. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. tt Jottnial, DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, JUNE 25, 1884. No. 26. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS C. NEWMAN, Editof and Proprietor, Honey and Digestion. ••All ; says an exchange, " if not already sohible (meltable) in water, have to be so altered within us that they become dissolved, and we call this solution, digestion. Starch, for example, which forms five-sixths of our daily bread, is utterly ineffectual to use while it remains as starch, be- cause of its insolubility; but in the ac
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. tt Jottnial, DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, JUNE 25, 1884. No. 26. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS C. NEWMAN, Editof and Proprietor, Honey and Digestion. ••All ; says an exchange, " if not already sohible (meltable) in water, have to be so altered within us that they become dissolved, and we call this solution, digestion. Starch, for example, which forms five-sixths of our daily bread, is utterly ineffectual to use while it remains as starch, be- cause of its insolubility; but in the act of chewing, the saliva which we add to our bread begins to convert the starch into a sugar (very much like to the sugar of honey), and so renders it soluble in order that it may in due course be carried into our blood, and there do the work of giv- ing us power or lieat. Cane sugar, in like manner, although soluble, re- quires alteration, and this alteration is also brought about by contact with the saliva, and the result is a sugar, as in a previmis case, nearly identical with the sugar of honey. Honey, on the contijary, or the sugar that we find in grapes, is already in the condition for absorption or assimilation, and really no kind of work has to be per- formed upon it before it is actually rendering us service as a force, or heat-producer.'' Honey is, therefore, given to mankind, in the most agree- able form, both for food and medicine. It produces healthy digestion, and holds defiantly that monster of tor- ture, indigestion, at bay. Pure honey should be used freely in every family. Honey eaten upon wheat bread is very beneficial to health. Children would rather eat bread and honey than bread and butter; one pound of honey will reach as far as two pounds of butter, and has, be- sides, the advantage that it is far more healthy and pleasantto thetaste. and always remains good, while but- ter soon becomes rancid and often produces cramp in the stomach, eruc- tations, so
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