Honey!

[pietka]

I heard on bbc radio 4 a snippet of a program on the honey and the processing that is now happening to this tasty an nutritious food! Where as honey would be filtered through a corse mesh to take out wax chunks and bee parts! It appears some manufactures are putting it through ultra filtration to remove the pollen! Thus making it not honey! The study took 60 jars from 10 states and found around 3/4 had no pollen!

I'm not an expert but I would imagine this affects nutritional value? And in thier words "this is not what bees produce"

[bulldogeagle]

i have heard it said that the nearer the honey is produced to where you live the better it is, something to do with the bees feeding on plants local to your area.

[the-gnole]

The micro filtering is, I Just read, to slow or stop the crystallization than usually occurs.

http://www.honeytraveler.com/types-of-honey/raw-honey/

Micro-filtering also degrades the healthful properties of honey by removing beneficial pollen residue. Much commercial honey is micro-filtered, often using a diatomaceous earth (DE) process to eliminate even micron-sized particles. Why go to these lengths when a relatively coarse strain would result in a clear, visually beautiful product and not remove healthful pollen? The reason is to slow down the naturally occurring crystallization of honey. Tiny particles act as ‘seeds’ for the crystallization process, by removing them with micro-filtering, crystallization is delayed.

[Bladerunner]

i have heard it said that the nearer the honey is produced to where you live the better it is, something to do with the bees feeding on plants local to your area.

What if you live in Chernobyl?

[pseudonym]

i have heard it said that the nearer the honey is produced to where you live the better it is, something to do with the bees feeding on plants local to your area.

What if you live in Chernobyl?

Glow in the dark honey

[preppingsu]

i have heard it said that the nearer the honey is produced to where you live the better it is, something to do with the bees feeding on plants local to your area.

What if you live in Chernobyl?

Glow in the dark honey

[Bladerunner]

Can someone explain to me the +10 or other number that appears after Manuka Honey.

I have seen it a few times with different numbers but I have no idea what it means,

Be lucky (and sweet)

[Bladerunner]

Here is a link that is quite interesting.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... _DNL_art_1

Apparently the rubbish honey that the EU has banned is now finding its way into the US. It also mentions the fact that the US & UK lost a third of their bees last year.

The honey bee pollinates 130 different crops in the America alone.

If you haven't started yet, get stockpiling that food.

[bulldogeagle]

i have heard it said that the nearer the honey is produced to where you live the better it is, something to do with the bees feeding on plants local to your area.

What if you live in Chernobyl?

dont think there are any bees in Chernobyl, i think i saw a tv programme where there was 1 old lady who lived there-that was the total population!