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It is not made by any other bee and is better for you, and now scientists know how native stingless bees make healthy honey. Researchers at the University of Queensland, Australia, in collaboration with Queensland Healthy Forensic and Scientific Services, have uncovered the secret of trehalulose -- a sugar that is only produced by the tiny insect and does not spike blood glucose levels when eaten. After experimenting with feeding these bees only sucrose or table sugar for 24 hours, they learned that the bees turned the sucrose into trehalulose. Based on this finding, researchers are now hoping to identify crops with high sucrose nectar to increase production of this special healthy honey.
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