Is Honey really so bad for us?

[Fraise]

On BBC Breakfast at 7.20 this morning there was an item about obesity and sugars. They said honey is among the worst type of sugars to eat.
I have always believed that it is better to consume natural products like honey rather than factory produced alternatives like refined sugar. Am I wrong?

 

[taurus]

Listening to the radio is bad for you - you end up worrying yourself to death.

Honey, like everything else in life, won't do you any harm unless you overdo it.

 

[Finman]

On BBC Breakfast at 7.20 this morning there was an item about obesity and sugars. They said honey is among the worst type of sugars to eat.
I have always believed that it is better to consume natural products like honey rather than factory produced alternatives like refined sugar. Am I wrong?

Sugar is a basic of life. When a plant catches energy from sun light, plant stores the energy as a form of sugar. Then Sugar is neutralized as starch or as fat.

When you eate corn, potato, sacharose, fructose or other type of sugars, they are basicly same.
A Finnish inhabitants consume 30 kg sugar in a year and 0.6 kg honey.
I do not know how much we eate starch per person in a year.

Animals digestion splits starch to glucose. It splits/inverts sacharose to glucose and fructose.

If you try to make you healthy by selecting sugar types, you must have a good imagination. You do not even know what are you eating daily.

 

[Finman]

Listening to the radio is bad for you - you end up worrying yourself to death.

Honey, like everything else in life, won't do you any harm unless you overdo it.

I bet that when you make mead from your all rubbish honey, that will make you sick. Better to distill it first.

 

[taurus]

I bet that when you make mead from your all rubbish honey, that will make you sick. Better to distill it first.

Ooh - I've been the target of random Scandinavian abuse - does that mean I can call myself a proper beekeeper now?

 

[Karol]

Fructose is more readily converted into fat by the liver. So refined sugar is healthier than eating fresh fruit. The sarcasm is lost in translation. I wouldn't worry about it. Everything in balance - more exercise will allow you to eat more honey. Simples!

 

[enrico]

Ooh - I've been the target of random Scandinavian abuse - does that mean I can call myself a proper beekeeper now?

You are indeed one of the chosen few

 

[Brigsy]

Sugar is the new chosen enemy. Theory being that sugar spikes insulin increasing fat storage.

That's true, but the obese people that scoff large amounts of sugar aren't getting fat because they are having a teaspoon of honey in their peppermint tea.

 

[Finman]

Sugar is the new chosen enemy. Theory being that sugar spikes insulin increasing fat storage.

That's true, but the obese people that scoff large amounts of sugar aren't getting fat because they are having a teaspoon of honey in their peppermint tea.

Better to stop tea drinking.

 

[Finman]

Ooh - I've been the target of random Scandinavian abuse - does that mean I can call myself a proper beekeeper now?

2-hive owners are allways proper, more or less. 6 and 5-hive owners are.., how to say ... over qualified
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[Zante]

I wouldn't give too much weight to what the BBC says.
It's lost any credibility for quite a while now.

 

[Webby]

I bet that when you make mead from your all rubbish honey, that will make you sick. Better to distill it first.

But distilling is illegal Finnman!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I wouldn't give too much weight to what the BBC says.
It's lost any credibility for quite a while now.

Nothing but a propaganda machine for the tory elite

I've listened to the full unabridged version - apparently it's all an evil plot to enslave the British people - it's a tripartrite attach masterminded by all the refugees, immigrants and Muslims running the European parliament headed by Jeremy Corbyn

 

[Cussword]

 

[Zante]

Nothing but a propaganda machine for the tory elite

I've listened to the full unabridged version - apparently it's all an evil plot to enslave the British people - it's a tripartrite attach masterminded by all the refugees, immigrants and Muslims running the European parliament headed by Jeremy Corbyn

I see.. so that's why we have all that non-EU honey in the supermarkets!

 

[madasafish]

The problem is: the BBC report was probably talking about commercial honey.

You know the stuff: no pollen (filtered out), no flavour (processed out), no enzymes (cooked out).


Once people taste real honey with flavour and pollen, and scent, they tend to come back for more..

 

[Finman]

The problem is: the BBC report was probably talking about commercial honey.

You know the stuff: no pollen (filtered out), no flavour (processed out), no enzymes (cooked out).
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Ooooh dear ....
Commercial honey... Instead of raw honey...

.pollen in honey had no meaning to human healthy. Even London street dust is healthier.

Taking off pollen only vanish the traces, from where the honey comes. Germans buy pure raspberry honey from Finland, but no rape pollen is allowed.

If sugar has no pollen or it is cooked, is it poisonous?

Flavour... Put some spices in it

 

[Zante]

Ooooh dear ....
Commercial honey... Instead of raw honey...

.pollen in honey had no meaning to human healthy. Even London street dust is healthier.

Taking off pollen only vanish the traces, from where the honey comes. Germans buy pure raspberry honey from Finland, but no rape pollen is allowed.

If sugar has no pollen or it is cooked, is it poisonous?

Flavour... Put some spices in it

Actually it has been proven that pollen does make a difference.
During a test several batches of mead were made with different quantities of pollen in them, and it turns out that mead made with a certain quantity of pollen in it was found to be better tasting and with a bit more depth.
It was also seen that going over a certain quantity of pollen, though, the quality of the mead was found to be worse.

I'll have to dig around to find the article.

 

[Zante]

Found it
http://www.academicwino.com/2011/10/enhancing-sweet-nectar-effect-of-pollen.html/

I have also noticed it myself in my limited experience. The mead I've made with commercial honey was ok, but nothing special, while the mead made with raw unfiltered honey was a lot better.

 

[Finman]

Actually it has been proven that pollen does make a difference.

I'll have to dig around to find the article.

Do not bother. Most people even do not touch honey, and they are alive.
Pollen granules have no meaning in human nutrition.

It is unefficient food hunting if a human starts to lick pollen from flowers. It is easier to get pollen directly from flowers than from honey.

Honey has very few pollen granules because bee stomach has a sieve organ which takes granules off.

And if a human needs protein from beehive, he eates the brood from nest
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