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Honey : Since ancient mes, honey has
been used as both a food and a medicine.
How to separate good eggs from spoiled
It’s very high in beneficial plant compounds
ones?
and offers several health benefits. Honey is
Take a container filled with hot water. par cularly healthy when used instead of
Now, put the eggs into the container. The
eggs which se le at the bo om of the refined sugar which is 100% empty calories.
container are good eggs. And the eggs Honey is produced by honeybees. Honey
floa ng on the water surface are spoiled bees work all day long to collect nectar from
eggs. the flowers. They store this nectar in their
hives. The nectar collected in hives is
obtained by man, which is called honey.
Bird flu is a common disease found in
poultry birds. It can kill thousands of
birds in a few days. It can also affect
human beings.
Meat : Meat is obtained from some poultry
Beehive Honeybee Honey
birds like cock, fowl, duck, animals like,
goats, sheep, pigs, and fishes. Some Honey is a nutri ous food as well as it is
important eatable fishes found in fresh water easily diges ble. It is also used to treat
are Rohu, Labeo, Handi, Oori and Chikka. cough and cold. The rearing of honeybees
Some important eatable fishes found in sea for commercial purposes is called apiculture.
water are Cod, Eel, Halibut, Pomfret, Tuna Oil : We obtain animal oil from fish and cod
and Salmon. liver oil. Oil is obtained generally from the
The rearing of fishes on a large scale is fishes found in seas. This oil is very rich in
called pisciculture. Meat is rich in proteins protein. Now, the pills of cod liver oil are
and fats specially the meat of fishes. also available at chemist shop.
The purity of milk can be known by using
a simple device called lactometer.
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