Where was the world’s oldest honey found? We thought it would be fun to look at the three oldest known honey finds in the world as of September 2019. Just think, these honeys can still be eaten today because antimicrobial honey never goes bad. The world’s oldest known references to collecting honey are from the 8,000 y

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    Can have anti-microbial properties. In the American Civil War it was used as a wound dressing. And this was actually a very good idea.

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        While bee populations have taken hits, media reports of their likely extinction are very overblown. Most of the bees are still there, and the problem was first identified like 20 years ago.

        Saving an important insect population is fairly doable. Don’t let the clickbait get you down.

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      This is true!

      This in large part because honey is mostly sugar, this means it has very high osmotic potential (put simply, making it incredibly good at sucking up water, because water diffuses into it very easily)

      It’s also exactly why it lasts so long

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        Ahhh, I didn’t know that was the mechanism. So an extremely thick sucrose gel might have similar properties.

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      It’s still used to today in dressings. There is a brand of honey “medihoney” that we get at the hospital I work at.