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1. How is honey made from bees' honey?

Honey is made from nectar collected by bees from flowers of flowering plants in the beehive. Bees collect nectar or secretions with a water content of about 80% from the flowers of plants and store them in their second stomach. Under the action of various invertases in the body, after about 15 days of repeated brewing, various vitamins, minerals and amino acids are enriched to a certain value. At the same time, the polysaccharides in the nectar are converted into monosaccharides such as glucose and fructose that can be directly absorbed by the human body. The water content is less than 23% and stored in the nest hole, which is sealed with beeswax. Thus, honey is brewed.

2. How is honey made?

Honey is a natural nutritional supplement. In addition to being edible directly, it can also be processed into special honey products to have better flavor and higher utilization value. In recent years, a wide variety of honey products have been produced through comprehensive processing, especially honey vinegar, honey yogurt, honey ice cream, honey sugar-coated nuts and solid honey. After being put on the market, they have been very popular with customers and have a very broad development prospect.

1. Raw material selection: The brewing of honey vinegar does not have strict requirements on the raw honey. Generally, it is better to choose honey of poorer quality and darker color, such as buckwheat honey, blackberry honey, etc.

2. Process flow: dilution--→ sterilization--→ inoculation--→ fermentation--→ aging--→ filtration.

3. Brewing method: ① Dilute honey. Add 4-5k to 1kg honey to dilute it so that the sugar content is between 15% and 19%. ② Sterilization. Heat the diluted honey to 75-80℃ and sterilize it for 30 minutes. ③ Inoculation. When the sterilized honey water is cooled to 26-28℃, add yeast, yeast, koji blocks and other fermentation agents that have been cultured in advance. ④ Fermentation. Ferment the inoculated honey water at 26-28℃ to convert sugar into alcohol. When the alcohol content reaches 6-7ml/100ml (i.e. alcohol content 6-7°), raise the temperature to 35-40℃, add 10% acetic acid bacteria, stir once in the morning and evening every day, and carry out acetic acid fermentation to convert alcohol into acetic acid. When the acetic acid content reaches 5g/100ml or more, the fermentation ends. ⑤ Aging. Add 1% salt to the fermented vinegar and store it for 30 days to increase the flavor of the honey vinegar. ⑥ Filter, sterilize, and package. Add 1% sodium benzoate, appropriate amount of flavor enhancer, sugar color, etc. to the aged honey vinegar, and then sterilize it before packaging and selling.

1. Raw materials: fresh milk, skimmed milk powder, buckwheat honey, agar, gelatin, pectin, edible flavor, streptococcus, lactic acid bacteria.

2. Raw material pretreatment: Honey should be fresh and fragrant and should not contain antibiotics. Fresh milk needs to have its fat content adjusted by adding skimmed milk powder to the fresh milk to adjust its fat content to 2%-4%. Heat the adjusted milk to 71°C for 15 minutes, or at 90-95°C for 3-5 minutes for sterilization.

3. Expansion and cultivation of bacterial strains: First, dilute the freeze-dried bacterial strains (2 parts each of streptococci and lactic acid bacteria, or 2 parts of streptococci and 1 part of lactic acid bacteria) with a small amount of sterile water, revive them at room temperature, inoculate them into 10ml of skim milk, seal them, and culture them at 35-40℃ for 3-4h. After solidification, inoculate them into 50ml of milk-honey solution for culture, and then inoculate them into 250ml of milk-honey solution for culture, expanding them 5 times each time, and so on, until the required amount is reached.

4. Inoculation and fermentation: Add 10% honey, appropriate amount of essence, agar, pectin, etc. to the sterilized milk, and when it is quickly cooled to 40°C, add 2%-3% of the fermentation bacteria, and then seal it and ferment it at 43°C for 5-8 hours. When the pH value reaches 4, the milk coagulates into a semi-solid and can be sold after cooling at 10°C.

3. How do bees make honey?

Bees collect nectar or secretions with a water content of about 80% from the flowers of plants, store them in their second stomach, ferment them for 30 minutes under the action of invertase in the body, and then return to the hive to spit them out. The temperature in the hive is usually kept at around 35°C. After a period of time, the water evaporates and becomes honey with a water content of less than 20%. It is stored in the nest hole and sealed with beeswax. In addition to glucose and fructose, honey also contains various vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.

4. How do bees make honey?

Honey is made by bees collecting juice secreted by plant nectar glands. Bees collect nectar or secretions with a water content of about 80% from the flowers of plants, store them in their second stomach, ferment them for 30 minutes under the action of invertase in the body, and then return to the hive to spit them out. The temperature in the hive is often maintained at around 35°C. After a period of time, the water evaporates and becomes honey with a water content of less than 20%. It is stored in the nest hole and sealed with beeswax. In addition to glucose and fructose, honey also contains various vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. It has little nutritional value. 1kg of honey contains 2940kcal of calories.

Honey is a supersaturated solution of sugar. It will crystallize at low temperatures. The crystals are formed by glucose, and the non-crystallized part is mainly fructose. Not only in the refrigerator, but also in winter, when stored indoors, crystals will occur. When heated, the crystals will turn back into liquid, which is not a quality issue. When honey contains a lot of impurities, it will not crystallize. People sometimes use whether it crystallizes at low temperatures to distinguish pure honey from honey with added sugar. However, filtering out impurities in honey can also prevent honey from crystallizing, so this method is not reliable.

5. How do bees make honey? Which part of the bee is it made of?

Honey is collected by bees from hundreds of flowers. Bees suck the honey into their mouths and spit it into the hive.