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Module 2 Honey > Honey > Flashcards

Honey Flashcards

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1
Q

Name types of honey extractor

A

Tangential, radial, honey press

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2
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Give a UK thixotropic honey

A

Ling heather

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3
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Instruments used for measuring moisture content

A

Refractometer, hydrometer

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4
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Term used for tendancy to absorb moisture

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Hydroscopicity

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5
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Name 5 saleable products other than honey

A

Beeswax, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, bee venom

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6
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Chemical compounds of fermentation of honey

A

Ethanol , carbon dioxide

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7
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4 Plants that produce pollen in spring

A

Pussy willow, bluebell, crocus, snowdrop

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8
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Secretion from aphids

A

Honeydew

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9
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Relative density aka

A

Specific gravity

1.4

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10
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What’s royal jelly?

A

Food for honey bee queen larvae

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11
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Pollination

A

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

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12
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Fertilisation

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

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13
Q

Methods of cross pollination

A

Self incompatibility
Protandry
Protogyny
Heyrrostly

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14
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Characteristics of fermented honey

A

Water content above 20% temp 18-21°

Osmomphilic yeast, granulation

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15
Q

Factors causing honey to ferment

A

High water content above 20% 23% for ling

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

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16
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Honey legislation come into effect

A

2003

2005

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17
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Electrical conductivity of honey

A

less than 0.8mS/cm

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18
Q

Water content of bakers honey

A

Less than 25%

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19
Q

Fructose and glucose content

A

More than 60/100g

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20
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Measure of sucrose

A

5/100g

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21
Q

Hmf level

A

Less than 40mg/kg

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22
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Distase level

A

More than 8

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23
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Blossom Honey composition

A 
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
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24
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Ovary

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5 parts containing 2 ovules

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25
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Petals

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5 corolla

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26
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Filament

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Carries anther collectively known as stigma

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27
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Stigma

A

Receptors for pollen

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28
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Anther

A

Where pollen grains develops

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29
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Style

A

Holds stigma by style stalks

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30
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Temperature to speed up crystallisation

A

14°

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31
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Cross pollination

A

Pollen from different plant of same species transferred to stigma

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32
Q

What’s melomel

A

Mead and fruit juice

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33
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Name and describe extractor for heather honey

A

Honey press. Squeezes honey, destroys comb

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34
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Equivalent metric weight 1lb

A

454g

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35
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Does a block of wax sink or float?

A

Float

36
Q

What is metheglin?

A

Mead and spices

37
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Name the secretion from the bodies of aphids

A

Honeydew

38
Q

Methods of uncapping

A

Fork, knife, flailing,needeler, heat gun

39
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Common Latin name for unpalatable honey

A

Ivy Hedera helix

40
Q

Temperature beeswax discolours

A

83° c 180F

41
Q

Temperature beeswax melts

A

62-64°.

143-147f

42
Q

4 product other than wax from hive and uses

A

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

42
Q

4 product other than wax from hive and usespro

A

, health

42
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4 product other than wax from hive and usespro

A

, health

43
Q

4 product other than wax from hive and uses

A

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

44
Q

Composition of nectar

A 
Water
Sugars sucrose, glucose, fructose
Salts
Organic acids
Enzymes
Proteins
Aromatic substances
45
Q

What’s the specific gravity of honey? Aka

A

Relative density

1.4

46
Q

What’s honeydew?

A

Secretion from bodies of aphids

47
Q

Two main sugars found in honey

A

Glucose fructose

48
Q

Maximum sucrose in honey

A

5g/100g

49
Q

Two enzymes found in honey

A

Invartase/sucrase
Glucose oxidase
Diastase

50
Q

Max hmf level

A

40mg/kg

51
Q

Enzyme that changes sucrose to glucose and fructose

A

Invertase/sucrase

52
Q

Where are cherry /broad bean extra floral nectaries?

A

Close to leaf petiole

53
Q

Bracken extra floral nectaries

A

Base of frond where joins main stem

54
Q

Key changes from honey to nectar

A

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

55
Q

Broad bean extra floral nectaries

A

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

56
Q

What’s the recommended temp for storing honey?

A

30°?

57
Q

Disadvantage of tangential extractor

A

You have to swap frames round

58
Q

Which component of ling honey causes the honey to gel?

A

?

59
Q

What is sucrase?

A

Invertase, enzyme which changes sucrose to glucose and fructose

60
Q

What is an entomophilous plant or flower?

A

?

61
Q

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

A

Ling is thixotropic bell is not?

62
Q

What does the shade scale measure?

A

?

63
Q

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

A

Less than 25% water content

64
Q

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

A

50° 1-3 days?

65
Q

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

A

%

66
Q

State max temperature honey should be stored to prevent deterioration

A

30°?

67
Q

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

A

5/100g

68
Q

What does beeswax develop when store in cool temperature?

A

?

69
Q

How do honeybees carry propolis?

A

?

70
Q

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

A

23%

71
Q

What animal produces honeydew?

A

Aphids

72
Q

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

A

Antibacterial

73
Q

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

A

Danger of contracting

74
Q

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

A

?

75
Q

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

A

Average 20.8

76
Q

Name a factor affecting the secretion of ling heather honey

A

Weather, too dry no nectar

77
Q

What is glucose oxidase?

A

An enzyme

78
Q

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

A

Separates

79
Q

Name a component that can identify honeydew under a microscope

A

?

80
Q

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

A

?

81
Q

What is Melissopalynogy?

A

?

82
Q

Maximum sucrose in borage honey

A

/

83
Q

Name a substance found in honeydew not found in floral honey

A

??

84
Q

Give one example of a dioecious plant

A

?

85
Q

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

A

Honey regulations 2003?

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