2:49 Now I know why most honey bottles have labels that say don’t feed to infants 1 year or younger. I was just wondering that today in the morning. I learn something new everyday.
Odd, the jar clearly states that the honey is "Unfiltered", there should be quite a lot of pollen if unfiltered. A beekeeper told me that there is no reason what so ever to filter honey unless you want to hide its origin, pollen is a bit like the honeys home address. If the story is true or not I have no idea but it sounds plausible.
@@sci-inspi I'm a hobby beekeeper in Florida. If you're interested, I wouldn't mind sending a small sample of honey when I harvest in June of this year. I don't filter or cook my honey. I just strain it to remove wax and any wayward bee parts.
@@guitarstitch Hi. Since you are a beekeeper, maybe youcan clear things out here... So, since childhood I'm hearing constantly that honey is kind of antibiotic, and in the beginning of this video, the last comment says "honey never expires", BUT, recentlymy mother brought home a 3 liter glas jar of honey, and it looks weird (I'd say more like wax, non-transparent), around 1/5 at the top is white (looks like sugar) and thelid on the jar is slightly bulging... So I googled it and different websites say different things about this, but most of them say that bulging lid means that the honey has started fermenting, and it is not safe to consume it (and that now it is only good for baking or making alcohol) - more than that, some websites say that honey can be contaminated with botulism spores (which is impossible to detect in food visualy, by taste or smell, is lethal if not diagnosed and treated very fast, and can survive even over half an hour of boiling and can only be kiled in the autoclave) and also that honey spoils (absorbs air humidity and starts fermenting) very quick if not placed in a sealed container... So these statements go against each other, and I am confused... Can you clear this out for me, maybe? Is it safe or not, after all? (Sorry if my English is not good enough to explain all this properly, but I hope you will get it right.)
@@Vic47 Hi! I'll be glad to share what I know as I understand it. Bear in mind, this is not medical advice and should be confirmed. 1) The opaque honey could be crystalizing. If you put the jar in a bath of warm water (around 46 degrees Celsius) and the honey clears up, it's just sugar. This is not a problem. Some honeys crystalize due to the nature of the nectar source, or due to low humidity. 2) Fermented honey is easily distinguishable by the smell. It will have a yeasty wine-like or bread-like smell to it. It's likely safe to eat, though may not be pleasant. The bulging lid could also be the result of a temperature differential from when it was put in the jar and where it is now. If it was bottled in colder temperatures, it will expand in warmer temperatures. 3) Honey can contain botulism and other bacterial spores. Spores are typically destroyed by the body and are not the same as active bacteria, which is why honey can still be considered antibiotic even though it may contain spores. As this video stated, the spores will remain dormant until a more suitable environment is presented. 4) I'm not sure that honey requires a perfectly sealed container to remain edible. Perfectly good honey over 1000 years old has been found in Egypt. In my experience, honey tends to crystalize more often than it absorbs moisture and begins to ferment - and I live in a high humidity climate. If the honey was harvested before it was capped (bees tend to cap at around 18% moisture), it is prone to fermenting. 5) Your English is fine, my friend. It is better than that of many who speak it as a sole language. I do hope this answers your questions.
This was awesome, thanks so much for sharing! I'd love to see a sample of a frequently used and properly cleaned Beauty Blender (makeup sponge). Specifically, I'd like to see a sample of the middle of the sponge, preferably one that has been used for 3 months. The Beauty Blender is supposed to be washed and set out to dry after each use and thrown away after 3 months. Just curious what may lurk within the sponge.. and hopefully it will encourage me to be more studious about replacing my sponge. I'd be happy to donate mine, for science! lol.
@@davecom3 urine is never sterile. Urethra, bladder, ureters, and calyces where urine flows can be home of few bacteria even if the person is healthy or doesn't have UTI
@@medjov1061 I think it's sterile in the bladder and becomes contaminated once it leaves. This is why so many people are under the impression urine is sterile.
@@sreemapaul4943 the high sugar content pulls the water out of the cells due to osmosis (similar to high salt content) so in way both statements are correct.
