Adding honey to sugar feed

[enrico]

Just a thought, if I added half a jar of honey to a cold mix of sugar water feed would the anto bacterial properties stop mould...... Might try it. Surely can't do any harm.

 

[Sutty]

Just a thought, if I added half a jar of honey to a cold mix of sugar water feed would the anto bacterial properties stop mould...... Might try it. Surely can't do any harm.

I doubt it will stop mould, but they find it faster!

 

[Oculentum]

I understood that it is the very low water (<20%) to high sugar (>80%) ratio that inhibited moulds and yeasts. No doubt there will be some who quibble over the percentages but it's there or thereabouts. If you dilute the honey in a sugar solution, what are you achieving?

 

[robmort]

Yes, honey eventually goes mouldy in the frames if it's too diluted (not ripe) so it's the water content that matters not any magical anti-bacterial properties.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

If you dilute the honey in a sugar solution, what are you achieving?

bugger nothing

 

[Oculentum]

Perzackly

 

[enrico]

I understood that it is the very low water (<20%) to high sugar (>80%) ratio that inhibited moulds and yeasts. No doubt there will be some who quibble over the percentages but it's there or thereabouts. If you dilute the honey in a sugar solution, what are you achieving?

Makes sense, thanks.

 

[Wilco]

The only benefit you might have is if beneficial gut bacteria in the honey seed the sugar syrup. But that's me jumping the gun a bit on my PhD student's research.

 

[Sutty]

The only benefit you might have is if beneficial gut bacteria in the honey seed the sugar syrup. But that's me jumping the gun a bit on my PhD student's research.

Would love to hear more

 

[Wilco]

Would love to hear more

I'll update when there's something solid to go on.