Honey is a useful product of natural origin, and it is used in many areas of life: in cooking, in cosmetology, in medicine. Honey is 80% fructose and sucrose. 20% of its content is amino acids, water and minerals. Honey is considered a sterile product, and useful substances in it are stored for a long time.
There are different legends about honey. The first of them confirms that the famous Hippocrates lived to be 100 years old due to the fact that he constantly ate honey. This product was then not in vain called the food of the gods, because many people became famous for their own longevity.
Another version says that the philosopher Democritus, who wished to commit suicide, managed to achieve his dream. He planned to die on the holidays and delayed until the desired day by inhaling the honey scent. As soon as he stopped performing such a ritual every day, he immediately died.
Cleopatra was the first woman to use honey as a cosmetic product. She was the first to understand that honey makes the skin soft, velvety and relieves wrinkles. Recipes for youth and beauty from Cleopatra are popular among women all over the world to this day.
1. "Honey" is a word that came to us from Hebrew. It means "magic" in translation.
2. In ancient Rome and ancient Egypt, honey was an alternative currency. Among the Slavs, fines were then paid only with honey, money and cattle.
3. Honey was added to the diet of astronauts as an obligatory food product.
4. Natural honey contains almost all trace elements, and by its own composition it resembles human blood plasma.
5. Honey has the ability to release serotonin, which will help improve mood and add happiness. This delicacy contains the amino acid tryptophan, which will provoke an increase in insulin. It will make up for the lack of those hormones that affect the psycho-emotional state of people.
6. In ancient times, residents of hot countries used honey as an alternative to the refrigerator. Then they smeared fresh meat with honey and buried it in the ground.
7. Every American eats an average of 1.2 kg of honey per year, all Frenchmen eat 700 g each, and every inhabitant of Russia only 200 g.
8. In Spain, honey was specially added to the breast milk substitute for babies who suffered from anemia.
9. The story of the emergence of honey is closely intertwined with the ritual of death. Everything lies in the fact that the ancient priests used this product as one of the components for embalming the mummy. So honey nectar became an expensive commodity in the Egyptian market.
10. Thanks to numerous experiments, it became clear that with constant consumption of honey, immunity increases. A product of this type is considered a natural antiseptic that can fight harmful bacteria in the digestive tract.
11. China became the record-breaking state in honey production. The most popular type of honey there is buckwheat.
12. Expensive honey is created in Israel. For 1 kg of Life Mel honey you can pay more than 10,000 rubles there. This is due to the fact that honey bees in this country feed on extracts of Echinacea, Eleutherococcus and other plants with strong immunostimulating functions.
13. In ancient Egypt, honey was also used for pickling food. It was also added to the first beer on earth.
14. Honey can remove alcohol from the body. The consequences of violent parties are easily removed with a sandwich with honey, which is eaten on an empty stomach in the morning.
15. One bee must fly about 100,000 flowers in order to produce 100 grams of honey.
16. 460 thousand km is the distance covered by bees at the moment when they collect nectar to create 1 liter of honey.
17. Most of all honey per capita is produced in Ukraine. This is 1.5 kg.
18. Honey should not be heated above 50 degrees. In a different situation, he will lose all his own useful properties.
19. In certain areas of Greece there was a custom: the bride soaked her fingers in honey and made a cross before entering a new home. This provided the sweetness of her marriage, and especially in her relationship with her husband's mother.
20. A special form of "drunk honey" is blue honey, which people prepare by immersing pieces of mushrooms in ordinary non-toxic honey, which cause changes in the psyche.
21. Honey is found in many modern drinks with European roots. These include mulled wine, grog and punch.
22. Darker honeys contain more nutrients than lighter ones.
23. The phrase "honeymoon" was created in Norway. There, the newlyweds in the first month after the wedding had to eat honey and drink honey drinks.
24. When opening the grave of Tutankhamun, an amphora with honey was found in the tomb.
25. Honey is equally used for obesity and weight loss.
26. Honey collected from swampy heather, azalea, rhododendron is called "drunk honey". The person who first tasted this kind of honey immediately became drunk. Such symptoms disappeared only after 2 days.
27. The key processes that take place during the formation of honey are the decomposition of sucrose into fructose and glucose, as well as the evaporation of water.
28. The earliest image of bees collecting honey dates back to 15 thousand years ago. This drawing was on the wall of one of the caves in the east of Spain.
29. In Greek mythology, Cupid moistened his own arrows in honey. Thus, he filled the hearts of lovers with sweetness.
30. For many thousands of years, honey and fruits were considered the only treats in Europe.
