Do you love honey?

Do you love honey? Did you know that we add honey into our Black Ice Tea formula for that natural sweetness. Learn more about honey in our Sweet Fun Facts 
It offers a seemingly simple natural sweetness to one of our favorite summer products, Organo Gold Black Ice, which of course is iced black tea flavored with natural honey. Yet there’s nothing simple — but everything natural — about honey. We thought we’d take a look the effort behind this miraculous ingredient.

• To produce a single jar of honey, foraging honey bees have to travel the equivalent of three times around the world.
• The average bee will produce only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime!
• Honey stored in an airtight container will never spoil. Sealed honey vats found in King Tut’s tomb still contained edible honey, despite over 2,000 years beneath the sands.
• Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes. Their sense of smell is so precise it can differentiate hundreds of different floral varieties, and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from meters away.
• A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
• Bees must visit approximately two million flowers to make just one pound of honey.
• The honey bee’s wing stroke is incredibly fast — about 200 beats per second, which is what produces their distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
• A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen bee. Worker honey bees are female, live for about six weeks, and do all the work.

So — the next time you enjoy a refreshing cup of Black Ice, think about all of the effort that goes into making that tiny dash of honey that adds a lovely natural sweetness to this amazing summer beverage!