That honey has been ultra filtered and by USDA law is not legal to sell as honey. The law was passed to protect consumers from diluted and adulterated honey but it is probably the most unenforced law in existance. As a legitimate beekeeper I wish the government would enforce the statute.
And beyond that,china uses pesticides etc that are banned here. So they cheat,they filter.then sell out of other countries with the pollen fingerprint removed.
My grandma always has honey in her fridge. She has this tradition of using honey whenever somebody is injured. Now I know scientifically why. XD Thank you! ♡
i freaking love the bloodcells spinning around the microscope. you could do a 2 hour video with ambience music and red bloodcell floating around and i would watch it
When I was little, my brother had a heavy steal bar that was sharp at one end, fall on his leg. It opened a 6inch long gash in his leg down to the bone. We lived pretty far out in the country so we had to do most of our medical care ourselves. My dad washed the large wound, filled it with honey and ground comfrey leaves with golden seal and wrapped the wound tightly. After regular bandage changes and cleaning, within 6 months the wound was completely healed with absolutely no scar.
It's so amazing how big of a world we live in it actually is when we look at it at such a microscopic level. Just imagine our planets being droplets of water in an ocean and we just don't know it! It really mind blowing!
I wonder if we could slow down aging by creating an environment that has incredible antibacterial properties. A project that takes inspiration from how honey doesn’t have an expiration date.
In babies, their natural gut microflora is not robust. In general, until they are 2. For clostridium botulinum spores to colonize, it is much easier when there isn't an established microflora to help as it would first colonize in the gut. And he could do a spore stain to visualize the spores under the microscope as well. It only requires a couple dyes.
There is no way you aren't a Buckethead fan, making music like this. I'm actually impressed that it's original, maybe even more so than the experiment! Keep up the good work bro
I have a microbiology exam tomorrow and I swear this video was revision. I initially decided to watch for entertainment but atleast it helped me revise.😂😂
I'm surprised we didn't see... well... whatever honey's made up of under the microscope! No tiny crystals (then again your honey was fresh), no unique structures or clusters that give honey its characteristics (like the fat globules in milk)... It just looked like plain simple syrup when zoomed in!
Wow this channel is fantastic. Not only does it show stuff under the microscope but you give concise explanations that are really effective at explaining the biological, chemical and pathophysiological mechanisms of the topic. 10/10 thanks very much :)
Three questions answered in single vid 1 . What is osmosis 2. Why honey has long shelf-life l 3. Why is honey contraindicated for infants Literally nice dude, superb
The reason that honey should not be given to infants under 1 year old is not because of their immune system, but because of their undeveloped stomachs. Infants under 1 year old have very weakly acidic stomachs. This lack of acid allows bacterial spoors, including botulism, to pass into the small intestine where they can quickly grow unchecked. A normally acidic stomach destroys these spores before they pass into the small intestine, making it safe to eat honey. While 1 year olds have less developed immune systems, they are still very robust and have no problem keeping them alive. If you were to inject these spoors into the blood stream, their immune system would quickly destroy them.
All commercially prepared honeys are filtered, as there are gobs of wax, dead squished honeybees and other bee yard contaminants caught up in the process. Most large operations also heat pasteurize, which kills honey, as well as alters the flavor.
Yup, I have done two videos on Mold. Toxic house mold : th-cam.com/video/C-j_pb6G7FA/w-d-xo.html Mold on a hot dog wiener: th-cam.com/video/2SJkoPZzdP4/w-d-xo.html
As a hobbyist Mazer (I make Mead) I have handled a lot of honey. Filtered honey without pollen is not necessarily a bad thing, many suppliers do that to remove the wax bits without having to "render" it by heating it to float out the wax. However, Pasteurized honey is an abomination, once honey is heated it loses all its beneficial qualities..and a lot of flavor. Pollen is pollen whether in honey or in a flower so its removal is not really cutting anything from the honey.
Very interesting project. I would have thought you would have found some pollen at high magnification. I'm wondering if you could possibly find anything if you first put a test sample in a centrifuge for maybe 20 minutes. Anything suspended in the honey would eventually either sink to the bottom of rise to the top. You might have a better chance of finding anything in the sample if if can be concentrated that way. Just a thought.
