Rambling on and on and on about farming, food and astronomy. Astronomy? Yep. Farming and astronomy go together like garlic and basil, tomatoes and peppers, ice cream and bacon.

5th January 2012

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Disturbing food stories from 2011. Fake honey.  Testing revealed that virtually all of the mass market honey being sold in grocery stores and other retail outlets does not meet the FDA definition of the term “honey”. In order to meet government requirements, honey must contain the natural pollen grains that are normally found in honey. (Note: Pasteurization has no effect on the pollen content, it merely kills potentially harmful bacteria.) But virtually all of the honey on the shelves at grocery stores and other food outlets contains little or no pollen at all, meaning that technically it is not honey. Why no pollen? Because the public has been trained to believe that real honey is a thick, crystal clear, amber colored liquid, so virtually all of the honey manufacturers put the honey through an ultra-filtration process that removes literally everything from honey, leaving a perfectly clear liquid that is basically little more than sugar syrup. To make things even more disturbing, an significant number of products tested never came from bees at all, made up primarily of corn syrup and a variety of colorings and flavorings. The only honey samples that tested as ‘real’ honey, meeting the FDA specifications for pollen and other criteria, were those being sold by the smaller producers.

Disturbing food stories from 2011. Fake honey. 

Testing revealed that virtually all of the mass market honey being sold in grocery stores and other retail outlets does not meet the FDA definition of the term “honey”. In order to meet government requirements, honey must contain the natural pollen grains that are normally found in honey. (Note: Pasteurization has no effect on the pollen content, it merely kills potentially harmful bacteria.)

But virtually all of the honey on the shelves at grocery stores and other food outlets contains little or no pollen at all, meaning that technically it is not honey. Why no pollen? Because the public has been trained to believe that real honey is a thick, crystal clear, amber colored liquid, so virtually all of the honey manufacturers put the honey through an ultra-filtration process that removes literally everything from honey, leaving a perfectly clear liquid that is basically little more than sugar syrup.

To make things even more disturbing, an significant number of products tested never came from bees at all, made up primarily of corn syrup and a variety of colorings and flavorings.

The only honey samples that tested as ‘real’ honey, meeting the FDA specifications for pollen and other criteria, were those being sold by the smaller producers.

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    words but these.
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    support the fucking bees, bro. BRO. SUPPORT THE BEES. realhoney4evr
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