--- title: "18 Interesting Facts About Honey" url: https://www.kickassfacts.com/honey-facts/ date: 2017-11-06 modified: 2017-11-06 lang: en author: "jazz" description: "Here are 18 Interesting Honey facts. 1-5 Honey Facts 1. There have been no beehive losses in Cuba. Unable to import pesticides due to the embargo, the island now exports..." categories: - "Fact List" - "Food" image: https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/honey-article.jpg word_count: 432 --- # 18 Interesting Facts About Honey Here are 18 Interesting Honey facts. ## 1-5 Honey Facts [![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/organic-honey.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/organic-honey.jpg) 1. There have been no beehive losses in [Cuba](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-cuba/). Unable to import pesticides due to the embargo, the [island](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-islands/) now exports valuable organic honey. - [Source](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/09/organic-honey-is-a-sweet-success-for-cuba-as-other-bee-populations-suffer) 2. There is a type of food fraud where honey is cut with cheaper [sugars](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-interesting-facts-about-sugar-sweeteners/) and syrups and then sold as pure honey. This is called 'Honey Laundering'. - [Source](https://www.livescience.com/28039-honey-laundering.html) 3. The Himalayan Honey Bee, largest of the honey bees, makes a hallucinogenic honey that tribes collect. - [Source](http://www.curiousmeerkat.co.uk/short/giant-bees-make-psychedelic-honey/) 4. 3000-year-old honey found in an ancient Egyptian tomb hadn't spoiled and was still edible. - [Source](http://www.compoundchem.com/2014/08/21/chemistryofhoney/) 5. Beekeepers in [France](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-france/) discovered blue and green honey, the result of bees foraging in the waste created in the production of M&Ms. - [Source](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/05/french-bees-produce-blue-honey/) ## 6-10 Honey Facts [![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/spoon-honey.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/spoon-honey.jpg) 6. It takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey. - [Source](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/10/how-bees-make-honey-ask-a-grown-up) 7. People can get high by eating honey made from bees that live near poppy fields. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees_and_toxic_chemicals) 8. Honey is more effective at cough suppression than many over the counter cough syrups. - [Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18056558) 9. Honey is a natural reservoir for the Botulism bacteria. Adult bodies can normally process it. This is why you shouldn't give babies honey. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism#Infant_botulism) 10. According to one researcher, ancients such as [Alexander the Great](https://www.kickassfacts.com/30-fascinating-alexander-the-great-facts/) were sometimes buried in honey. After about a hundred years, candied corpses were supposedly dug up and eaten as medicine. - [Source](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129024911) ## 11-15 Honey Facts [![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/local-beekeepers.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/local-beekeepers.jpg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 11. Beekeeping in Ukraine is a major economic activity. 700,000 people, 1.5% of the Ukrainian population, are engaged in producing honey. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping_in_Ukraine) 12. Honey can be used to treat wounds because it reacts to release Hydrogen peroxide. - [Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12804080) 13. Bees control the thickness and clarity of their honey by fanning their wings at ventilation points within the hive at varying rates to control evaporation of [water](https://www.kickassfacts.com/30-kickass-interesting-facts-water/). - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey) 14. Some wasps make honey. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachygastra_mellifica) 15. Out of the 20,000 known species of bees, only 7 produce honey. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee#Defense) ## 16-18 Honey Facts [![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Telling_the_Bees.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Telling_the_Bees.jpg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 16. It was customary in [England](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-england/) to give bees a slice of [wedding](https://www.kickassfacts.com/41-amazing-wedding-facts/) cake and to inform them of a funeral otherwise they believed the bees would stop making honey. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees) 17. The Azalea Bush is incredibly toxic, creates poisonous honey, and that to send a bouquet of Azalea (and Rhododendron, also poisonous) flowers in a black vase was a well-known [death](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-death/) threat. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azalea) 18. There is a honey war going on between beekeepers in [Australia](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-and-interesting-facts-about-australia-part-1-of-2/) over manuka trees. Some beekeepers even use Helicopters to position their hives in groves of the sought-after trees. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81nuka_honey)