My thoughts exactly and why I winder if the honey was really raw honey. I have seen raw honey and there should have been a ton of pollen in it. In fact, I have some raw comb honey and I can see with my bare eyes particles when held against the light. That makes me suspect that it's fake honey or ultra filtered Chinese honey
@@labella9291 Yes, even in cheap store bought honey I managed to find plenty of pollen (I did centrifuge though). In my country there are rules about the max % of non-EU honey allowed to be mixed with EU honey. If he had centrifuged it, he probably would've found pollen too though
@@foty8679 I don't know, I'm European and in my country there's quality control for honey. A honey label is obligated to mention if there's non-EU honey mixed in it. I'd expect America to have rules about it too, but it's also possible they have no regulations for honey. I know China is pretty good at food fraud and that there were issues in the past with honey being sold that was heavily mixed with syrup. I think if your honey stays really liquid and if it isn't made from acacia (although maybe there's other plants that also give liquid honey that I don't know about, my information is restricted my own country), there's a decent chance that it's mixed with syrup. My grandfather's honey was also always liquid for a long time though and I don't think there used to be acacia trees close to his hives. And he certainly didn't add syrup lol. I think we still have a pot that's partially liquid and his last time harvesting was 3 years ago I think.
Botulism spores produce the toxin only under certain anaerobic conditions. In the adult gut, they would never get a chance to do this, but they do in the less-colonised gut of an infant.
Very neat research. Great stuff. Honey is under rated but i wonder about how the bees survive when we keep taking their food. They say bee numbers are dropping...
The way bee farming works is: bee farmers literally build homes for the bees, and the bees have to move into them. Once they move in, the bee farmers start collecting the honey from the bees. I don’t think this hurts the wild natural bee population. And I think the bees and bee farmers are mutually benefiting each other.
Most bees also produce way more honey then they could possibly use. Not all of it is harvested. Certain infections can also wipe out colonies (both wild and farmed) if there is an outbreak in the area.
You used commercial honey. If you use local honey, you can see several pollen grains in the honey. There shapes are so interesting to watch. melissopalynology was my favourite practical.
not sure how much of a difference it made, but thanks for using raw honey. I bet the processed crap wouldn't have produced the bacterial colonies you were able to grow from the raw stuff.
This is why misconceptions are dangerous, honey itself doesn't care about bacteria, but it doesn't mean it's free of them. Also it doesn't mean you can just store it improperly and expect it to be fine, because you can get botulism from honey.
I never heard of this until your comment today. I looked it up and sure enough you are correct. Illegal Chinese honey is filtered to remove that pollen and make it untraceable and sold here in the USA. Maybe I can get some honey from a local beekeeper and do a video comparing the two.
I would like to see Propolis, the antibacterial coating inside a beehive that is also manufactured by the bees to sterilize the hive. Legend is that Roman soldiers carried a ball of it in a pouch for treating wounds.
If you dont see pollens in honey that means honey is not pure , you got cheated. We can easily say which honey it is , like lemon honey , mustered honey etc only by observing pollens of the honey.
2:49 Now I know why most honey bottles have labels that say don’t feed to infants 1 year or younger. I was just wondering that today in the morning. I learn something new everyday.
Well botulism can survive as spores in there. Adults can kill it before any harm is done but children can die from it
I believe their stomach acid is not as strong as adults as well but I might be wrong.
@@KanYprDalak they have similar acid to adults.
@@Allahuma.sali.ala.muhammad. oh oky then thanks.
@@KanYprDalak no problem!
Very informative.
Also clarified the statement: " UNSUITABLE FOR INFANTS UNDER 12 MONTHS" on jars.
You could at least put some bible verse that related to the topic. 🤨
@Jesus is LORD Please stop.. Commenting this everywhere makes you appear like a nutcase🤪
Not a thing in Europe. I wonder why
i think you might be the only person to mix blood with honey for SCIENCE lol
I literally bleed so much for this channel. I don't know how many times I needed red blood cells for a video.
