Honey

Honey is the natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from the nectar of blossoms or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which honey bees collect, transform and combine with specific substances of their own, store and leave in the honey comb to ripen and mature. Color • Plant pigments and nectar components • Range from clear to almost black Flavor • Depends on nectar and other plant compounds • Varietal or mixtures Aroma • Comes from alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, esters