Hot Honey Chicken Caesar Salad

Let’s Hear it for the Bees!

Most of us know how great honey tastes, but this amazing natural substance often fails to get its full due. So, let’s start with our friends who are actually responsible for making it: bees! Honey bee workers spend their life tending to various chores that go into making honey, and they certainly live up to the name. 

Did you know that 55,000 miles of flying time and two million flower visits from bees go into making just one pound of honey? Seems like a lot of work, right? Well, honey bees don’t sleep, so that’s why they have time to work so much—well, that and the fact that they eat their own product for energy, which definitely tracks. 

You should also remember that the honey bee is the only insect that produces food for humans, so we all owe them a hearty “thank you.” 

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Aside from being delicious, honey is full of a variety of vitamins and essential minerals, antioxidants, and amino acids. In fact, honey is the only natural edible product that consists of all the substances necessary to sustain life, such as vitamins, enzymes, minerals, and water. And, as we know from bees, it can function as an exceptional energy source.

Honey can also be used topically as a natural antimicrobial agent on minor burns or scrapes. And if that’s not enough, it has been shown to speed the healing of wounds. 

Worried about your honey expiring? Don’t fret: If you keep it in an airtight container, it won’t expire—something evidenced by the honey found in King Tut’s tomb, which was still perfectly edible after all those years. 

Here’s to honey!

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