Eating Beeswax: Can You Eat The Honeycomb?

Eating beeswax: Here are the ways you can go about it

If you want to eat beeswax, it’s easy: you buy a jar of honey with a honeycomb floating in it. When you eat a honeycomb, the first thing you notice is the taste, which is different from ordinary honey. The taste of the honey from the combs is much more intense and also fresher. This is because the honey has not been mixed with other types of honey.

• There are several ways in which you can consume the honeycomb. For example, you can put the honeycomb in a thin layer on a slice of bread. Ideally, choose organic honey. This is less polluted.
• You can also chew the honeycomb-like you would a lollipop or chewing gum. To do this, suck the honey out of the combs in your mouth and then spit the wax out again. However, you don’t have to spit out the wax, you can continue to chew it and even swallow it at the end. Be prepared for the wax to stick to your teeth.
• The intense taste of the honeycomb can also be attributed to the fact that the remains of the pollen and the taste of the wax itself are contained in the wax.
• By the way, you do not have to worry that you will not find honey with combs. More and more health food stores, and organic and delicatessen shops are offering comb and honey. Alternatively, you can also order it online.

Obtaining Comb Honey

The beekeeper does not use every wax for comb honey. In order to get the real benefit, you should know how to comb honey that differs from ordinary honey.

• Comb honey differs from normal honey in that the combs are not spun to get the honey, but the honey ends up in the jar together with the comb. Comb honey is also known as honeycomb. To do this, the honeycombs are cut into thin slices. According to the Honey Ordinance, both are synonyms.
  With commercially available honey, the beekeeper waits until the honey has the correct water content.
• Fresh honey contains more water than mature honey. The beekeepers measure the honey content. You get the honeycomb out for spinning when the honey has 18% water content. The upper limit is 20% water content.
• When the beekeeper wants to sell comb honey, he doesn’t wait for the honey to have the right water content. He waits until the bees have capped the honeycomb. This is a technical term and means nothing else than that the bees close the honeycomb with a thin layer of wax.
• The beekeeper chooses only the lightest combs because they contain honey. The dark combs contain feces and other debris. The bee larvae usually breed in the dark combs. The beekeeper must choose the right combs.