Honey is a sweet substance stored in the nest and spleen, which is collected by bees from nectar or nectar secreted outside flowers and mixed with bee enzyme solution after full brewing.

Honey is the main product of bees. It is a sweet, viscous, transparent or translucent liquid. Honey mainly comes from nectar, followed by nectar and honey dew. Nectar is the nectar secreted by plant flowers, manna is the excrement of aphids and leafhoppers, and nectar is the nectar secreted by plant flowers. Bees suck nectaries of plants, sap of trees or sweet juice secreted by honey tubes of aphids and leafhoppers with tongue straws, mix saliva with bee mouthparts, temporarily store it in honey bags, return home, spit it out in the nest room and brew it repeatedly.

Honey is that bees suck nectar from the floral organs and nectaries of nectariferous plants with tongue straws, bring it back to the hive, spit it into the hive from the honey sac, and then repeatedly inhale and spit it out by bees, and store the nectar secreted by the honey sac mixed with invertase in the nest. Under the action of enzyme, the polysaccharide in nectar is decomposed into glucose and fructose, and the water content is reduced to about 20%, which basically forms mature honey. Up to now, people can get the finished raw honey by centrifugal action of honey shaker. From the perspective of food science, honey belongs to plant food.

Physical properties of honey: pure and high-quality fresh and mature honey is a viscous, transparent or translucent colloidal liquid with sweet taste and rich fragrance. Inferior honey is often bitter, astringent, sour or smelly. When the temperature is lower than 10℃ or the storage time is too long, it is easy to transform into crystals of different degrees. Different types of honey sources have different physical characteristics.