75 Percent of all ‘Honey’ Sold in Stores Contains no Honey at All Just because thos

[Serpo]

WTF is this true




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Just because those cute little bear-shaped bottles at the grocery store say “honey” on them does not necessarily mean that they actually contain honey. A comprehensive investigation conducted byFood Safety News(FSN) has found that the vast majority of so-called honey products sold at grocery stores, big box stores, drug stores, and restaurants do not contain any pollen, which means they are not real honey.
For the investigation, Vaughn Bryant, one of the nation’s leading melissopalynologists, or experts in identifying pollen in honey, and director of the Palynology Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University, evaluated more than 60 products labeled as “honey” that had been purchased by FSN from ten states and the District of Columbia.
Bryant found that 76 percent of “honey” samples purchased from major grocery store chains like Kroger and Safeway, and 77 percent of samples purchased from big box chains like Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart, did not contain any pollen. Even worse were “honey” samples taken from drug stores like Walgreens and CVS, and fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and KFC, 100 percent of which were found to contain not a trace of pollen. The full FSN report with a list of all the pollen-less “honey” brands can be accessed here:
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/… (http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/)
So what is all this phony honey made of? It is difficult to say for sure, as pollen is the key to verifying that honey is real. According to FSN, much of this imposter honey is more likely being secretly imported from China, and may even be contaminated with antibiotic drugs and other foreign materials.
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Most conventional honey products have been illegally ultra-filtered to hide their true nature
According to FSN, the lack of pollen in most conventional “honey” products is due to these products having been ultra-filtered. This means that they have been intensely heated, forced through extremely tiny filters, and potentially even watered down or adulterated in some way http://worldtruth.tv/75-percent-of-all-honey-sold-in-stores-contains-no-honey-at-all/prior to hitting store shelves.

[Dogman]

Yea, there is a bunch of it out there that has no pollen. Its all filtered out.

They are taking some of the good out of the goody, when they do that.

[Shami-Amourae]

That's why I only consume raw honey now...

It's one of the few forms of sugar I will consume, sparingly. Any form of refined sugar should be avoided at all costs, IMO.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

I've been using this and it tastes a lot better than filtered honey. It tastes creamy.

http://www.amazon.com/YS-Organic-CERTIFIED-Unprocessed-Unpasteurized/dp/B00014JNI0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347587582&sr=8-1&keywords=raw+honey

YS Organic Bee Farms CERTIFIED ORGANIC RAW HONEY 100% CERTIFIED ORGANIC HONEY Raw, Unprocessed, Unpasteurized

[Mouse]

We only eat local, or near local raw honey. It has a warning to not feed it to kids under 1 year, since they may not have developed defenses against pollen. It's yummy. The stuff in stores is probably 90% CHINA fake honey or possibly poisoned honey. This was on teevee a couple years ago how the honey is mostly chinese and who the hell knows what is in it.

[vacuum]

We only eat local, or near local raw honey. It has a warning to not feed it to kids under 1 year, since they may not have developed defenses against pollen. It's yummy. The stuff in stores is probably 90% CHINA fake honey or possibly poisoned honey. This was on teevee a couple years ago how the honey is mostly chinese and who the hell knows what is in it.

I bought some honey locally (well, ~20 miles away), and it was raw honey, a nice color, and had the same warning label on it. However, it seemed pretty thin to me. It wasn't very viscous. I'm personally wondering what's stopping the local place from just adding corn syrup to the honey. It would be like printing money since they sell the stuff for a premium. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

[Mouse]

I bought some honey locally (well, ~20 miles away), and it was raw honey, a nice color, and had the same warning label on it. However, it seemed pretty thin to me. It wasn't very viscous. I'm personally wondering what's stopping the local place from just adding corn syrup to the honey. It would be like printing money since they sell the stuff for a premium. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

Rednecks are thieves too. I cannot tell you. My wife wants to just start her own hive and be done with it.

[undgrd]

We only eat local, or near local raw honey. It has a warning to not feed it to kids under 1 year, since they may not have developed defenses against pollen. It's yummy. The stuff in stores is probably 90% CHINA fake honey or possibly poisoned honey. This was on teevee a couple years ago how the honey is mostly chinese and who the hell knows what is in it.

I buy our honey from my local farmer Pete. He told me the same thing but encouraged me to wait until my son was 18 - 24 months old.

