Posted on 10/19/2012 5:01:39 PM PDT by Dallas59
First we find out that we're getting ripped off in the fish department. Now, a new study commissioned by Food Safety News shows that most of the honey on supermarket shelves isn't really honey.
More than 60 types of honey from several major supermarkets, drug stores, and shopping clubs--including Stop and Shop, Safeway, Wegman's,A&P, Kroger, CVS, Walgreens, Sam's Club, and Walmart--were tested by Vaughn Bryant, a professor at Texas A&M University. He found that most of them had all of the pollen filtered out. Without any pollen, it's impossible to figure out whether the honey came from a safe source, or whether it's even actual honey at all; much of the ultra-filtered honey may come from China, may be contaminated, or may be diluted with High Fructose Corn Syrup.
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Most of the stuff you get at the supermarket is trash.
You can also raise your own bees. It’s a pain given all the exotic pests, but they’re really a cool bug. And you’ll get the most expensive “free” local honey available
If there’s any interest, we might get a FR beekeeper pinglist going.
Eat manuka? It’s used for treating wounds.
Is it any good?
Middle easterners are crazy about honey and have some of the best.
“I don’t see how you could fake honey with fructose corn syrup unless you’ve never tasted honey before ...”
Most people have never tasted the real McCoy.
What say you Dallas59? I think we’d like to hear from you too. I mean, it is your post.
“This is part of my prepper supplies and I want honey with the longest life which is, without pollen it lasts forever.”
Honey generally doesn’t rot. It’s very antibiotic. Some varieties, most famously manuka, are used to treat wounds. The pollen in it doesn’t matter.
“‘Real’ locally produced honey is $10 to $15 a qt.”
A quart of honey weighs 12 lbs, give or take (moisture content may cause slight variation). That makes your locally produced honey $3.33 to $5 a lb.
I get local Ohio Amish produced honey $12 for 5 lbs, or $2.40 per lb. It is real honey, and it has not been pasturized.
I’m into Agava nectar now.
“I’m even suspicious of venders selling honey at farmers markets, probably most of it you can tell whether it is the real thing by the taste but you never really know, they might of bought an imported 50 gallon drum of honey from China and filled their own jars up with it with their own phony labels.”
There are beekeeping clubs in most cities. Go through them and you will be getting the real thing.
Getting the honey out of that hive as it is will kill the hive and the bees are more valuable than the honey.
If you want to get into beekeeping, you’ve already got a bee source.
If there’s interest, we might start a FR beekeeper pinglist.
Seem to recall that one of the many businesses Osama bin Laden had cash coming in from was honey— from Yemen I think. Stray thought. Cash crop/commodity that is tradeable and untraceable.
SHHHHHHHH!
Local honey here in VA goes for $8 up a pound. I get my own from Amish sources.
Obviously you meant to say a ‘gallon’ -not a ‘quart’- weighs 12 pounds.
The fellow I got my honey from offered it with or without comb- and a BIG comb- in the jar. For the same price and said people snapped up the jars with comb. Me, I’d rather have more honey for the price even though I enjoy comb.
There's a shop in Oakland, CA also run by Middle Eastern (Arabic?) guys.
Yeah, that was alleged but I’m not sure much came of it. Some of the best/most expensive honey in the world comes from there. One variety is called sidr honey and is incredibly expensive.
Thanks for the link. I got a kick out of their marketing for bee removal. They keep them alive!!
(So what beekeeper wants dead bees?)
“Not surprising at all, since Honey is natures HFCS.”
No, honey is not natures HFCS...HFCS is a manufactured monosaccharide called ‘fructose’, and has a detrimental effect on the liver. The monosaccharides in honey are levulose and dextrose, same as in fruit. There are also numerous other di and trisaccharides along with enzymes, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals in honey that are not in HFCS, the manufactured ‘fructose’.
Some reading this would say that levulose and fructose are the same thing...this is not so, though the use of the name levulose has been displaced by the name fructose to describe the sugar in honey and in fruit.
Man-made fructose would have to have the chemical formula changed for it to be levulose, so it is not levulose. Saying fructose is levulose is like saying that margarine is the same as butter.
LOL, is she old enough to vote?
“Obviously you meant to say a ‘gallon’ -not a ‘quart’- weighs 12 pounds.”
Yes, thank you. A gallon weighs 12 lbs, a quart 3 lbs. The math in the previous post is correct for the cost per lb, I divided the cost per quart by 3.
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