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.
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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.
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
She can sting me any time.
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.
Me too.
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.
Just saying that one man’s delicacy is another man’s inedible garbage.
EXACTLY!!
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.
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.
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.
As I was saying.
I remember when I used to buy comb honey in the grocery store. That was years ago.
Thanks- I appreciate your information.
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.
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