@@sci-inspi we appreciate your sacrifice :)
@@sci-inspi you could try some white blood cells, even things out a bit :)
@@sci-inspi oh my
@@sci-inspi Well I bleed uselessly every month
Speaking of which, can you look at menstrual blood under the microscope...?
Seeing blood cells under a microscope rotating to their fullest is mind-blowing.
Usually I see that in 3d reconstruction-
Yeah that was by far the coolest thing I’ve seen under a microscope. 🤙🏻
@Jesus is LORD Christ is King!
@Jesus is LORD I used Jesus' hands to jerk myself off.
"Bee Defensin 1" has to be one of my favorite peptide names ever. Just so mysterious. I wonder what it does...
Protects you from people that, for some reason, dont like Jazz.
I agree.
Can we see like raw meat under the microscope and then cooked to to see if it actually has bacteria or not?
you can have a look of Bacteria in Milk by following my channel, Boiling Kill the Bacteria.
this is a good one, dirty water boiled: th-cam.com/video/lOEOQ9ChRXc/w-d-xo.html
That would be so difficult though cause you have to cut it thin enough so you can see light through it
@David Lawrence Abing how do u know for sure some never survive the heat?
Sorry dude I guess I do have a microscope myself, but no need to be rude..
dude literally stabs himself for our entertainment.
For our education*
Pinned himself*
@@Proton-Cannon1982 that one was for humor :D
A scientific gentleman*
Im diabetic so Im here to say you get used to it.
me: "it's almost 2:00 am. maybe i should sleep"
youtube: "hey, wanna see honey under microscope?"
That's me right now jajajaha
So
Too early
5:01 am here.
@@TaigiTWeseFormosanDiplomat Too early. 6am here.
It's 2:05 am now lol
Odd, the jar clearly states that the honey is "Unfiltered", there should be quite a lot of pollen if unfiltered. A beekeeper told me that there is no reason what so ever to filter honey unless you want to hide its origin, pollen is a bit like the honeys home address. If the story is true or not I have no idea but it sounds plausible.
Yup, that is true. I am looking at different honey brands and when I find one with pollen, I will make a video showing the pollen.
Pollen can bee seen with the naked eye!
@@sci-inspi I'm a hobby beekeeper in Florida. If you're interested, I wouldn't mind sending a small sample of honey when I harvest in June of this year. I don't filter or cook my honey. I just strain it to remove wax and any wayward bee parts.
@@guitarstitch Hi. Since you are a beekeeper, maybe youcan clear things out here...
So, since childhood I'm hearing constantly that honey is kind of antibiotic, and in the beginning of this video, the last comment says "honey never expires", BUT, recentlymy mother brought home a 3 liter glas jar of honey, and it looks weird (I'd say more like wax, non-transparent), around 1/5 at the top is white (looks like sugar) and thelid on the jar is slightly bulging... So I googled it and different websites say different things about this, but most of them say that bulging lid means that the honey has started fermenting, and it is not safe to consume it (and that now it is only good for baking or making alcohol) - more than that, some websites say that honey can be contaminated with botulism spores (which is impossible to detect in food visualy, by taste or smell, is lethal if not diagnosed and treated very fast, and can survive even over half an hour of boiling and can only be kiled in the autoclave) and also that honey spoils (absorbs air humidity and starts fermenting) very quick if not placed in a sealed container... So these statements go against each other, and I am confused... Can you clear this out for me, maybe? Is it safe or not, after all? (Sorry if my English is not good enough to explain all this properly, but I hope you will get it right.)
@@Vic47 Hi! I'll be glad to share what I know as I understand it. Bear in mind, this is not medical advice and should be confirmed.
1) The opaque honey could be crystalizing. If you put the jar in a bath of warm water (around 46 degrees Celsius) and the honey clears up, it's just sugar. This is not a problem. Some honeys crystalize due to the nature of the nectar source, or due to low humidity.
2) Fermented honey is easily distinguishable by the smell. It will have a yeasty wine-like or bread-like smell to it. It's likely safe to eat, though may not be pleasant. The bulging lid could also be the result of a temperature differential from when it was put in the jar and where it is now. If it was bottled in colder temperatures, it will expand in warmer temperatures.
