Posted on 09/24/2013 2:05:20 PM PDT by Excellence
So was this actual real honey or artificial honey?
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/#.UkIAmb7n9jo
Wow. It’s a good thing we have the government to save us from cheap honey.
Sounds like the frozen seafood business twenty years ago....
All of the above. I will from now on only buy local. I might even drive to the bee farm. Whatever honey I find in the house is going in the trash.
The big honey companies microfilter not just to remove pollen (which as the article states makes the origins hard to trace). The big reason is that Americans won’t buy honey that’s crystallized. Ultrafiltration can delay or prevent crystallization. The supermarkets would be stuck with a ton of unsellable crystallized honey.
The folks at food Safety think that if it has no pollen it’s not “real” honey, I think that’s a bit extreme.
It is possible though to adulterate honey with HFCS, in which case it’s not honey. HFCS and honey are very close chemically, a water solution of fructose, glucose, and a few other very minor constituents.
Actually, it is - considering that it’s full of chemicals and adulterated with lots of crap.
Bless you.
“We’re bee keepers. We’ve known for a long time imported honey isn’t real. We can taste the difference. “
Remember when Clinton cut a deal with China to let them sell “honey” at $0.50 a pound wholesale? I think at the time wholesale “bakery honey” was at $1.35 in the US.
My numbers are from memory and probably not exact. I kept several hundred thousand bees at the time.
The stuff coming in tasted like it had never been bugspit.
Buy Pitcairn honey. Get it straight from the source.
Or have your own hive. Our bees make some real good honey...and it's very satisfying to know it comes from your own back yard.
I'm torn on this. I don't want adulterated crap from second and third-world coutries (or first-world, for that matter) in my food chain, but I also disagree with the heavy-handed tactics of the fed.
The big reason is that Americans wont buy honey thats crystallized.
Nothing a little warm water can't fix.
There’s a honey seller at the farmer’s market I’ll check out. We live in the high desert, and local honey has a certain quality that sets it apart.
How old school is this? My town has a local honey producer with an unmanned ‘honor system’ stand. There are still pockets of the old America left, hurrah!
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