The goal: the creation of an artificial honey stomach that traces the activity of the bee's stomach * CEO Ofir Devash: "BU Honey is committed to developing a breakthrough technology that will change the face of the global honey market and enable sustainable food products
After the cultured meat and the cultured milk came the turn of the honey. In the case of honey, it is important due to the collapse felt in the last twenty years of beehives, the reason for which is still unknown.
The Israeli foodtech company B-Yu Devash, under the management of Ofir Devash, submitted an application (through a subsidiary company) for approval of a patent in the US for Methods And Compositions For Producing Emulated Honey. Bio-Honey is developing an industrial process for the production of cultured honey, i.e. the production of honey without bees, and in order to achieve this goal, Bio-Honey is required to develop the ability, among other things, to create an artificial honey stomach that tracks the activity of the bee's stomach, while making use of biological enzymatic processes For the production of float honey until real honey is obtained.
The production of honey directly from the nectar
The purpose of the described method is to establish a new process that will allow increased creation of the important honey components from the nectar, independent of the bees, while controlling the amount of honey components, their composition and the relationships between them - until obtaining honey that is similar in composition to pure honey (from the source of bees) at the microscopic level. Creating honey with this method may be an industrial breakthrough and of significant economic and industrial value.
The honey production method described has many advantages: (a) quality advantage - honey produced by this method will not contain residues of pesticides, toxins and medicinal substances and/or antibiotics; (b) health advantage - since nectar will be produced, the cultured honey will retain its health properties and its anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties; (c) the bee welfare advantage - the process does not involve harming bees for the production of honey, which is a general global trend in which industrial processes are carried out without harming animals; and (d) the advantage of seasonality and flexibility - with the transition to cultured honey which is produced in a laboratory and on demand, the period of honey production may be continuous since there is no need for the intervention of bees, in pre-ordered quantities, on demand and according to certain ratios between ingredients and independent of the seasons.
To the extent that the application is approved, the requested patent may provide additional reinforcement over time to the intellectual property protection system of Bio-Honey, alongside additional existing applications of Bio-Honey for patents and additional applications, as they are submitted by Bio-Honey.
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It seems to me that there are some beekeepers here in the comments. How anti…
You present beekeeping as if man is protecting nature, and not the other way around. If farmers stop raising bees, and filter hives according to productivity (yes, they kill the queen of a hive that doesn't produce much, and replace her), then nature will 'do its thing' and disease-resistant wild bees will develop again.
Soon also a civilized womb, which will produce in a moving film civilized people who will live in civilized countries and fight in a completely civilized manner.
Some problems for the project:
A. There has been such a product for a long time....a "fake honey" syrup that is produced by heating regular sugar with the addition of acid so that the sucrose breaks down into fructose and glucose. Almost every year the Honey Council catches such counterfeiters
B. The raw material for honey is flower nectar. There is no effective way to imitate or collect flower nectar, which contains many substances and comes from a large number of flower species. It is possible to produce "fake honey" with some enzymatic additives and natural or synthetic fragrances, but it will never compare to real honey that contains a wide variety of natural substances in it.
third. It is equally possible to produce "civilized wine" by mixing water, alcohol, and a number of coloring and flavoring substances. Doesn't sound exciting right?
d. Honey is not produced while abusing bees. It is not meat, milk or eggs. In proper beekeeping, the bees produce surpluses of honey due to the optimal care that humans give them. In fact, honey is the product of low importance after the bees' pollination services for agriculture and nature. Without selling the honey it will not pay to raise bees. Since the survival of bees today is completely dependent on humans (they were infected with the varroa mite which wipes out the hive within a year or two without chemical treatment), a decrease in honey consumption will inevitably lead to a further reduction in the bee population
From whom does a patent application become news? In my opinion, not every advertising material that reaches you deserves to be included on the site.
In any case, if the patent is approved and the product reaches the shelves, it will be a very bad day for the planet. Artificial honey will reduce the economic attractiveness of beekeeping, and without them there will be a serious damage to the ability of many plants to continue to exist. The main thing is that "bio honey" will make some money.