Raw honeycomb

"Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences." Plato

Honeycomb is made up of hexagonal wax cells made by bees, and each cell is full of raw honey. You can eat honeycomb, wax and all! After enjoying the burst of sweetness, some folks prefer to chew the wax like gum and discard it, but there’s no harm in swallowing it, either. In fact, the wax has some benefits of its own (more on that below).

Eating honeycomb might seem foreign to some, but it’s been a part of the human diet for millennia. Honey has been found at an archaeological site in the country of Georgia dating back 5,500 years, and evidence of honey collection was spotted in an 8,000-year-old cave painting in Spain. Experts believe that our ancestors used honey as medicine and a source of nutrition.