Honey

Question 1

Name types of honey extractor

Answer 1

Tangential, radial, honey press

Question 2

Give a UK thixotropic honey

Answer 2

Ling heather

Question 3

Instruments used for measuring moisture content

Answer 3

Refractometer, hydrometer

Question 4

Term used for tendancy to absorb moisture

Answer 4

Hydroscopicity

Question 5

Name 5 saleable products other than honey

Answer 5

Beeswax, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, bee venom

Question 6

Chemical compounds of fermentation of honey

Answer 6

Ethanol , carbon dioxide

Question 7

4 Plants that produce pollen in spring

Answer 7

Pussy willow, bluebell, crocus, snowdrop

Question 8

Secretion from aphids

Answer 8

Honeydew

Question 9

Relative density aka

Answer 9

Specific gravity

1.4

Question 10

What’s royal jelly?

Answer 10

Food for honey bee queen larvae

Question 11

Pollination

Answer 11

Transfer of pollen from anther’s to stigma of another flower

Question 12

Fertilisation

Answer 12

Fusion of male gamete(pollen) with female gamete(ovule) to produce a single cell (zygote)

Question 13

Methods of cross pollination

Answer 13

Self incompatibility
Protandry
Protogyny
Heyrrostly

Question 14

Characteristics of fermented honey

Answer 14

Water content above 20% temp 18-21°

Osmomphilic yeast, granulation

Question 15

Factors causing honey to ferment

Answer 15

High water content above 20% 23% for ling

Presence of ethanol and carbon dioxide. Temperature 18-21°. Granulation

Question 16

Honey legislation come into effect

Answer 16

2003

2005

Question 17

Electrical conductivity of honey

Answer 17

less than 0.8mS/cm

Question 18

Water content of bakers honey

Answer 18

Less than 25%

Question 19

Fructose and glucose content

Answer 19

More than 60/100g

Question 20

Measure of sucrose

Answer 20

5/100g

Question 21

Hmf level

Answer 21

Less than 40mg/kg

Question 22

Distase level

Answer 22

More than 8

Question 23

Blossom Honey composition

Answer 23

Moisture less than 20%
Fructose glucose 60g/ 100g
Sucrose less than 5g/100g except borage and lavender
Water insoluble less than 0.1g/100g
Distase more than 8
No foriegn tastes odours

Question 24

Ovary

Answer 24

5 parts containing 2 ovules

Question 25

Petals

Answer 25

5 corolla

Question 26

Filament

Answer 26

Carries anther collectively known as stigma

Question 27

Stigma

Answer 27

Receptors for pollen

Question 28

Anther

Answer 28

Where pollen grains develops

Question 29

Style

Answer 29

Holds stigma by style stalks

Question 30

Temperature to speed up crystallisation

Answer 30

14°

Question 31

Cross pollination

Answer 31

Pollen from different plant of same species transferred to stigma

Question 32

What's melomel

Answer 32

Mead and fruit juice

Question 33

Name and describe extractor for heather honey

Answer 33

Honey press. Squeezes honey, destroys comb

Question 34

Equivalent metric weight 1lb

Answer 34

454g

Question 35

Does a block of wax sink or float?

Answer 35

Float

Question 36

What is metheglin?

Answer 36

Mead and spices

Question 37

Name the secretion from the bodies of aphids

Answer 37

Honeydew

Question 38

Methods of uncapping

Answer 38

Fork, knife, flailing,needeler, heat gun

Question 39

Common Latin name for unpalatable honey

Answer 39

Ivy Hedera helix

Question 40

Temperature beeswax discolours

Answer 40

83° c 180F

Question 41

Temperature beeswax melts

Answer 41

62-64°. | 143-147f

Question 42

4 product other than wax from hive and uses

Answer 42

Propolis health tincture Bee sting alternative therapy Royal jelly beauty products Pollen health food

Question 42

4 product other than wax from hive and usespro

Answer 42

, health

Question 42

4 product other than wax from hive and usespro

Answer 42

, health

Question 43

4 product other than wax from hive and uses

Answer 43

Propolis health tincture Pollen, health food Bee sting, alternative therapy Royal jelly, cosmetics

