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Quality and usefullness of honey
About this event: Food for Talk

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[b]Quality of honey[/b]

It is important not to confuse the texture of honey with the quality. If you feel that the quality of your honey is poor, it will not be the fault of the bee, the problem will lie with whomever processed the honey or poor packaging.

[b]Texture [/b]
In reality there are an infinite variables to the texture of honey, each flower that the bee has visited will create a different texture of honey, in addition to that the processing of the honey also affects the final texture of honey as does the amount of time the honey has been stored.
If you have been in a position to buy honey direct from a beekeeper, you will be able to enjoy honey that has come from specific flowers, your choice of hard or runny honey will be greater. Example of flowers that create texture are heather honey which will set very hard, or clover honey that will stay runny.
Large honey distributors of honey invariably elect to provide blended honey. This way their end product will remain consistent from year to year regardless of the quantity of any species of flower that has been available to the bee.
As mentioned earlier the way that the honey is extracted from the comb or sold in the comb will affect it's final texture, the main variable is how high it was heated to melt it from the honeycomb. The beehive itself if always warm inside and the honey is always a liquid, and when the honey is heated, cooled and skimmed to remove the wax, how fast the honey cools also reflects how thick the honey in the jar is.

Honey is a most useful food product, in both making foods and as a food itself. Many of us are starting to focus on healthier eating habits, better and nutritious foods, and we are more conscience about where we are obtaining our foods – honey is one of the foods and food ingredients that you can trust to meet your all natural needs, with no preservatives needed, honey is going to add to your vitamin and mineral intake!

[b]Usefulness of honey[/b]
Honey is beneficial when you are dieting, watching your weight, and when you are having digestive problems or constipated. Using honey in your daily meals will lessen your stress and improve your sleep. With increased exercise and controlled eating habits, you can lose weight, be in control of your life, and feel better about yourself all around.
we have been telling you, all about the various benefits of using honey in your diet, in your life and for your family in so many ways. Now, in the following pages, you are going to find some easy to use and outstanding recipes that you can add to your recipe book for when you want to try something new, tried, and exciting.

While this is a very short listing of recipes, touching on many of the various ways that you can use honey is what these recipes are striving to show you. If you want to learn to use honey, you can look through your recipe books, convert how much sugar is added to anything, and use honey instead! Using honey is easy when you have just a few minutes to look over your recipes and make that small change.
Honey is one pleasure that is also good for you as well. Learning to cook with and make the best uses of honey in your daily life will include experimenting on your own with honey, replacing other forms of sugar that do not add much more than that sweet taste and calories to your daily eating habits.
Look for your favorite recipes, in your cookbooks, and substitute honey where sugar is called for – and you will be surprised at how much of a difference you can make by substituting just one ingredient for another. You can treat your family to great nutritious meals by substituting sugar with honey.

November 15, 2008 | 5:03 AM Comments  0 comments

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An attempted rape suspect
Related to country: South Africa

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Victim nabs suspect in queue

Thabisile Khoza

Sekhukhune - An attempted rape suspect who was arrested when his alleged victim spotted him standing in the same queue as her at a clinic, appeared briefly in court on Monday.

The 21-year-old man from Ga-Mashegwana village in Limpopo was arrested on Friday.

On Monday, he was not asked to plead to charges of attempted rape and assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm when he appeared in the Sekhukhune Magistrate's Court.

He was remanded in custody until November 3 for further investigation.

Sekhukhune police spokesperson Constable Dithomo Kgaphola said the alleged victim had phoned police from the clinic on Friday.

She claimed he had attacked her at about 11:00 that day.

"She told us that she fought back and kicked him in the testicles and bit his mouth to free herself," he said.

She didn't report the matter to police immediately as she first wanted to get help at the clinic for injuries to her face.

"When she was in the queue at the clinic, she noticed the suspect join the same queue, so she quickly slipped away and called the police with her cellphone," he said.

Kgaphola said the police allowed the suspect to get medical treatment first for his injuries.

"After the doctor finished examining him we took him to the police cell," he said.

- African Eye

October 15, 2008 | 5:50 AM Comments  0 comments

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An attempted rape suspect
Related to country: South Africa

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

Victim nabs suspect in queue

Thabisile Khoza

Sekhukhune - An attempted rape suspect who was arrested when his alleged victim spotted him standing in the same queue as her at a clinic, appeared briefly in court on Monday.

The 21-year-old man from Ga-Mashegwana village in Limpopo was arrested on Friday.

On Monday, he was not asked to plead to charges of attempted rape and assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm when he appeared in the Sekhukhune Magistrate's Court.

He was remanded in custody until November 3 for further investigation.

Sekhukhune police spokesperson Constable Dithomo Kgaphola said the alleged victim had phoned police from the clinic on Friday.

She claimed he had attacked her at about 11:00 that day.

"She told us that she fought back and kicked him in the testicles and bit his mouth to free herself," he said.

She didn't report the matter to police immediately as she first wanted to get help at the clinic for injuries to her face.

"When she was in the queue at the clinic, she noticed the suspect join the same queue, so she quickly slipped away and called the police with her cellphone," he said.

Kgaphola said the police allowed the suspect to get medical treatment first for his injuries.

"After the doctor finished examining him we took him to the police cell," he said.

- African Eye

October 15, 2008 | 5:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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Accused tell of sex orgy
Related to country: South Africa

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Pretoria - Both men accused of raping and beating up a young Pretoria woman near a hotel in February last year on Tuesday claimed she had consented to have sex with them.

Louis Brits, 20, of Mayville admitted that he had beaten up the woman after he and his friend Dirk Grobler, 23, had sex with her.

He said this was because she insisted they should go home with her and when they refused, started pushing them around.

Grobler said he had sex with the woman in her car and had pushed her away when she insisted he should come home with her.

However he claimed he had left Brits alone with her on a dark corner in the early hours of the morning and had nothing to do with an attempt to murder her.

Mother of three

A policeman earlier testified he believed the woman would not survive after he found her naked, bleeding and struggling to breathe on the street near the Maders Hotel in Mayville, Pretoria.

The woman, a mother of three young children, was now so severely disabled that she was confined to a wheelchair and could not speak coherently.

Brits claimed the victim had approached them in the hotel and insisted on dancing with them.

She then accompanied Grobler to her car, where they had sex and Brits saw Grobler hitting her.

Afterwards, she had accompanied them to a dark place around the corner, where she had sex with them both before having sex with Grobler again. No violence or force was involved, he said.

Did not want to be involved

He insisted that both of them had assaulted the woman when she started pushing them around and that he had left Grobler behind with her, but Grobler put the blame for the attack squarely on Brits' shoulders, insisting he was not involved.

Brits admitted that he had approached four vagrants who were sleeping in a doorway nearby and asked one of the men if he wanted to have sex with the woman as well.

Both accused admitted to removing the woman's car radio, but said it was the other one's idea.

Two homeless men earlier told the court how they and two friends had heard the woman being raped and beaten up.

The group had ignored the woman and left her dying in the street because "they did not want to get involved" and were afraid of the police.

The trial continues.