Did you ever imagine that there is a treasury in every drop of honey? Honey contains over 25 different sugars, fabulous in fact, each one having a different function in the human metabolism .Among them are Fructose (as dextro-fructose; fruit sugars), Glucose, Levulose, Trehalose, Meletoze, Dextrose(dextro-glucose; grape sugars), Maltose, Kojibiose, Isomaltose, Nigerose, Trehalose, Genitobiose, Laminaribiose,e.t.c. Many of these sugars do not occur in nectar but are formed by the bees during ripening.

Honey can be called the substance of divinity: the sweet nectar of the fragrant flowers which the bees collect, elaborate and than after depositing it in the cells of comb, evaporate by vibrating their wings for endless hours until it turns into the consistency of honey. Before it is evaporated, this nectar contains approximately 90% of water. So much of work is involved in processing this nectar that a bee in her entire life, of five weeks, can hardly make more than a teaspoon of honey. The combined flights of thousands of bees add up to seven million miles or 300 times around the earth to produce just one pound of honey. A bee travels often more than three miles in search of flowers.

Honey is a unique food. It is a living, organic, instant energy building food, an antioxidant containing all the essential minerals necessary for life: seven vitamins of the B complex group, aminoacids and enzymes. Honey goes into the blood stream in fifteen minutes, while ordinary sugar, a chemical saccharose, is completely indigestible, absolutely dead and harmful. It takes from 2-4 hours of hard work by the human system to invert and convert this chemical saccharose into simpler digestible form of glucosides, and than assimilate, exhausting the human system. Sugar is a poison, a 100% chemical, one of the 3 killer foods, as Dr. Paul Carlton wrote in his book "The three killer foods". Honey produces more energy than its weight and in doing so it uses part of the accumulated fat and cholesterol. It therefore is excellent in any weight reduction plan.

Honey is the oldest sweet known to mankind with a long, extremely interesting and fascinating history. Honey contains so many minerals, vitamins, enzymes and inhibine, a newly find antibacterial agent that acts like penicillin, and other antibiotics, killing microbes and germs that is correctly called a medicine; the elixir of life. It has been used as medicine for millenniums and is still used in prescriptions for cold. Honey is a mild laxative which helps digestion. Dr. Jarvis in his best seller book "Folk Medicine" recommends honey and apple cider vinegar for health and strength, taken many tines a day.

Honey improves the taste of food; try a teaspoon of honey in cooking and see how tasty and flavorful the food becomes.

Honey is a perfect food. Bible mentions honey 68 times. "The promised land that flows milk and honey". Why not use a glass of water with a little honey dissolved in it with a few drops of lemon juice as a thirst quencher instead of carbonated drinks, sodas, colas and the like which destroys the teeth and the lining of the stomach resulting in cavities, ulcers and the like?

In one of the most ancient books of medicine of India, "Yadjour Veda" (The book of life) as well as the book of "Manou" it is written that it is possible to prolong human life up to 500 years with a regimented diet of pollen filled comb and honey.

The great ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said that honey has an exceptional influence on the human organism.

Hippocrates, the father of scientific medicine prescribed honey in the treatment of colds, coughs, rheumatism, insect, serpent and animal bites, wounds and a host of other ailments. He considered honey of a great nutritive value and a must for beauty.

Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician, philosopher and author, in his books affirms that honey has remarkable therapeutic properties and his disciples followed a strict regimented diet of vegetables, almonds, nuts, figs and Honey.

The great sage of Central Asia, Abou Ali Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna, was utilizing honey and other product of hive successfully. In his medical book we find dozens of prescriptions based on honey. Among them we read that honey fortifies the heart, recreates vigor, helps digestion, improves the appetite, reinforces the memory, helps and improves sexual deficiency, lifts the spirit and is reservoir of eternal youth.