Question 44

Composition of nectar

Answer 44

``` Water Sugars sucrose, glucose, fructose Salts Organic acids Enzymes Proteins Aromatic substances ```

Question 45

What's the specific gravity of honey? Aka

Answer 45

Relative density | 1.4

Question 46

What's honeydew?

Answer 46

Secretion from bodies of aphids

Question 47

Two main sugars found in honey

Answer 47

Glucose fructose

Question 48

Maximum sucrose in honey

Answer 48

5g/100g

Question 49

Two enzymes found in honey

Answer 49

Invartase/sucrase Glucose oxidase Diastase

Question 50

Max hmf level

Answer 50

40mg/kg

Question 51

Enzyme that changes sucrose to glucose and fructose

Answer 51

Invertase/sucrase

Question 52

Where are cherry /broad bean extra floral nectaries?

Answer 52

Close to leaf petiole

Question 53

Bracken extra floral nectaries

Answer 53

Base of frond where joins main stem

Question 54

Key changes from honey to nectar

Answer 54

Water content reduced to below 20% Enzymes added invertase, changes s to g+ f glucose oxidase diastase

Question 55

Broad bean extra floral nectaries

Answer 55

Dark purple spots o light green stipules at the base of the leafpetioles

Question 56

What's the recommended temp for storing honey?

Answer 56

30°?

Question 57

Disadvantage of tangential extractor

Answer 57

You have to swap frames round

Question 58

Which component of ling honey causes the honey to gel?

Answer 58

?

Question 59

What is sucrase?

Answer 59

Invertase, enzyme which changes sucrose to glucose and fructose

Question 60

What is an entomophilous plant or flower?

Answer 60

?

Question 61

What's the major difference between ling and bell heather honey?

Answer 61

Ling is thixotropic bell is not?

Question 62

What does the shade scale measure?

Answer 62

?

Question 63

Give 1 criterion for honey to be labelled bakers honey according to honey regs 2003?

Answer 63

Less than 25% water content

Question 64

Give temperature and time to warm honey in water bath to give a shelf life of 3-6 months

Answer 64

50° 1-3 days?

Question 65

State upper and lower limits of sugar content of nectar as%

Answer 65

%

Question 66

State max temperature honey should be stored to prevent deterioration

Answer 66

30°?

Question 67

What's the max permitted level of Sucrose on blossom honey?

Answer 67

5/100g

Question 68

What does beeswax develop when store in cool temperature?

Answer 68

?

Question 69

How do honeybees carry propolis?

Answer 69

?

Question 70

What's the max moisture content of calluna (ling)?

Answer 70

23%

Question 71

What animal produces honeydew?

Answer 71

Aphids

Question 72

Name one property of honey that makes it suitable as a wound dressing?

Answer 72

Antibacterial

Question 73

Why should honey not be given to children under 12 months?

Answer 73

Danger of contracting

Question 74

How does a white clover floret show it has been pollinated?

Answer 74

?

Question 75

What's the minimum diastase activity permitted in UK honey?

Answer 75

Average 20.8

Question 76

Name a factor affecting the secretion of ling heather honey

Answer 76

Weather, too dry no nectar

Question 77

What is glucose oxidase?

Answer 77

An enzyme

Question 78

What happens if a honey with one relative density is added to one with another rs and not thoroughly mixed?

Answer 78

Separates

Question 79

Name a component that can identify honeydew under a microscope

Answer 79

?

Question 80

What type of the extractor can be use to spin ling?

Answer 80

?

Question 81

What is Melissopalynogy?

Answer 81

?

Question 82

Maximum sucrose in borage honey

Answer 82

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Question 83

Name a substance found in honeydew not found in floral honey

Answer 83

??

Question 84

Give one example of a dioecious plant

Answer 84

?

Question 85

Which piece of legislation is specific to the sale and production of honey?

Answer 85

Honey regulations 2003?