ea766fc6cca70938f6d39} glucose, 17–20{87f2f78f9af2925e60af303f52e0fb79891f3874ec3ea766fc6cca70938f6d39} water, wax, fructose, pollen, plus other mineral salts. The colour, consistency and composition of the honey are contingent on the flower type from which the nectar was acquired. For instance, clover and alfalfa make white honey, lavender results in an amber hue, heather makes a reddish-brown colour. At the same time, sainfoin and acacia produce a straw colour in the honey.
Per year, an averagely-sized bee colony can between 27.2 and 45.7 Kg of honey. The honeybee hierarchical colony structure is three-tiered. One level consists of the worker class bees, about 50,000–70,000 bees. The lifecycle of a worker bee is three to six weeks, where every bee will gather about one teaspoon of nectar – 1.8 Kg of nectar translates to half a kilogram of honey.
The nectar is spurt into empty honeycombs from where other worker bees eat the nectar poured in the honeycombs, which adds more enzymes in the nectar and eventually ripen it to honey. When it has ripened wholly, it is then run back in the honeycomb for the last time before getting …