Rices Honey

The benefits of honey are universally accepted. Simple recipes using honey can offer natural relief to respiratory ailments, improve your energy and stamina, help to heal wounds, and reduce stress. In addition, pure honey is used in many beauty treatments as well. Preferred as a sweetener by the "carb" conscious dieter, honey is a natural alternative to using sugar.

Warmed honey has been shown to be a good cough suppressant

Honey is the perfect ingredient for your recipes! It contains vitamins and antioxidants, but is fat free, cholesterol free and sodium free!

Recently, studies indicate that honey has significant natural antioxidant properties.

Antioxidants help protect the skin from the damage of UV rays, and help you keep your skin looking young.

Honey can offer natural relief to respiratory ailments, improve your energy and stamina, help to heal wounds and reduce stress.

Antioxidants are important in staying healthy. The antioxidant called "pinocembrin" can be found only in honey.

Research has shown that unlike most other sweeteners, honey contains small amounts of a wide array of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and antioxidants. Honey, a rich source of carbohydrates, provides a quick source of energy.

A great healing aid, honey is known to combat infection.

Honey is very soothing when applied to minor burns. It also helps prevent scarring because it attracts and absorbs moisture.

Infants and Honey

Honey should not be fed to infants under one year of age. Honey is a safe and wholesome food for children and adults. Little ones do not have a fully developed immune system and will not derive the health benefits listed above as adults and older children receive.

Honey is...

• Heavy: a 12 oz. jar equals an 8 oz measuring cup.
• Sticky: when using honey in cooking, put oil in a cup or spoon so honey comes off easily
• Gooey: slightly warmed honey is easier to work with in cooking.
• Moisturizing: The bees mix the pollens and nectars and leave about 17% water. Foods prepared with honey stay moist & fresh longer than foods prepared with sugar.
• Energizing: Honey contains the simple sugars, glucose & fructose. It is assimilated into your body quickly and naturally, thus it is often used as a source of quick energy.
• Fat Free: Honey is a fat free food. In honey, there are 60 calories per tablespoon. Also there are traces of protein in honey (pollen floating in the honey provides the protein.) You will also find enzymes, vitamins & minerals in trace amounts in honey.
• Eat it Raw: honey tastes best & is best for you when it is uncooked. Rice’s Honey, never cooks our honey.

How do bees make honey?

When a honey bee takes nectar from a flower, she stores it in a "honey sack." When this honey sack is full, she returns to the hive, deposits the drop of nectar into the honeycomb, and evaporates the water out of the nectar by fanning her wings. Once the honey has aged, wax is used to seal it in the comb, which keeps it clean and safe.

A honeybee makes 154 trips for one teaspoon of honey.

A colony produces 60 to 100 pounds of honey a year.

To gather a pound of honey, a bee flies a distance equal to more than three times around the world. It takes two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

What kinds of bees are there?

There are three classes of bees: queens, workers, and drones. In a hive, there can be hundreds of drones, thousands of workers, but always just one queen.

The Queen

• She is the only bee able to lay eggs.
• She never leaves the hive and is constantly attended by workers.
• She only uses her sting against other queens.
• She lays up to 2,000 eggs per day.

The Worker

• Workers are all sterile females.
• If born during the active spring or summer months, they live for only four to five weeks; during winter, they live for a few months.
• They perform many tasks in and out of the hive, including: gathering pollen; making honey; feeding the other bees; producing beeswax; building honeycombs; and, protecting the hive.

The Drone

• Drones are males.
• Drones don't work, can't feed themselves, and have no stinger.
• They live for only about three months.
• Their only task is to mate with queens.

Why does honey have different tastes?

There are as many flavors of honey as there are varieties of flowering plants. Location and climate conditions also contribute to producing very different products.