[singular_me]

I just talked of this to a friend this morning and she replied that they do this because many are allergic to pollen ?!?!?!?

makes no sense at all. those allergic to it should NOT buy honey in the first place, as simple as that. Well just another deception among many.

and I suspect that pollen allergy is too misleading/deceptive.

[Shami-Amourae]

I've been using this and it tastes a lot better than filtered honey. It tastes creamy.

http://www.amazon.com/YS-Organic-CERTIFIED-Unprocessed-Unpasteurized/dp/B00014JNI0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347587582&sr=8-1&keywords=raw+honey

YS Organic Bee Farms CERTIFIED ORGANIC RAW HONEY 100% CERTIFIED ORGANIC HONEY Raw, Unprocessed, Unpasteurized

I use that stuff myself. That brand is imported from South America. I think that's a good thing. I try to get as many products from south of the equator as possible. Why? Since there's a LOT less nuclear radiation and nuclear reactors down there.

[Shami-Amourae]

I just talked of this to a friend this morning and she replied that they do this because many are allergic to pollen ?!?!?!?

makes no sense at all. those allergic to it should NOT buy honey in the first place, as simple as that. Well just another deception among many.

and I suspect that pollen allergy is too misleading/deceptive.

Raw honey has a crap load of the environmental allergens in the local area its from. It delivers it to you in a safe dose, and trains your body to get used to it. So you can literally cure many of your environmental allergens by taking it regularly. It also is something you want handy for when you have an allergic reaction. Whenever I have an allergic reaction (which are must rarer now), I take raw honey, and it goes right away.

This EVEN treats pollen allergies. How do I know? First hand experience.

[big country]

Wow, that article is pretty crappy.

Just because honey is filtered doesn't mean it isn't honey -- that's a ridiculous argument. MOST honey sold is ultra filtered because NOT filtering it causes it to crystallize much faster. Not that crystallized honey is bad (its not) but many consumers don't want to bother with crystallizing honey (and is something you need to explain and market when you want to sell your own honey at a farmers market...etc). The pollen particles in the honey give the crystals something to "grab on to" and will make it crystallize in a month instead of a year.
This is how they make "creamed" honey by the way, you stick some "starter" (already crystallized honey) in there and it will cause it to crystallize faster...once the process starts whip it and that is how you get creamed honey

There is cheap Chinese honey that has been adulterated, no doubt about it, but a "lack of pollen" doesn't mean it isn't 100% honey and has been cut with corn syrup or beet sugar (Chinese honey).

Now for infants. From my understanding, that warning is on there because honey can be a carrier for infant botulism. It has nothing to do with allergies or the pollen.

Infants are susceptible to infant botulism in the first year of life, with more than 90% of cases occurring in infants younger than six months.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism#cite_note-SSAIBchap-4) Infant botulism results from the ingestion of the C. botulinum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_botulinum) spores, and subsequent colonization of the small intestine.....Honey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey) is the only known dietary reservoir of C. botulinum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_botulinum) spores linked to infant botulism. For this reason honey should not be fed to infants less than one year of age.[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism#cite_note-Caya2004-5)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism


Also, some people swear that local pollen helps their allergies, some say it does nothing for them. You can find good arguments on either side of the fence. In funded studies, they haven't been able to prove that it helps -- but in Natural medicine circles and first hand testimonies people say it does. Personally, its a boon for marketing your own raw/unprocessed (ie cheaper and easier for the bee keeper!) honey at higher prices :D It hasn't helped my allergies....and my honey is as local as it gets...the Bees are literally 500 feet from my house. I eat it nearly every day as well.


Source: I keep bees, and I have been reading bee catalogs, magazines (Bee Culture and American Bee Journal) and the web forums (www.beesource.com (http://www.beesource.com))

[StreetsOfGold]

Honey is the ONLY FOOD in the Bible God commands to be eaten

Proverbs 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

Why is this? Next verse

Proverbs 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

So, SoG, does that mean that adulteration of honey would be a biblical offense in your eyes?

[joboo]

LOL, honey adulterated by the hands of the devil.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

I'm just trying to get streets of gold to take a side on something. I'm sure he's against honey adulteration as it sounds like it goes against his book.

[joboo]

Jus messin. I would imagine back in those days anything that tasted good, and didn't spoil in the heat was considered some kind of magic substance.

[StreetsOfGold]

So, SoG, does that mean that adulteration of honey would be a biblical offense in your eyes?

We have a Bible example of how to eat it. Notice the result of eating it and no, it is not been adulterated

1 Samuel 14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.