3) Honey can contain botulism and other bacterial spores. Spores are typically destroyed by the body and are not the same as active bacteria, which is why honey can still be considered antibiotic even though it may contain spores. As this video stated, the spores will remain dormant until a more suitable environment is presented.
4) I'm not sure that honey requires a perfectly sealed container to remain edible. Perfectly good honey over 1000 years old has been found in Egypt. In my experience, honey tends to crystalize more often than it absorbs moisture and begins to ferment - and I live in a high humidity climate. If the honey was harvested before it was capped (bees tend to cap at around 18% moisture), it is prone to fermenting.
5) Your English is fine, my friend. It is better than that of many who speak it as a sole language.
I do hope this answers your questions.
Oh the joys of delay and reverb. Slap back is always a blast! Good to hear you are having fun.
You should do zamzam water under microscope
Yes, yes, yesssss!!!!
That's a nice idea I will do that ... check out my channel for updates
@@oatcookies_ there's actually something special,there a crystal
@@oatcookies_ no,there's a Japan scientist doing research on it,he found a snowflake like shape
@@oatcookies_ cool
0:59 the low pH is derived from an enzyme called glucose oxidase which converts glucose into gluconic acid
Correct, the same enzyme it is also responsible for the hydrogen peroxide levels.
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Sci- Inspi Any advice for an aspiring microbiologist?
@@GlowingEagle Study hard and never stop learning. And if you are not excited to learn something, you are in the wrong field.
Sci- Inspi I think i’m in the right field then! Thank you for being an inspiration to thousands!
This was awesome, thanks so much for sharing! I'd love to see a sample of a frequently used and properly cleaned Beauty Blender (makeup sponge). Specifically, I'd like to see a sample of the middle of the sponge, preferably one that has been used for 3 months. The Beauty Blender is supposed to be washed and set out to dry after each use and thrown away after 3 months. Just curious what may lurk within the sponge.. and hopefully it will encourage me to be more studious about replacing my sponge. I'd be happy to donate mine, for science! lol.
🫖🍵
Cool idea
Nope. I really don't think that you want to know.
this one is the best music on this channel so far, props to sci-inspi
@Wildlife Warrior ok?
amazing video, it would be nice to see urine under the microscope to see if its sterile or not. Can i get a heart too?
You get a heart too!
Urine is sterile as long as there are no infections in the person/urethra, or is that BS?
@@davecom3 urine is never sterile. Urethra, bladder, ureters, and calyces where urine flows can be home of few bacteria even if the person is healthy or doesn't have UTI
@@medjov1061 fair enough *puts down cup of piss*
@@medjov1061 I think it's sterile in the bladder and becomes contaminated once it leaves. This is why so many people are under the impression urine is sterile.
I always wondered about if anything could live in honey since I was told it kills germs.
Anything with a sugar content that high will be an unsuitable environment for microbes.
@@sundarpichai940 i thought that the less water content made it unsuitable for microbes...
@@sreemapaul4943 the high sugar content pulls the water out of the cells due to osmosis (similar to high salt content) so in way both statements are correct.
@@markburton5292 👍
I thought it was because of a peptide called bee defensin-1
What about fish sauce? Fermented anchovie sauce has got to be interesting to see under a microscope!
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WHERE'S THE LAMB SAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
That honey has been ultra filtered and by USDA law is not legal to sell as honey. The law was passed to protect consumers from diluted and adulterated honey but it is probably the most unenforced law in existance. As a legitimate beekeeper I wish the government would enforce the statute.
And beyond that,china uses pesticides etc that are banned here. So they cheat,they filter.then sell out of other countries with the pollen fingerprint removed.
My grandma always has honey in her fridge. She has this tradition of using honey whenever somebody is injured.
Now I know scientifically why. XD
Thank you! ♡
Honey need not be refrigerated, unless one enjoys the more viscous consistency.
i freaking love the bloodcells spinning around the microscope. you could do a 2 hour video with ambience music and red bloodcell floating around and i would watch it
So don't put honey in an infants blood stream, gotcha.👍
When I was little, my brother had a heavy steal bar that was sharp at one end, fall on his leg. It opened a 6inch long gash in his leg down to the bone. We lived pretty far out in the country so we had to do most of our medical care ourselves. My dad washed the large wound, filled it with honey and ground comfrey leaves with golden seal and wrapped the wound tightly. After regular bandage changes and cleaning, within 6 months the wound was completely healed with absolutely no scar.
