Ten Interesting Facts About Honey

September is National Honey Month. Now I know most of us think of Winnie the Pooh when we think of honey. What? You do not think of Pooh and his many adventures to secure honey for his honey pots? What do you think about then when you think or see honey? This article might help.

Interesting facts about honey #1)

Honey is a Hebrew word meaning enchant. Initially it was a culinary sweeter, but now it is also recognized world wide as a healing ingredient in medicinal treatment.

Interesting facts about honey #2)

Honey dates back for 150 million years. Honey is written about in hieroglyphics. Egyptians would used honey as a form of payment, like the Aztecs used cocoa beans (mentioned in another article of mine). Honey was fed to their sacred animals. It was often offered as a tribute.

Interesting facts about honey #3)

The Bible mentions honey as well. In Exodus 3:17 "17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites-a land flowing with milk and honey." The land where Palestine and Israel are today, to be exact.

Interesting facts about honey #4)

Greeks and Roman referred to honey as a food fit for the gods. Some are of the belief the honey is the ambrosia of the gods. Greek custom was to offer honey to the gods and deceased spirits, this tribute kept one out of harm's way and in a spirit or god's good graces.

Interesting facts about honey #5)

A honey wine was developed, and largely consumed by many. Its given name was mead. How many romance novels have written about mead? Now you know it is honey wine. Norsemen sweetened their beer with honey.

Interesting facts about honey #6)

Honey was so in demand in the eleventh century that it was a stipulation for German peasants to offer their feudal lords payment in honey and beeswax.

Interesting facts about honey #7)

With the arrival and development of the American Colonies in the 17th century, honey was carried even further weight. Honey was used in the making of cement (crystallized sugar-not something, I would want to be bopped on the head with...). Moreover, it was also used in food preparation, to make beverages, as a fruit preserver, in furniture polish and varnish as well as for medicinal purposes.

Interesting facts about honey #8)

With the tip on how colonists used honey as a fruit preserver, honey discovered to soak up moisture rapidly. To have cake and cookies last longer, and retain that moistness, substitute one-half of the required sugar with honey. After all two primary ingredients of honey are fructose and glucose, which are sugars.

Interesting facts about honey #9)

Have allergies? Take a teaspoon a day of a honey made from the region where you reside and it will aid in developing resistance to pollen thereby reducing your allergies. This works in animals, too. Not a teaspoon, but a little dollop in their mouth can help with an animal's environmental allergies.

Interesting facts about honey #10)

Have you burned your skin? Received a cut or abrasion? Mix honey with cod liver oil and place over the infected area. Bandage it up or that will be just too sticky of a mess. Change daily and it will assist in the healing process. Have chapped lips? Apply honey!!!