What Benefits Can Honey Provide for Your Skin? The health benefits of raw, organic honey have been well documents over the last few decades. Organic honey is jam packed with vitamins, nutrients, and easily absorbed carbohydrates and sugars that make it a super food for both athletes and the everyday individual. But what about our…
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Information You Should Know About Raw Honey When we think of honey, we often imagine those bear shaped bottles with amber colored liquid inside. While this type of honey is great for adding sweetness to our tea, it can often contain added sugar and not have the many, many nutrients that honey that is unprocessed…
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Vanilla-Honey Cough Drop Recipe Honey has the amazing ability to sooth our throats while also opening up our nasal passageways. Putting honey in tea is often an effective remedy during cold and flu season, helping to calm our coughs and help our throats heal. Sometimes, however, we can’t take our tea with honey on the…
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Can Honey Be Considered a “Vegan” Food? Veganism is when and individual does not consume or use any animal products or by-products. Individuals who choose veganism, either for ethical or dietary reasons, will not eat products such as eggs, milk ,or butter, nor will they use products that are produced by animals or contain their…
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Why this Super Food is Great for Active Individuals Honey is a sweet, thick, sticky liquid that is produced by bees from flower nectar and pollens. Although honey is comprised of between 70 and 80 percent sugar, it is easy for the human body to absorb and – true organic honey – is packed full…
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Perils Facing the Bee Population and How We Can Help There are many facts about honey bees that are common knowledge – bees produce honey, use stingers to protect themselves, and are a very important part of growing flowers as well as many of the fruits and vegetables we buy and eat every day. Something…
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A Delicious Side Dish for Your Next Barbeque Using Honey Cookout season is almost here which means, before we know it, our backyard will be filled with hungry friends and family members. Baked beans are a cookout staple and everyone has their favorite recipe. A great summertime bean recipe is one created by none other…
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More Information on Manuka, its Flowers and its Uses Manuka honey is a much sought after type of honey that is almost exclusively produced in New Zealand. This type of honey is derived from two different yet closely related plants that are both commonly called manuka. Although both plants are capable of producing this honey,…
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What is the Difference and Why is it Important In the world of honey, not all kinds are created equal. When we think of all the health benefits that “real” or organic honey offers, it can be easy to see why consumers are missing out by purchasing “fake” honey. Bee pollen is always present in…
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Beekeeper Falls Victim, Hives Stolen A Taranaki, New Zealand beekeeper has lost thousands of dollars over the last few weeks in stolen honey and honey bee hives. Stephen Black, the owner and operator of Bees-R-Us, began the bee season with 20 hives, each measuring 2 meters tall that were harvest ready, being stolen from a…
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Alternatives to Processed Energy Gels Energy gels are a great and convenient source of energy and carbohydrates for endurance athletes, especially those who participate in long distance races. Conventional sport-specific gels are created from maltodexrin, which is derived from the starch found in potatoes, rice, wheat or, most commonly, corn. Although maltodexrin is natural, it…
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Shark Tank is a reality competition show which puts entrepreneurs in front of a panel of “shark” investors in an attempt to get them to invest in their product. On a recent episode of Shark Tank, 10-year-old Mikaila Ulmer presented her business “Bee Sweet Lemonade,” a child’s lemonade stand that uses bee honey as a…
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A Delicious Dinner Recipe Using Honey Kabobs are an easy weeknight meal, and honey has a number of great benefits for our health. So, why not combine these two and make a great meal for your next party? A buttermilk and honey marinade keeps the chicken tender while adding great flavor and putting these delicious…
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The Benefits of Honey for Your Animals In many ways, food is considered medicine for our and our pet’s bodies – our bodies have evolved to protect us, take in good nutrients, and expel the things that can harm us. Because of this, what we eat is very important to our quality of life, and…
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Bee Products and Their Benefits Whether we know it or not, we have likely encountered honey bee products on our local grocery store shelves. While honey is the most common and recognized of these products, there are a number of other substances that honey bees create that can be useful in our lives. Bees wax,…
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