Is Honey Vegan? To Eat Or Not To Eat

Are you a vegan or an aspiring vegan trying to determine is honey vegan? First of all I would like to congratulate you on taking the steps on doing your own examination to find out is honey vegan. I remember when I first become a vegan about 11 years ago. I asked the same question; is honey vegan?

I was a vegetarian for 2 years before becoming vegan and honey was one of the things that I really loved to use in my food. When I did my beginning research I had learned from hardcore vegans that honey wasn't vegan!

Not Accurate

But I accepted as truth what I had heard because I wanted to do away with all animal products so I stopped using honey. As I developed as a health practitioner and I did more research I began to realized that honey IS actually vegan! Is Honey Vegan? The Facts

A vegan is a that doesn't consume any animal (or insect)  or animal by products. Is honey vegan? Absolutely! Because honey is not made of bees; bees make honey.

The Technique: How is Honey Vegan

Bees gather nectar from flowers and then cumulate them in a special sack. This sack is called a honey stomach. This is an odd name because there is no digestive process that happens in this honey stomach and it is separate from their actual stomachs that they use for digestion.

After collecting nectar from at least 100 flowers the bee brings the nectar back to the hive and house bees redeem the honey from the bee sacks (honey stomachs). The bees chew the honey for 30 minutes breaking it down with enzymes into a simple sugar. They spread out the honey throughout the honeycombs and aerate them with their wings in order to dry them. As they dry most of the liquid dissolves and it leaves a thick sap; honey. The honey is collected from the honey comb and if you are working with local humane bee keepers the bees are unhurt and honey is left for their consuming as well.

Is Honey Vegan?

I hope that this has answered your questions on is honey vegan. Raw honey is packed with nutrition; enjoy!

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