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Dear Internet Shopper,

Thank you very much for visiting our on-line store! Hopefully you will have the opportunity to enjoy one of more of our pure and natural honeys, via our convenient mail order program.

For our long-time customers, you will notice our pricing format has changed. The pricing listed with the items and gift collections no longer includes the UPS shipping charges. The UPS charges will be calculated once you "check out" your shopping cart. As you can imagine, UPS costs have been increasing for quite sometime and we need to allow for these increases.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at info@dutchgoldhoney.com.

All the best,

Your friends at Dutch Gold Honey

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DID YOU KNOW??

• Honey is 25% sweeter than table sugar.
• Honey is the only food that never spoils.
• Honey is the only food produced by insects.
• There are over 300 different kinds of honey in the United States alone.
• The term "honeymoon" derived from drinking Mead (honey wine) for a month (moon) after weddings.
• Honey is mentioned in the Bible.
• Honey was found in King Tut's tomb.
• You can substitute honey instead of sugar in your favorite recipes (see how).
• The antioxidant called "pinocembrin" is only found in honey.
• Honey can be used on cuts and burns instead of over the counter medicines.
• Honey is used in many beauty products because it's a natural humectant (retains moisture).
• Honey is used in many sports products because it gives you a natural energy boost.
• Honey has heart-healthy antioxidants. Different flavors, such as Buckwheat, have even higher levels.
• Honey is naturally fat free and cholesterol free, so eat up!
• Tupelo honey is the only kind that never crystalizes.

HISTORICAL HONEY BEAUTY SECRETS

• Madame du Barry, the infamous last mistress of Louis XV, used honey as a form of facial mask, lying down for a rest while the honey did its work.
• Cleopatra of Egypt regularly took honey and milk baths to maintain her youthful appearance.
• It was said that Queen Anne of England used a honey and oil concoction to keep her long hair lustrous, thick and shiny.
• It was claimed that another famous Englishwoman, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, used her own secret recipe for a honey water to keep her hair beautiful.
• Chinese women have a tradition of using a blend of honey and ground orange seeds to keep their skin blemish-free.

DIFFERENT KINDS OF HONEY

Most of us know honey as a sweet, golden liquid. But, in fact, honey can be found in a variety of forms.

• Comb Honey - Comb honey is honey that comes as it was produced — in the honey bees' wax comb. The comb, as well as the honey, is edible!

• Cut Comb - Cut comb honey is liquid honey that has added chunks of the honey comb in the jar. Also known as liquid-cut comb combination.

• Liquid Honey - Free of visible crystals, liquid honey is extracted from the honey comb by centrifugal force, gravity or straining. Because liquid honey mixes easily into a variety of foods, it's especially convenient for cooking and baking. Most of the honey produced in the United States is sold in the liquid form.

• Naturally Crystallized Honey - Naturally crystallized honey is honey that part of the natural glucose content has spontaneously crystallized from solution as the monohydrate.

• Whipped (or Cremed) Honey - While all honey will crystallize in time, whipped honey (also known as cremed honey or sugared honey) is brought to market in a crystallized state. The crystallization is controlled so that, at room temperature, the honey can be spread like butter. In many countries around the world, whipped honey is preferred to the liquid form.

POPULAR HONEY TERMS

ANTHER - The area where pollen is developed and contained in a plant.
APIARIST - A beekeeer.
APIARY - Where several bee colonies are kept in one place.

BEEHIVE - A place where a bee colony dwells.
BEESWAX - Secreted wax from the underside glands of the bee abdomen; bees mold the wax to form honeycomb.

COLONY - A community of tens of thousands of worker bees, usually containing one queen, with or without drones.
COMB HONEY - Honey presented in its original wax comb.
CRYSTALLIZATION - Honey is a supersaturated solution. Crystals will develop in honey when glucose crystallizes out of solution. Crystallization of honey is most rapid at 57°F.

DRONE - A male bee.

EXTRACTED HONEY - Honey removed from the comb by a special machine called an extractor and sold in liquid or crystallized form.
EXTRACTOR - A machine that rotates honeycomb with great speed to remove honey.

HIVE - A man-made structure for bees.
HONEY - The nectar and sweet deposits from plants as gathered, modified and stored in honeycomb by honey bees.
HONEY BEE - An insect with three pairs of legs, four wings, a stinger and a special stomach which holds nectar. The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
HONEYCOMB - Hexagonal beeswax cells built by honey bees.

NECTAR - The sweet secretion from flowers of various plants.

PISTIL - A flower's central organ that contains the stigma, style and ovary.
POLLEN - The male reproductive cells of flowers. Bees collect pollen to use as food for their young. It is the protein part of a bee's diet.
POLLINATION - The fertilizatBeeion of a flowering plant. The transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of that or another flower.

QUEEN - A sexually developed female bee.

STAMEN - The male part of a flower where pollen-producing anther are borne.
SWARM - The natural division of a bee colony.

WORKER BEE - A sexually undeveloped female bee.

~ Some information provided by the National Honey Board ~

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