Comment on Honey
venonat@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoA big part of it is things that happen to the nectar while inside of the bees. That being said, synthetic honey does exist. They use specific types of bacteria to simulate what the bees introduce to it.
BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
To expand on this… Part of what happens to the nectar inside the bee’s honey crop is the addition of various enzymes (IIRC invertase is one. I don’t recall any of the others) that modify the sugars and other compounds in the nectar.
So nectar goes in, nectar + enzymes comes out, then the result is dried until the moisture content is low enough (~18% is what I was told as a beekeeper. Who knows how the bees measure it…)