Well, I'm certainly disappointed.
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 ...
I stick with inorganic honey, it's safer.
Well, I'm certainly disappointed.
Don’t you want local honey so you’ll take in some local pollen for allergy reasons?
No such thing as organic honey. You can’t control where the bees go for nectar.
I always enjoy a roll in the clover with some honey.........
We have tupelo honey here. The need are pretty limited to the nectar.
that’s like saying there is no such thing as clover honey because the bees might take in some apple blossom while they are at it.
If you want truly delicious honey, the best bet is either to find a store offering comb honey, or a local honey dealer. Comb honey is an odd treat, and children in particular seem to gobble it down. Local honey dealers are careful to indicate what *kind* of honey they have, as there are subtle flavor differences between clover, orange, wildflower and other types.
Importantly, though very hard to find, there is medicinal honey, which is very unpredictable. Unpasteurized honey *may* contain a whole slew of both antibiotics and anti-inflammatory chemicals, or it may not.
But if it does, it is the almost ideal treatment for gum disease, because it will both kill bacteria, and reduce the inflammation the bacteria hides behind. So you could literally brush your teeth with honey. Unfortunately Pasteurization destroys all these good effects.
Yup.
Thanks for the reply.
bfl
For some reason, I have never even liked honey to begin with.
Where the bees go isn’t what makes it organic, what you do AFTER getting it from the bees is what does.
I see that Trader Joe’s isn’t listed.
That’s good, I have bought their honey for some time.
Or that saying a jar of honey is clover honey because some bee might have flown over a clover patch.
Trust me....it has all the pollens the bees can gather!
IT AM GOOOOOOD!
‘Keep here - locate local honey on a state by state basis and evaluate your trust of that individual.
http://www.honeyo.com/org-US_State.shtml
Not us though - we’ve more individual contacts than we can provide for.
It is possible to feed your bees pure sugar. I bet there’s no pollen in the honey they produce when this is done.
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