Honey has a dirty little secret: Your honey has been spiked and can be tainted with lead and antibiotics . Spiking honey is a common practice in the US. It means that corn syrup or other sweeteners have been added to honey to make it more affordable. In fact more than 75% of all honey sold in America isn’t exactly what the bees produce.
According to testing done for Food Safety News, honey sold in most conventional grocery stores contained no pollen. Especially when it comes to stores like Walgreens, Rite Aid, and CVS, the failure rate was as high as 100%!
Whereas all honey bought at farmers’ markets and natural grocers like Trader Joe’s contained their full pollen content. So, where you buy your honey makes a huge difference.
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Food Safety News has put a list of honey brands that contain no pollen
Most Honey Sold in USA Comes from China
Ultra-filtration is a process that has two purposes: it gives honey a longer shelf-life and also hides the country of origin. Why? Because most likely your honey comes from China that has been mixed with high-fructose corn syrup and sweeteners, and tainted with pesticides, lead and antibiotics.
Buy Raw Organic Honey from Your Local Farmers
Raw pure honey possesses a strong natural antibiotic property due to special enzymes that the bees produce. In fact, it’s one of the best natural antibiotics knows to science.
This is the honey I’ve been buying and is truly the best raw unfiltered honey from Texas. (find it here)
Where is yours study data? These are significant claims that need to be backed up with publically available data.
The link is in the article!
This is easily researchable and is quite a buzz in the health news areas to open awareness up and expose it so people can stop being duped already…personally have seen this info float by for many years. You can even have your own items analyzed if you don’t believe it or are uncertain in anyway so you know for sure.
Thanks
I buy local honey from a south bossier farmer in Louisiana.
Food companies and other producers who add sweeteners to honey have to alert consumers by labeling their products as a “blend,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday.
Only manufactures that do not add sugar, corn syrup or other sweeteners should label their products as pure “honey,” the FDA said in draft guidelines posted online.
Are you referring to “filtered” honey, that might not show traces of pollen? Who did your testing? Are the actual results published and accessible?
I buy, Aunt Sue’s Raw strained,unfiltered wildflower Honey, says product of the USA, no ingredients :pure Honey, is that what i’m Getting?
Yes you are!
This is good to know what is being or not put in our Honey I love honey in my hot tea or even with my chicken nuggets. Thank you for the info
are you telling people that honey has a shelf life?
No. raw honey has no shelf life but commercially processed crap does.
Funny thing. Bees is dying.
Always use your LOCAL honey to help w/allergies.?
Especially during the high pollen season.