Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn't Honey
foodsafetynews ^ | NOV 07, 2011 | ANDREW SCHNEIDER

Posted on 11/08/2011 9:14:13 AM PST by opbuzz

More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News.

The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of products labeled "honey." The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a flower would make the nectar flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies.

(Excerpt) Read more at foodsafetynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; honey; pollen
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120121-135 last
To: 7MMmag

When I was a kid, my dad had a buddy that kept bees. He did take the “bad” honey from people(yes I know it only needed to be heated until it melted) and claimed he fed it to his bees. But now I’m wondering if he was lying about that and was actually just heating it up and mixing it with the honey he harvested and sold.


121 posted on 11/08/2011 8:18:08 PM PST by mamelukesabre
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 120 | View Replies]

To: Beeman

I like dark honey. I have some from 17 years ago that was the best and has not crystallized. It was from a swamp weed during a very dry summer. The bees worked extra hard that summer due to lack of flowers


122 posted on 11/08/2011 9:08:38 PM PST by dennisw (What good is a used up world and how could it be worth having - - Sting)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: AngelesCrestHighway

She can sting me any time.


123 posted on 11/08/2011 9:18:55 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll vote for Mitt Romney when Hell freezes over. He's as bad or worse than Zero.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: mamelukesabre
He could have very well fed it to his bees. If it has crystallized once, it will do so again. Why risk it, particularly when bees need some amount of stores to get them through dearth.

Recycling older crystallized honey would allow one to take more of the fresher stuff away from the bees, harvesting and selling that.
It doesn't make much sense to go to lengths imagining him blending it with other honey, when the bees need a fair amount just to make it through winter.

124 posted on 11/08/2011 9:34:53 PM PST by 7MMmag (I've always been miserly)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 121 | View Replies]

To: metmom

Me too.


125 posted on 11/09/2011 6:03:13 AM PST by tillacum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies]

To: magslinger
How do you feel about fermented cow’s milk?

Oh no you don't.
I will not allow you to turn this into a cheese thread.
Just stune my beeber and have it over with.

126 posted on 11/09/2011 6:27:31 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 98 | View Replies]

To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Just saying that one man’s delicacy is another man’s inedible garbage.


127 posted on 11/09/2011 3:44:13 PM PST by magslinger (To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 126 | View Replies]

To: 7MMmag
I guess that was what you yourself were trying to say? I'd love it if they said, "here, take this junk off our hands."

EXACTLY!!

128 posted on 11/09/2011 5:54:42 PM PST by teenyelliott (Obama warned if he loses the election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 120 | View Replies]

To: opbuzz

Your best bet is to find a local bee farmer and get local honey directly from him. Not only is it the best honey you can get it also helps your immune system enhance its own ability to deal with your local pollen.


129 posted on 11/09/2011 6:41:52 PM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bert

If the honey is gone, eaten or removed, they have to be fed.
I don’t remember how they fed the sugar to them. Smokers were used control the bees. My Dad had nearly a 1/4 mile
of hives, single & 2 story at the peak. they were on a terrace up grade of a pecan orchard. He moved some of the
singles to other locations in the spring. He sold the bees
and around 1100 white goats in 1946 or 7 except 4 hives, used a bush & bog tiller (2,5 or 3’ disc) to dispose of some
tangle of late blooming brush that was down grade of a cotton field, planted grass and stocked more cattle. He also was in the piling business with a partner from 1942-1945, he bought the land, they cut the piling, pecker wood sawmill moved in for timber, sold the land. Primary
business was wholesale and retail nursery. As I got in business myself I could not believe how he kept things running
so smooth.


130 posted on 11/10/2011 9:41:33 AM PST by TweetEBird007
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: SkyDancer

Confirming my point I think. you can’t prove all the honey in clover honey comes from clover and you can’t prove all the bee activity in organic honey was connected to organic fields.


131 posted on 11/12/2011 9:24:14 PM PST by Rippin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Rippin

As I was saying.


132 posted on 11/12/2011 9:30:32 PM PST by SkyDancer ('If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate ")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 131 | View Replies]

To: dynoman

I remember when I used to buy comb honey in the grocery store. That was years ago.


133 posted on 11/17/2011 8:42:19 PM PST by handmade
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: bert

Thanks- I appreciate your information.


134 posted on 11/17/2011 9:19:44 PM PST by handmade
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 91 | View Replies]

To: 7MMmag; mamelukesabre; handmade
mamelukesabre doesn't realize one simple but very important fact. Bees are intelligent. They don't act randomly without purpose. The same is true of beekeepers. The phrase "feed the bees" means supplementing their stores. The bees are experts at what they do and have minds of their own. They make a quality product that is the product of thousands of years of learning how

While some might take old honey and dilute the good, any bee keeper knows that bees don't acknowledge the fact it is old and will lap it up from the feeder and rapidly deposit it back into the combs for use as needed.

Regarding old honey or any honey and crystallization. The crystallization can easily be reversed by soaking the jar in warm water. The modern way is to zap it a few seconds in a microwave and the crystals will re liquify.

As with most fields of knowledge, several Freepers are well versed. This thread contains a large body of real hard won knowledge.

135 posted on 11/18/2011 4:45:01 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 124 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120121-135 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson