Transcript So What is Honey?

So What is Honey?
Kevin Lima
CHEM 106
What’s in Honey?
• Honey is made up of about 80% sugar and
17% water, with the remaining 3% a
mixture of various enzymes that vary
depending on the region it comes from.
Sugar
• The 80% sugar is made up mostly of glucose and fructose.
• They are both very important sugars that humans require to survive.
They provide the energy for the body to carry out necessary
functions so that it doesn’t die.
• They have the same molecular formula, only arranged differently.
The formula is C6H12O6.
• Glucose is the primary ingredient in Corn Syrup.
Sugar Continued
• Minor sugars found in honey include maltose, sucrose, and erlose,
among numerous others.
• Sucrose is the most common type of sugar. It is instrumental in the
making of honey. Bees break it down during the digestion process
into the larger, and more common sugars, Glucose and Fructose,
making Sucrose the source of the two sugars that make up the
majority of honey.
• Maltose is created through the digestion of starch. Plays an
important role in the fermentation of alcohol.
Other Enzymes
• Invertase: Splits sucrose into Glucose and Fructose
• Flucose Oxidase: Instrumental in creating Gluconic Acid, the main
acid in honey.
• Gluconic, along with other acids, prevent bacteria from growing,
which explains why honey takes so long to spoil.
• There are also traces of Ash, Iron, Manganese, Copper, and Silicon
present in some samples of honey, although the minor components
depend on where the honey came from, as it grows in multiple
different environments and nectar can come from a variety of
flowers.
• It is the trace elements that give honey its unique color and flavor.
How Honey is Made
• Alright, so I have two videos here. Which
one would be more appropriate for the
presentation?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLM0S8
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6IQx2
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Sources
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http://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i6/Honey0.html
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Maltose
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/organic/sugar.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/sucrose.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6IQx26eHk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLM0S8oAnLI
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2001/loveridge/indexpage3.html