I've been living my whole life thinking about what bacteria see on the other side of the microscope🤣
A Black Hole!
@@aapex1 More like a b*** H***. Okok sorry
😅😅 they don’t even think,they have been watched and recorded too!
they don't see :(
@@catapatata yeah, no eyes :(
So you cant inject honey. Ruined my plans.
It's so amazing how big of a world we live in it actually is when we look at it at such a microscopic level. Just imagine our planets being droplets of water in an ocean and we just don't know it! It really mind blowing!
Yeah ...that really could be reality.....in the grand scale of things....we really are microscopic!....what a crazy mind blowing thought!...
Yes !! And THAT’s what it is…… and maybe just a Universe among millions of others 🤔
I wonder if we could slow down aging by creating an environment that has incredible antibacterial properties. A project that takes inspiration from how honey doesn’t have an expiration date.
The shelf life of honey is forever.
In babies, their natural gut microflora is not robust. In general, until they are 2. For clostridium botulinum spores to colonize, it is much easier when there isn't an established microflora to help as it would first colonize in the gut. And he could do a spore stain to visualize the spores under the microscope as well. It only requires a couple dyes.
Those rods moving like buses in traffic jam ~ 😂
There is no way you aren't a Buckethead fan, making music like this. I'm actually impressed that it's original, maybe even more so than the experiment! Keep up the good work bro
Buckethead is awesome!
Thanks for not rushing the captions!
I like the variety in ads I get when I start watching new channels like this. Thanks Millipore Sigma for your ad on multicellular sporular dionulator
Me once again wiping my cell phone screen on my shirt cuz I’m not sure if the slide is dusty or if my screen is dirty 😂
Hello Sci-inpis, I have a question, where I can get a microscope like the one you have and what its value is.
I used a Leica ATC 2000, you can find a used one on the internet for like $200-$300 USD
Any Microscope with Good Optical configuration and a Trinocular port for Micro-Photography, If you are from India I can help youout.
@@sci-inspi ohh its almost 19000 inr
Inpis. Lol.
@@sci-inspi Damn! I thought they would be for 2000-4000
I have a microbiology exam tomorrow and I swear this video was revision. I initially decided to watch for entertainment but atleast it helped me revise.😂😂
The music reminds me of a dream I had once about that game metroid
Thats why they say children shouldnt have honey! Im going to remember that for life now! Thank you, I love facts like this
Fantastic video and also a good example of what having high blood sugar does to your cells!
I'm surprised we didn't see... well... whatever honey's made up of under the microscope!
No tiny crystals (then again your honey was fresh), no unique structures or clusters that give honey its characteristics (like the fat globules in milk)... It just looked like plain simple syrup when zoomed in!
For liquids and gases, refraction decreases with volume I think.
Wow this channel is fantastic. Not only does it show stuff under the microscope but you give concise explanations that are really effective at explaining the biological, chemical and pathophysiological mechanisms of the topic. 10/10 thanks very much :)
Thank you for posting this vid. --a%of people may not be aware of this fact--I only learned of this approx. 10 yrs. back. ✌💖
Thank you! This is so educational to me :) 🌻
Wow honey is such a marvel of nature!
Corona virus under a microscope
I was expecting a last shot with the caption "Now let's place these grown spore bacteria back to Honey."
Love the delay pedal
Three questions answered in single vid
1 . What is osmosis
2. Why honey has long shelf-life l
3. Why is honey contraindicated for infants
Literally nice dude, superb
4. And why I can never run out😏☺️
Playing guitar with a DD1 and a Phase 90. Ah, the memories.
Interesting how honey loses all its color under a microscope.
this is why honey is great for road rash and cuts!! used it before with great effect!
