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Foraging for sustenance

Taking a look at the composition of honey

Seeing how honey is harvested

Honey bees are the only insects that produce a food that consumers eat. And we eat a lot of it. Here in the United States, the annual per capita consumption is around 1.7 pounds per person (eaten on its own, in cooking and baking, and as a sweetening ingredient in other food products).

Considering the U.S. population is around 328 million people, that’s a whole lot of honey. But the bees don’t do all that work just to feed us. It’s their own sustenance.

In this chapter, you discover why and how bees make honey, the good stuff that honey contains, and how it’s harvested. Plus, you find some interesting betcha-didn’t-know info about the bees themselves.