Honey is made up of sugars, minerals, seven of the Vitamin B Complex, Vitamin C dextrose, plant pigments, enzymes, and other items. The colour, which depends upon the type of flowering plant the nectar is drawn from, has no effect on the nutritional value.
Clover produces honey with the lightest colour and the mildest flavour.
Buckwheat honey is the darkest in colour and the strongest tasting. The queen can lay as many as 2000 eggs in one day. The male drone bees are short and heavy-set and do not gather nectar. The female worker bees are the ones that have the stingers and are the ones that do the cleaning, guarding the entrance, building combs, feeding the brood, gathering nectar and pollen for honey processing. Bees are valuable because they cross-pollinate flowering plants and fruit blossoms.