Posted on 01/03/2023 12:20:20 PM PST by Red Badger
Dipped in honey... the ONLY way to eat locusts.
“What I always heard is that you want honey from your region i.e., maybe your own state or even county, as it is from local plants...and in addition to cardiac help it might help with allergies/inflammation/local immunity. Who knows?”
Honey, even if it is local or from your own property, will not help your allergies. The pollen that makes you sneeze and the pollen the bees bring into their hive for protein and raise their brood are two different things and honey, even raw honey contains very little pollen.
Honey is better for you than sugar and it digests faster. Honey is probably always a better option than sugar, but by no means is honey a miracle cure.
“According to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto, consuming raw honey from a single floral source may have significant benefits for cardiometabolic health.”
I buy whatever brand is the cheapest. Thanks, Brandon!
I have splurged on some really good, locally sourced honey through the years, though.
The difference is like Night and Day. :)
Our Mom was an advocate of Cod Liver Oil.
Ugh! *SHUDDER*
Now you’ve done it! The rest of this thread will be, ‘Ginger v. Maryanne!’ ;)
Mary Ann.
Well, we obviously know where YOU stand on the subject, LOL!
In 1993 I married Mary Ann. The wisdom and joy of that decision has only been surpassed by accepted Jesus Christ as my savior eight years later. Love my Mary Ann, My Darlin’.
Any beekeeper will tell you that “clover” honey is not made from clover alone. Likewise the other designations. Nobody tells the bees what flowers to visit, except maybe the queen.
Love it.
Great answer!
I doubt I can consume enough to be beneficial, as I am Type II.
;^) Some thing happens with cooking topics...
“Single floral source”
My father kept bees along with farming in southeast Nebraska. He sold honey by mail during WWII. Sugar was rationed, but the government didn’t care about honey.
Probably early August smart weed would bloom in the fields which had produced wheat and/or oats and were not plowed yet. The fields were vast zones of pink flowers. In the hot dry summers nothing else was blooming that time of year. The bees would gather the necter and would store it. It was very dark and tasted so bad that hardly anyone would eat it. Dad left it mostly for the bees to overwinter on. However, there was/were one customer who special ordered the smart weed
Bees don’t care how the honey tastes, but people do.
You want the bees to store the fall goldenrod for the winter and harvest honey from earlier in the season but that is not always an option. You harvest what you can take and always leave enough for the colony to get through winter and summer dearths.
Another grant money grift. The ancient Egyptians knew all about the benefits of raw honey and used it extensively.
Honey has gone thru the roof here. A small jar of honey is now $5......................
I started getting honey from a local beekeeper and noticed I stopped having hay fever soon afterwards. Now it's a morning staple with some tea.
Well I was thinking about that other Honey, but well anyway, our local farmer’s market (local stuff) sells local honey for $23 a quart, quality stuff.
If you the honey helps with your seasonal allergies, that is great and keep eating honey and make sure that it is raw honey not simply labeled “Local Honey.” The term Local Honey means very little to do with where the honey is produced and where it is bought.
As for seasonal allergies, the most common causes are ragweed, tree, grasses and mold.
Obviously, bees do not get nectar from mold but ragweed, grasses and oak, pecan and cedar, do not produce nectar.
Furthermore, people are allergic to pollen that is aerosolized and bees gather pollen in its solid form.
AS for honey, honey is made of sucrose, glucose, and around 17% water and less that one half of one percent pollen.
If the honey helps, keep eating the honey and keep your local beekeeper in business.
My wife, the kids and I all have seasonal allergies and we eat a lot of honey to the point of having jars labeled to the month or even the week the honey was produced.
The honey may ease some symptoms, the enzymes in honey are beneficial and be better for your than sugar, but the science does not show that honey is a large factor in curing allergies.
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