Mel

Mel (-lis, n) est cibus dulcis ab apidis ex nectari florum factus. Varietas a domesticatis apidis generis Apis effecta est varietas usitatissime commemorata, ab apiariis conlecta et ab hominibus consumpta.

Mel cum panibus.

Mel

Valor nutritivus per 100 g
Vis nutritivus	1272 kJ
Carbohydrata	82.4 g
Sacchara	82.12 g
Fibrum	0.2 g
Pingue	0 g
Proteinum	0.3 g
Aqua	17.10 g
Riboflavinum	0.038 mg (3%)
Niacinum	0.121 mg (1%)
Acidum pantothenicum	0.068 mg (1%)
Vitaminum B6	0.024 mg (2%)
Folatum	2 μg (1%)
Vitaminum C	0.5 mg (1%)
Calcium	6 mg (1%)
Ferrum	0.42 mg (3%)
Magnesium	2 mg (1%)
Phosphorus	4 mg (1%)
Kalium	52 mg (1%)
Natrium	4 mg (0%)
Zincum	0.22 mg (2%)
Valores per centum secundum normas CFA Fons: USDA Nutrient Database

Apes nectar in mel convertunt ratione vomendi, et hunc vomitum conservant pro cibo principali in favis cereis intra alvearia. Rationes apiculturae immoderatum mellis opus excitant ut nimium ex colonia conligi potest.

Mel ab insectis meliponinis confectum, aut silvaticarum aut ab hominibus conservatarum, "mel meliponinorum" appellari licet. Proprietates valde dissimiles habet.

Bibliographia

Fontes antiquiores

• Hippocrates, De regimine acutorum 53-57
  • Epidemica 7.8
• Aristoteles, Historia animalium 553a17-554b21, 623b5-627b22
• Conon mythistoricus 35
• Varro, De re rustica 3.16
• Vergilius, Georgica lib. 4
• Dioscorides, De materia medica 2.101-103
• Columella, De agri cultura 9.2-9.16
• Plinius, Naturalis historia 21.70-85, 22.107-115
• Palladius, Opus agriculturae 1.37-38 et alibi
• Deipnosophistarum epitome 46e-47a

Eruditio

• Eva Crane, The Archaeology of Beekeeping. Londinii: Duckworth, 1983
• Eva Crane, The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting. Londinii: Duckworth, 1999
• "Honey" in Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-211579-0) pp. 384-385; Tom Jaine, ed., 2a ed. 2006; 3a ed. 2014
• "Honey" in Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking (Novi Eboraci: Scribner, 1984; Londinii: Allen & Unwin, 1986) pp. 369-380
• Frederick J. Simoons, Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry (CRC Press, 1991) pp. 376-378 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)

Nexus interni

• Apicultura
• Bellaria
• Mel insanum
• Saccharum

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad mel spectant.

• "Beekeeping and Sustainable Livelihoods," apud Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• De melle apud U.S. National Honey Board
• "Value-Added Products From Beekeeping," apud Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Varietates mellis, cum photogrammatibus, apud Mieli d' Italia