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    Thread: Studies Show Fake Honey Is Everywhere:Here’s How To Know The Difference:

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      The next time you find yourself in the honey aisle of your grocery store, debating between a pricy premium, artisanal honey and the store-brand nectar contained in a plastic bear, you might want to think twice before choosing based on price.

      That’s because a searing investigation of the honey market by Food Safety News found that 76% of all honey bought at grocery stores were treated with a process called “ultra-filtration,” which removes not only impurities like wax, but also all traces of pollen. And of the types of brands at grocery stores, the ones that were far-and-away the most likely to be ultra-filtered were generic brands.

      There are issues with ultra-filtration in general. Many believe that pollen, and other so-called “impurities,” are actually beneficial to human health, and make honey a better choice than rival sweeteners like sugar. And there doesn’t seem to be any serious benefit to the process; it’s expensive and doesn’t significantly improve shelf-life, even though some manufacturers claim it does.

      But according to FSN, the biggest reason to avoid ultra-filtered honey is that pollen is the only sure-fire way to trace the source of honey to a geographic location. As a result ultra-filtered honey is often used to mask the shady origins of certain kinds of honey, especially Chinese honey, which is subject to heavy import tariffs on account of its frequent contamination by heavy metals and illegal antibiotics. Chinese honeymakers ultra-filter their honey, and then ship it through byzantine paths, to sneak their sham product onto American grocery shelves without being hit with a tariff.

      Food Safety News honey samples were sent to premier melissopalynologist and professor at Texas A&M University, Vaughn Bryant. What he found was that roughly three fourths of the honey contained no pollen, making it unidentifiable and unsafe. Of that average, he found that:

      100 percent of Winnie the Pooh sold in Walmart stores had all pollen removed.
      100 percent of honey from individual packets from KFC and McDonald’s had all pollen removed.
      77 percent of honey from big box stores like Costco, Sam’s Club, and Target had no traced of pollen.
      100 percent of honey from drugstores like Walgreen’s and CVS Pharmacy had all the pollen filtered out.
      He did find out, however, that honey purchased from co-ops, farmers markets and stores like Trader Joes contained the full amount of original pollen.

      Many have called for the FDA to do more to prevent adulterated and smuggled honey from landing on grocery shelves, but the group has so far shrugged off the burden.

      The EU, for its part, just changed labeling regulations to require that honey containers list “pollen” as an ingredient, when it is one, despite the objections of some honey farmers, who call pollen intrinsic to their produce.
      One ounce of raw honey contains approximately 20 vitamins, 18 amino acids, 16 minerals, and a ton of antioxidants and phytonutrients. Raw honey is an antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal substance. It is also highly nutritious. It contains significant amounts of B2, B3, B5, B6, C, magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium chlorine, sulphur, and phosphate.

      In the meantime, though, worried consumers do have a good option: buying honey from farmers’ markets and natural food stores. The FSN investigation found that few, if any, of the honeys sold there had been subject to ultra-filtration
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      I buy mine from the roadside illegal Mexican who sells fruta and coca lol...oranges and watermelons and HONEY! Usually get a huge jar for about $11. Since its pure raw honey you have to heat it up a lot because it hardens "like it should" not like runny store bought brands!

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      I bought a jar from the Farmers market and it was $16 but the BEST damn honey I ever had,> I have even put it o9n skin irritations, cuts, etc. the downside to it of course that it is sticky but it has cleared things up so I will deal with it
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      Thats a good idea to go to the farmers market for that. Sucks that they do that to honey. Im sure the honey I have is the crappy kind, but it tastes like honey I guess. I was thinking about putting some bee hives out here to pollinate the orchards, but decided I didnt want to hassle with it. Maybe some day I will do it when I am old and need something to do.lol

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      Thats a good idea to go to the farmers market for that. Sucks that they do that to honey. Im sure the honey I have is the crappy kind, but it tastes like honey I guess. I was thinking about putting some bee hives out here to pollinate the orchards, but decided I didnt want to hassle with it. Maybe some day I will do it when I am old and need something to do.lol
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      You know 6, youre right. Bees are endangered species. Maybe I should seriously look into it. I know you can buy beehive kits for not much money, but I dont know how much time you have to put into it. Then I could have bees to pollinate and have honey by the gallons. does anyone know anything about bees?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Dzone View Post
      Thats a good idea to go to the farmers market for that. Sucks that they do that to honey. Im sure the honey I have is the crappy kind, but it tastes like honey I guess. I was thinking about putting some bee hives out here to pollinate the orchards, but decided I didnt want to hassle with it. Maybe some day I will do it when I am old and need something to do.lol
      I think there may be a grant to have bee hives. I keep trying to talk Rake into it but he is so anti Gov supplement he wont go for it.

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