Is honey really bee vomit?

Question

I've read this online but is it a proven fact?

Answer 1

Yes it is. Honey is dried bee vomit. Honeybees gather three major items from the wild: pollen, nectar, and tree sap, and the nectar and pollen, from flowers, are used for food. Honeybees drink nectar from flowers, then regurgitate it back and forth to each other to partially digest it.  (The beehive has been described as a collective stomach.)  They then regurgitate the partially digested nectar once more and fan it with their wings until it is too thick and concentrated to spoil. This partially dried bee vomit is called honey. Honey is stored in hollow beeswax cells integral to the structure of the hive.

Bee vomit is honey and part of the beekeeping/honey production, it is just a fact as how milk comes from impregnated mothers (cows, goats, etc) while their male children become veal, all part of the animal production system.

But honey is fairly easy to avoid, and there are plenty of alternatives out there such as vegan honey, agave nectar, maple syrup, brown rice syrup, and dandelion honey.

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Answer 2

no they make their money from the nectar in the flowers

Answer 3

The bees use an enzymatic process in their "stomachs" to change to flower nectar into honey, so technically, yes.  But it seems to me it's more of a case of someone just trying to be gross.  Kind of like telling you "Did you know compost is worm poo?"  or "Did you know yogurt is rotten milk?"

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

Honey is the complex substance made when the nectar and sweet deposits from plants and trees are gathered, modified and stored in the honeycomb by honey bees as a food source for the colony. All living species of Apis have had their honey gathered by indigenous peoples for consumption, though for commercial purposes only Apis mellifera and Apis cerana have been exploited to any degree. Honey is sometimes also gathered by humans from the nests of various stingless bees

Answer 6

Yes, pretty much. The bees collect the nectar from plants (also how they pollinate) and fly it back to the hive, where they release it and go off for more. Essentially, the honey is partially-digested nectar from flowers.

Answer 7

no

Answer 8

yes. it s like cud from a cow. they swollow it then throw it up a couple times. then you have honey! (gags)

Answer 9

Yes.

Bees get nectar and chew it, the enzymes in the saliva break down the sugars which makes honey

Answer 10

Yes!

Answer 11

Yes it is.  They gather the nectar, swallow it and carry it back to the hive.  Enzymes in the stomach change its composition.  It is regurgitated into prepared comb and much of the water is evaporated away by other bees fanning and recirculating the air.

Edit  A few interesting facts

A honeybee makes 154 trips for one teaspoon of honey.

A colony produces 60 to 100 pounds of honey a year.

To gather a pound of honey, a bee flies a distance equal to more than three times around the world. It takes two million flowers to make one pound of honey.