The reason that honey should not be given to infants under 1 year old is not because of their immune system, but because of their undeveloped stomachs. Infants under 1 year old have very weakly acidic stomachs. This lack of acid allows bacterial spoors, including botulism, to pass into the small intestine where they can quickly grow unchecked. A normally acidic stomach destroys these spores before they pass into the small intestine, making it safe to eat honey.
While 1 year olds have less developed immune systems, they are still very robust and have no problem keeping them alive. If you were to inject these spoors into the blood stream, their immune system would quickly destroy them.
2:41 damnn thats one traffic jam 😂
I'd love to see real unprocessed honey, probably lots of crazy stuff in that.
it would look just like it did in this video.
did you not read any of the text talking about honey's anti-microbial properties?
This guy did it back in 2016 th-cam.com/video/25qEGDhntGc/w-d-xo.html
@@LP620 That's not what I'm talking about, use your brain before commenting.
@@The_Cat_Authority no it wouldn't. Literally in the description he notes the lack of pollen in it. Room temp IQ.
I like how on the bottle it says unfiltered while in the description it says filtered.
All commercially prepared honeys are filtered, as there are gobs of wax, dead squished honeybees and other bee yard contaminants caught up in the process. Most large operations also heat pasteurize, which kills honey, as well as alters the flavor.
have you ever done a video of mould under a microscope? I think that would look really cool!
Yup, I have done two videos on Mold.
Toxic house mold : th-cam.com/video/C-j_pb6G7FA/w-d-xo.html
Mold on a hot dog wiener: th-cam.com/video/2SJkoPZzdP4/w-d-xo.html
1:37 lmaooooo poor red blood cells
As a hobbyist Mazer (I make Mead) I have handled a lot of honey.
Filtered honey without pollen is not necessarily a bad thing, many suppliers do that to remove the wax bits without having to "render" it by heating it to float out the wax.
However, Pasteurized honey is an abomination, once honey is heated it loses all its beneficial qualities..and a lot of flavor.
Pollen is pollen whether in honey or in a flower so its removal is not really cutting anything from the honey.
Very interesting project. I would have thought you would have found some pollen at high magnification. I'm wondering if you could possibly find anything if you first put a test sample in a centrifuge for maybe 20 minutes. Anything suspended in the honey would eventually either sink to the bottom of rise to the top. You might have a better chance of finding anything in the sample if if can be concentrated that way. Just a thought.
My thoughts exactly and why I winder if the honey was really raw honey. I have seen raw honey and there should have been a ton of pollen in it. In fact, I have some raw comb honey and I can see with my bare eyes particles when held against the light. That makes me suspect that it's fake honey or ultra filtered Chinese honey
@@labella9291
Yes, even in cheap store bought honey I managed to find plenty of pollen (I did centrifuge though). In my country there are rules about the max % of non-EU honey allowed to be mixed with EU honey. If he had centrifuged it, he probably would've found pollen too though
@@godhateseveryonewhodoesntr5977 Isnt american honey mixed with a lot of syrup?
@@foty8679
I don't know, I'm European and in my country there's quality control for honey. A honey label is obligated to mention if there's non-EU honey mixed in it. I'd expect America to have rules about it too, but it's also possible they have no regulations for honey. I know China is pretty good at food fraud and that there were issues in the past with honey being sold that was heavily mixed with syrup. I think if your honey stays really liquid and if it isn't made from acacia (although maybe there's other plants that also give liquid honey that I don't know about, my information is restricted my own country), there's a decent chance that it's mixed with syrup. My grandfather's honey was also always liquid for a long time though and I don't think there used to be acacia trees close to his hives. And he certainly didn't add syrup lol. I think we still have a pot that's partially liquid and his last time harvesting was 3 years ago I think.
@@foty8679 in the US, Honey is allowed to be mixed with a frankly sad amount of Corn Syrup.
Oh my God. Seriously i wanted information about hoey. You helped me a lot. Thank you very very much.
Great content/video! First time viewer, now a subscriber.
Was really cool to see the RBC shrink up like that...
I love your channel please don't ever stop!
🙏🏻 thank you so much for your high level of knowledge. You explain things so clearly and completely. Warm wishes from Minnesota!
