So you love honey right? But do you know everything about the sweet liquid? Find out the shocking secret behind honey.
Next time you sit down to a yummy breakfast of bread and honey, you might like to forget that you're actually eating bee vomit.
But that's the terrible truth revealed in a new film from the American Chemical Society. In the video nasty, scientists explain that bees buzz from plant to plant, sometimes sipping nectar from more than 1,500 flowers every single day.
They store the nectar in a special second stomach, before flying back to the nest and throwing it up into the mouth of a "producer bee" - older insects which stay at home to make honey.
The sucrose in the honey is then broken down into fructose and glucose, before being vomited up again and then stored away in the familiar honey comb structures.
However, the bees aren't finished just yet.
They spend hours fanning the honey with their wings to help the water inside it evaporate, before essentially pooing a load of wax over the honeycomb to seal it.
Basically, that's a whole lot of puking for not very much honey.
"In her entire life, a bee might produce just 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey," the American Chemical Society said.
But that's the terrible truth revealed in a new film from the American Chemical Society. In the video nasty, scientists explain that bees buzz from plant to plant, sometimes sipping nectar from more than 1,500 flowers every single day.
They store the nectar in a special second stomach, before flying back to the nest and throwing it up into the mouth of a "producer bee" - older insects which stay at home to make honey.
The sucrose in the honey is then broken down into fructose and glucose, before being vomited up again and then stored away in the familiar honey comb structures.
However, the bees aren't finished just yet.
They spend hours fanning the honey with their wings to help the water inside it evaporate, before essentially pooing a load of wax over the honeycomb to seal it.
Basically, that's a whole lot of puking for not very much honey.
"In her entire life, a bee might produce just 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey," the American Chemical Society said.
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