. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. TilK lit:ieing ab- sorbed. We eat starch. It is non-osmolic, and would lie in the stomach and intestines indefinitely, except that by digestion it is changed to a glucose-like sugar, which is very osmotic, and so ea^^ily ahsorbetl from the aliment-canal into the blood, ('ane- sugar, though somewhat osmotic, is not readily absorbed, nor is it readily assimila- ted, even though it pass into the blood. Thus cane sugar must be digested or chang- ed to a glucose-like sugar. Bees gather nectar from the flowers, and as they sip it. or draw it. from the flowers,
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. TilK lit:ieing ab- sorbed. We eat starch. It is non-osmolic, and would lie in the stomach and intestines indefinitely, except that by digestion it is changed to a glucose-like sugar, which is very osmotic, and so ea^^ily ahsorbetl from the aliment-canal into the blood, ('ane- sugar, though somewhat osmotic, is not readily absorbed, nor is it readily assimila- ted, even though it pass into the blood. Thus cane sugar must be digested or chang- ed to a glucose-like sugar. Bees gather nectar from the flowers, and as they sip it. or draw it. from the flowers, they mingle with it a kind of saliva or fer- ment, from their upper head glands, and the large glands of the thorax, and thus transform it to honey, which contains, al- most exclusively, a reducing sugar, and not eane-sngar. Thus b-^es do to nectar what â ^e do to âthey transform it to a osmotic and assimilable glucose-like sugar. We call this in our case disgestion of the cane-sugar, and it is just the same in case the beesdo it. If any one orefers he may call it " transformation. " In any case, it makes honey a safer food tiiau cane sugar. and we do well to eat in more genM-ally ; and it is especially desirable as food for children. Children should be given all the honey at each meal-time that they wi'l eat. It is safer : will largely do away with the inordin- ate longing for candy and other sweet*, and in lessening the desire will doubtless dimin- ish the amount of cane-sutrar eate . Then if cane-sugar does work mischief with health, the harm may be prevented. There can V)e ro doubt but that in eating honey our disrestive machinery is saved work that it would have to perform if we ate cane-sug- ar : and in case it is over-worked and feeble, this may be just the respite that will save from a break down. Again if cane-sugar is absorbed without change, it will be removed by the kidneys, and may result in their break-down ; and so physicians may be correct
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