Botulism spores produce the toxin only under certain anaerobic conditions. In the adult gut, they would never get a chance to do this, but they do in the less-colonised gut of an infant.
Nice selection on the music. Sweet.
We eat bacterias everyday so uhm I'm used to it now.. everything we eat has a bacteria under microscope
Very true, our digestive system has solution to most of these but not all so one should be careful.
I like honey, I put it in my tea and coffee, hope my blood cells don't dry up...ha
This channel never disappoints me :)
I was just eating honey on peanut butter toast yesterday and was wondering why you can’t feel a baby honey. Thank you
Who knew bee barf could taste so good?
Digging the music. Cool video, thanks.
This channel is addictive
Very neat research. Great stuff. Honey is under rated but i wonder about how the bees survive when we keep taking their food. They say bee numbers are dropping...
The way bee farming works is: bee farmers literally build homes for the bees, and the bees have to move into them.
Once they move in, the bee farmers start collecting the honey from the bees. I don’t think this hurts the wild natural bee population. And I think the bees and bee farmers are mutually benefiting each other.
Most bees also produce way more honey then they could possibly use. Not all of it is harvested. Certain infections can also wipe out colonies (both wild and farmed) if there is an outbreak in the area.
You used commercial honey. If you use local honey, you can see several pollen grains in the honey. There shapes are so interesting to watch. melissopalynology was my favourite practical.
The best cure for pollen grain allergy is our local honey.
not sure how much of a difference it made, but thanks for using raw honey. I bet the processed crap wouldn't have produced the bacterial colonies you were able to grow from the raw stuff.
Play more shots of the bacteria interacting please. I find those types of shots so interesting!
This is why misconceptions are dangerous, honey itself doesn't care about bacteria, but it doesn't mean it's free of them. Also it doesn't mean you can just store it improperly and expect it to be fine, because you can get botulism from honey.
I really like your vids!
At first all I could see was a greenish brown screen. But you always make it cool 😁
Lol I found a way to make it interesting.
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Seeing those red blood cells, really tickled me pink.
How cool. :)
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Wow, very cool! Thank you so much for sharing!
Blood and honey sounds like a delicious combination!
Wish the next topic is about poo. I want to see it in microscope with different colors. Thanks
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Medical grade honey is used in chronic wounds to help them heal.
What are spores again? Feel like I'm about to spiral down an internet rabbit hole for the next 2 hours lol.
It's amazing that all this is because of bee vomit.
I expected to see lots of pollens in the honey. Wonder if Manuka honey would be more sterile?
I was told that real honey contains pollen and that's how to spot the fake stuff. It makes me wonder about this batch or was I misinformed?
@@aapex1 I heard the same too.
I never heard of this until your comment today. I looked it up and sure enough you are correct. Illegal Chinese honey is filtered to remove that pollen and make it untraceable and sold here in the USA. Maybe I can get some honey from a local beekeeper and do a video comparing the two.
Note to self: do not inject honey into bloodstream, thank you for the knowledge....
Very interesting, thank you! I eat one table spoon of honey every day.
Sorry I didn’t reach the conclusion is honey good or bad???
Fun fact: honey never spoils, so after trillions of years you could still eat it!
I’d like to try a trillion year old honey personally.
It would taste the exact same if it were made back then.
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I don't think theres anything that as sweet but kind of miraculous as honey out there xD its just amazing
I'm a little disappointed there weren't any microscopic bees lol!
It's interesting to see non-filtered beer under microscope 🤔😍
Can you show Coronavirus under microscope please.
Corona is too small to be visible under a microscope
Honey never goes off.Unlike jam which goes mouldy.
This was fun and I liked the music.
I would like to see Propolis, the antibacterial coating inside a beehive that is also manufactured by the bees to sterilize the hive. Legend is that Roman soldiers carried a ball of it in a pouch for treating wounds.
If you dont see pollens in honey that means honey is not pure , you got cheated.
We can easily say which honey it is , like lemon honey , mustered honey etc only by observing pollens of the honey.
Who would've guessed that bee vomit is an inhospitable living environment
seeing your poor, poor desiccated blood cells made me super thirsty lol. I also agree with Dav3 and appreciate the sacrifice!