More than 75 percent of all 'honey' sold in grocery stores contains no honey at all
Be(e) sure to check out the list of fake honey, which includes Busy Bee Organic Honey, Kroger Pure Clover Honey, and Sue Bee Clover Honey among a long list of others.
I sell organic, unfiltered honey at my coffeehouse (and we use it at the shop, too) in sterile, recycled rum and vodka bottles, many with the alcohol labels still attached. There is no label because it isn't a brand, it's just Steve's honey. It is procured by my friend Steve, who also sells organic baby greens, a staple in my life. I love that man! Anyhow, Steve mentioned that he was getting nowhere in is attempt to get his honey certified organic. It comes form an area with no commercial farming for at least 100 square miles, most likely more. He said that all honey labeled organic in the US is contaminated with GMO crops and pollutants from air and water. It's the dirty little secret of the organic honey industry in the US. That should be a boon to Steve's Nicaraguan honey, fetchng a nice price on the open market, but the organic certification agencies will not touch honey right now because of the blowback to the producers. The agencies refuse to test is honey. That's pretty telling.
I sell Steve's honey for half of what it costs in the US for FAKE honey!
From Natural News (a very interesting and informative website that I check out almost daily):
(NaturalNews) 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/...
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.
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 prior to hitting store shelves.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) holds the position that any so-called honey products that have been ultra-filtered are not actually honey. But the agency refuses to do anything to stop this influx of illegitimate "honey" from flooding the North American market. It also continues to stonewall all petitions to establish a national regulatory standard for verifying the integrity of honey.
Ultra-filtering eliminates and destroys all medicinal properties of honey
Assuming that there is any real honey at all in the phony honey products tested by FSN, the removal of pollen and other delicate materials via ultra-filtering renders them medicinally dead. Raw honey is a health-promoting food that can help alleviate stomach problems, anemia, allergies, and other health conditions. Ultra-filtered honey is nothing more than a health-destroying processed sugar in the same vein as white table sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
The good news is that all of the honey products FSN tested from farmers markets, food cooperatives, and "natural" stores like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, were found to contain pollen and a full array of antioxidants and other nutrients. Local beekeepers are another great source of obtaining raw, unprocessed, real honey.
Be sure to read the entire FSN report at:
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/...
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/034102_honey_consumer_alert.html#ixzz1dF3l3CTp
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