The Buzz About Honey

Weather eaten on biscuits or scooped straight from the jar, honey is one of Tennessee's favorite foods. In fact, the honeybee was adopted as the official state agricultural insect in 1990. Consider these facts:
1. If honeybees became extinct, the lack of pollination would cause one-third of the earth's crops to vanish.
2. Beekeeping is popular hobby for people who grow fruit trees; the bees' pollination helps produce a bigger harvest.
3. Honey is the only food that does not require digestion by the human body - it is absorbed directly into the bloodstream when it hits the tongue.
4. Americans consume 285 million pounds of honey on average every year.