Why does honey never spoil?
Honey's Forever Trick
Why does honey never spoil?
Archaeologists once cracked open a 3,000-year-old tomb in Egypt and found a jar of honey inside. They tasted it. Still perfectly good. How does honey pull off this immortality trick while milk goes bad in a week and bread grows fuzzy green sweaters in days?
The secret starts with bees. When a bee slurps nectar from a flower, that nectar is mostly water — about 70 percent. Wet and dilute, like weak sugar-water. But bees don't store wet nectar. They get to work concentrating it, like boiling down maple sap into syrup.
