Florida Honey

By Dr. Waldo Horton

Nature’s Own Sweet — Nature’s Oldest Sweet

Chemistry is now corroborating experience and proving that our honey from sub-tropical and tropical plants contains more minerals and is more health-giving. We have more variety than almost any state, to please those who like a change of flavor. For those who like it standard and always the same a Florida blend is recommended.

FOOD VALUE

In infancy milk is a balanced and suficient food. As we become more active a higher calorie addition becomes necessary. But foolish and taste-tickled mankind have gone too far with varieties and mixtures. Sane thinkers are now reverting to the more simple. In this very generation we are sure to see increasing thousands going back to the more elemental, natural foods. The Biblical recommendation of milk and honey, (Num. 13-27; Gen. 43-11; Ps. 19-10; Math. 3-4; Is. 7-15), should again be taken seriously.

Honey is a monosaccharide sugar, chiefly fruit sugar. This sugar is the natural end-product of digestion, so that honey is already digested and easily assimilable. It is sweeter than cane sugar but also contains more water and the amount varies in honeys from different flowers.

There are many kinds of honey, almost as many as there are different flowers, though some flowers do not produce nectar (honey). Bees gather the nectar, and in the hive process it and store and condense it in the comb as honey. Extracted honey is thrown out of the comb by an extracting machine and strained, and is used on the table and in cookery like syrup.

Honey adulterated with cheap syrup is not so common as thought, on account of the rigid Pure Food Law, but if there is real reason to suspect this adulteration, a sample sent to Gainesville or Washington will disclose the truth.