Honey is nature's perfect food. While honey is primarily composed of fructose, glucose and water, it also contains other sugars as well as trace enzymes, minerals, vitamins and amino acids. Honey begins as nectar collected by bees as they forage from flower to flower. The nectar is stored in the bees "honey sac". When the bee returns to the hive a "receiving bee" helps to unload the nectar from its honey sac. Through a lengthy process (all performed by the ever busy and clever bee), moisture is removed from each drop of nectar. When the moisture content is just right, the nectar is sealed in the honeycomb to continue ripening into honey. To produce a single pound of honey, the honeybee must bring in approximately 75,000 loads of nectar. The color and flavor of honeys differ depending on the nectar source (the blossoms) visited by the honey bees. In fact, there are more than 300 unique types of honey available in the United States, each originating from a different floral source.