Honey

📖 In short

Honey is a sweet, golden, delicious liquid that bees make from flower nectar. It's one of the most useful and oldest foods. God says of it in the Qur'an: ﴿يخرج من بطونها شراب مختلف ألوانه فيه شفاء للناس﴾

🤩 Did you know?

The world produces more than a billion kilograms of honey every year.
Honey is a sweet food that doesn't need refining.
Bees visit millions of flowers to make just one kilogram of honey.
It's advised not to give honey to babies before their first birthday.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 The nectar's journey

A worker bee flies from flower to flower, sips the sweet nectar with her tongue and keeps it in a special pouch in her body called a honey stomach, then carries it back to the hive.

🔍 From nectar to honey

In the hive, the bees put the nectar into six-sided wax cells and fan their wings over it to evaporate the water, so it becomes thick and sweet, then they cap it with wax.

💡 Colors and flavors

Honey's color and taste depend on the flowers the bees collected nectar from: sidr honey is dark and strong, clover honey is light and mild, and wildflower honey is varied.