PURE NATURAL HONEY, MOSTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Today, honey in Africa if not all in parts of the world is one commodity that is easily and readily put to doubt by prospective buyers on the genuine of its state of naturality and priority.

The simple reason for this is basically hinged on the fact that from the past, honey is provided by the wild comb hunters who goes about in the jungles to collect honey in the unprofessional way they know and later adulterate. Until in the recent times when practical beekeeping has started springing up in many countries, the perpetual adulteration of honey collected by these comb hunters has left the equivalent degree of perpetual doubts on the minds of prospective buyers as to the genuine pure natural state of what is called honey to them.

Frankly, few of these wild comb hunters will normally sell their collections without adulteration, but this unadulterated honey will still show by odour and slight taste of what has been collected through heavy fire works.

Adulteration is usually perfected by pounding sugar canes and squeezing out the liquid contents which would be boiled later, secondly by putting a lot of granulated or cubed sugar into quantity of water and boil which will eventually turn thick and brownish in colour having the viscosity similar to honey. The adulteration is then perfected by mixing the content severally with the collected honey from the wild which has been harvested in the crude way resulting to what is known as molasses.

In some remote villages in the northern Nigeria, it is alleged that a type of small stones can be put into a big pot with water added and boil that will eventually turn into honey like liquid also used in adulteration. The allegation has not been proved in any way by me but people from this region have always affirm it.

The above brief explanation can then answer the mostly asked questions on the purity and natural state of honey. These questions are not many, but they must similar in content. numbers may vary from country to country, and from continent to continent depending on what obtains in different lands of the world, but they must be similar in content.

It is a known fact that in Europe, America, Australia the beekeeping vast knowledge has continue to provide pure natural honey in these places massively to their departmental shops and shopping malls where every body has read so much on pages of information channels including the internet about the honey named brands available in their land which can not be anything but honey.

On the other hand, it is still a battle contending with answers to charade of questions often thrown at Beekeepers in other places such as in Nigeria.

1. People often ask “is this original honey”, there is the need for corrections to questions asked sometimes before responding answers, for a good example, the question above should have come in the term of “Is this pure natural honey?”

The answer from Beekeepers should be as follows; yes, it is pure natural honey, the word original is inappropriate, Beekeeper, honey is hygienically harvested, extracted and thoroughly filtered devoid of artificial sweeteners, additives, emulsifiers whatsoever.

2. Another often asked question is how must honey taste?”. I have endured through the times in providing the simple answer as the following:

Pure natural honey must give a natural appealing taste on the tongue with the natural sweetness perceived and appealing calmness must naturally accompany the qualities above to the sense of smelling and taste.

3. Why not dark and thick?, funny question often asked is the above and in satisfying the question answer comes thus;

The majority of samples of what we think to be pure natural honey are not; they are either crude harvested honey from wild comb hunters who by their untrained manners have destroyed greater percentage of the antiseptics, antibiotics and nutrients contents in all these samples. They could be burnt sugarcane and sugar as earlier explained into molasses as well.

Any honey sample with offensive odour and unappealing taste must be something else and as well must be injurious to your health you intend to improve.

Some of the wild comb hunters can go to the extreme of putting their harvested honey combs in big pots and heat the contents before pressing the honey, in this way the liquid honey tends to be extra thick with the notion to convince buyers.

As often emphasized, honey samples from Beekeepers that has been harvested professionally will maintain free flow viscosity and natural golden sparkling colour ranging from pale yellow to brown since it was not bunt as a process of harvesting nor heated to deceive buyers.

4. Lastly in the most four questions I researched upon is “Can pure natural honey attract ants?”. My funny answer has always come in dual statements of Yes and No. The attraction or repellation of ants will depends on the plants nectars and pollen collected by the bees during the process of foraging for honey production in a particular geographical area by the bees and the maturity age of the honey since very young honey could give the odour similar to plants pollens and nectars.

It is a known fact that some flowering plants naturally attracts ants mostly the wingless ones that are non pollinators  while other plants do not, this known fact also determine which honey samples may attract ant or otherwise.

The established fact in that the juices and nectars are properly converted by the bees to give you the pure natural honey expected from the bees.

In the case of ants’ attraction to your bottle of honey place the honey bottle in a small           plastic container containing some water to keep them away. The fact remains that ants depends of their sense of smell for food since the sweet smell appeal to them  and attract them to their newly discovered source of food which is your honey.

All the statements in this content are subjected to investigations and research works, and I do not uphold total unquestionable knowledge.

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