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You Are What You Eat!

May 22, 2014
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You Are What You Eat! - Grown Ups Magazine
What was that, honey? Even bees have a sweet tooth!

You Are What You Eat! - Grown Ups Magazine

Need help convincing your kids to eat healthier? Share this fun fact!

Bees in France recently began producing strange colored honey. The amber-colored honey inexplicably turned green and blue. Investigators discovered that the bees had been eating the candy coating from uncovered outdoor vats at a nearby waste-processing plant!

The vats have since been covered and beekeepers are hoping the honey returns to more normal colors.

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  • Katie

    That is both totally cool and rather frightening too! Who knows what might have been in those vats! Lol! 🙂

  • Interesting! I’m sure the beekeepers were a little taken back by the color change!

  • Krystle Kouture

    That is pretty scary! I eat way to many artificial food dyes!

  • Wow, that is crazy that the honey started changing colors! Definitely not good. I know I need to start eating better. We’re doing it in baby steps; we’ve been eating at home for dinner most nights now. Just need to work on it for lunches and breakfast.

  • Christine T

    Wow that is some crazy stuff! Scary and cool at the same time!

  • notageek4u

    I so read this article before, and it’s the crazy truth about what we eat!

  • Taylor Speikers

    Wow that’s crazy! Maybe I’m getting tan because of all the chocolate I eat 😉

  • Tatanisha Worthey

    Oh wow- what an interesting fact!

  • Nichole G

    My parents have bees and they fascinate the beejesus out of me! I shared this story with them and the pic that was on facebook and they thought it was pretty cool!

  • Interesting! I do believe that you are what you eat and should keep things clean and fresh.

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