The Buzz on Honey

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Honey seems like a simple, comforting food, slathered on toast, spooned down to soothe sore throats, and beloved of bears, both plush and real. In reality, this sticky combination of bee spit and evaporated nectar is a powerful and ancient ingredient. For much of history, honey was humanity’s main source of sweetness, as well as our first vehicle for getting drunk. Unlike table sugar, honey also comes in an infinite variety of textures and flavors, influenced by the two million blossoms from which each jar is made. And, from ancient Egypt to modern medicine, honey has been valued for its healing powers. Join us this episode as we get stuck in the sweet stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Fox Creative.
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0:18.0	but in the first year, only 22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:23.0	So what happened?
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1:05.0	A lot of bees. Have you ever seen them at your bees?
1:15.0	Never.
1:16.0	That's a lot of bees.
1:18.0	I can't even, I mean, I can't even guesstimate. Like, is that 250? Is that a thousand?
1:23.0	Yeah, and on a full frame of bees, you're going to have about a thousand,
1:26.0	1,500, 2,000 actually.
1:29.0	So that's probably a lower on the lower end.
1:32.0	It's probably approaching 1,000.
1:34.0	Wow.
1:36.0	Nikki has a lot of skills, but counting things, unfortunately, isn't one of them.
1:41.0	Numbers are not my friend. It's true. It's a real thing,
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