Honey- As Food, Medicine, Cosmetics & Honey Recipes

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Sweetness in appropriate food is normally desired by most of human beings around the world. Bulk of sweetness is obviously the contribution of sugar and jaggery that comes from sugarcane juice and/or beet juice. A fraction of it comes from palm sap and honey.

Honey is supplied to us by a type of small insect called bee. They collect nectar from various flowers, leaves or sap of various plants, convert them into honey and store those sweet liquid food for their own consumption. However, depending on area or region, collection of honey usually becomes much more than what the bees of a particular colony need hence human beings collect those surplus honey for their consumption.

Honey, apart from giving us its sweet taste and aroma is much better than other sweetening agents like sugar or jaggery in respect of nutrition as well as the medicinal virtues are concerned. Besides being medicine itself it is a good carrier as it carries various nutriments directly into tissues.

This book basically deals with various aspects of honey and how best honey can be utilised to produce various other items of food needed by us. This aspect has been highlighted since honey is yet to be a popular food item or sweetening agent in India unlike western world despite of the fact that India is one of the important honey producing countries of the world. If use of honey is encouraged, it will not only add to our national health but also encourage beekeeping which shall ensure better pollination of various crops thus increasing agricultural production to greater extent with almost identical inputs. Increase in beekeeping programme shall also give boost to our rural economy ensuring more employment generation and additional income to our rural folks in terms of marketing of honey and production bee boxes.

Entire system is interdependent to each other but let us here give thrust on honey alone, the sweet viscous liquid that gives us so much in so many ways.

Honey was held a high place in the esteem of mankind, all over the world, from the earliest time. Honey is a sacred substance. Its use was prescribed in all religious ceremonies, from birth till the old age. This book offers the ways to use this sacred liquid appropriately thus each page of this book should be considered as sacred.