Because you can make them without the “artificial” ingredients – meaning lab made, as opposed to plant or animal based – you find in the cough drops at stores. You can make them from locally farmed raw honey and support your farmer’s market. You can use an elderberry syrup made by...
Added note - I use honey medicinally, occasionally in bread making to spare bees. Bees do the work of pollinating our global plant food. They are badly over abused and poisoned by pesticides. We have a responsibility to do everything possible to preserve them and their precious work and pro...
2. After collecting the nectar from almost 150 flowers and filling the baskets with pollen, the bees return to the hive. On the road, they add an enzyme to the nectar that will start breaking the complex plant sugar down, into glucose and fructose. All the process takes place on this wa...