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Honey is the only sweetening material that can be stored and used exactly as produced in nature. No refining or processing is necessary before enjoying this unique material, which can be traced through the entire span of recorded history. Honey, which was man’s first sweet, was used earliest as a ceremonial material and a medicinal ingredient. Not until the era of the Greeks and Romans did honey
come to be regarded as a food also. It so remained until relatively recently displaced by cane and beet sugar during the past 100 years. Honey is the sweet, viscous substance elaborated by the honeybee from the nectar of plants. This simple definition excludes honeydew honey, which is produced by the bee from honeydew excreted by various plant-sucking insects.
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