Honey is one of the most adulterated foods that are available for sale. Most people wouldnt know sugar water with colouring from real honey. Many come from numerous countries and are blended together to look right. If you don't know the origin of the food source how do you know what is in it? Beehives from Chernobyl maybe😁I keep seeing mentions of how supermarket honey isn’t proper honey. How come they’re still allowed to call it honey? What’s it made of then? Is it “funny honey”?
Thank you! My bottle of squeezey honey in the cupboard says it’s blended from EU countries (I think).Honey is one of the most adulterated foods that are available for sale. Most people wouldnt know sugar water with colouring from real honey. Many come from numerous countries and are blended together to look right. If you don't know the origin of the food source how do you know what is in it? Beehives from Chernobyl maybe😁
Not all supermarket honeys are bad but I can't buy a jar for the price some of them sell honey for let alone put real honey in it! They may super seive or heat honey to keep it runny, they blend it to keep the texture and colour.
Honey, imho should be as nature intended, spun out of the frame and put in a jar. Each harvest will be different and could be compared like a good wine. Some years are exceptional. Honey should contain pollen and be allowed to age naturally
There really is no comparison
To keep honey squeezy it usually needs heating to over 60⁰ or super sieving to remove any pollen that might cause it to crystalise. Both can ruin the taste and smell. It depends if you want a sweet liquid to add sugar to something or if you want a quality product. Very few unheated honeys remain runny for long. It is natural for most honeys to set.Thank you! My bottle of squeezey honey in the cupboard says it’s blended from EU countries (I think).
I’ve borrowed this from another beekeeper.I keep seeing mentions of how supermarket honey isn’t proper honey.
Often it says a blend of EU and non EU honey - so pretty much any old carp. It's difficult to analyse honey to confirm that it has been adulterated and the supermarkets are not bothered. There was so much adulterated honey coming out of China, it can often be routed through another country to disguise it's origin.Thank you! My bottle of squeezey honey in the cupboard says it’s blended from EU countries (I think).
And don't get me started on vegan honey!
dandilion honey is quite good, I am a vegan and to state the 'rules' vegan do not eat anything that harms a creature or takes its food, a Bee Honey is excess, from the supers, I do eat it as am not taking any Bees food away from themOh go on, do tell. How do you make a vegan into honey?
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Sounds like Jain veganism.dandilion honey is quite good, I am a vegan and to state the 'rules' vegan do not eat anything that harms a creature or takes its food, a Bee Honey is excess, from the supers, I do eat it as am not taking any Bees food away from them
in natural beekeepping Bees die due to lack of care, I'm lucky have a colony who keep out of the way when I'm inspecting, had to look up Jain they don't eat roots! in case micro insects are harmed,Sounds like Jain veganism.
What if the keeper accidentally squashed some bees during the management of the hive? - which is what usually happens.
Have you seen what they sell as ham ?I keep seeing mentions of how supermarket honey isn’t proper honey. How come they’re still allowed to call it honey? What’s it made of then? Is it “funny honey”?
Big supermarkets indoctrinated us to believe in cheap food and not to worry about the source of it. We followed the mantra but now struggle to reconcile the results of that choice on the environment and on our health.Supermarkets ... ARE the cost of living crisis
I live in a village on the edge of Trowvegas.Big supermarkets indoctrinated us to believe in cheap food and not to worry about the source of it. We followed the mantra but now struggle to reconcile the results of that choice on the environment and on our health.
Cheap food is in truth, very expensive, but the taxpayer must pay the bill for the consequences of supermarket profit: the NHS reckons it costs £6.5bn annually to deal with obesity, £10bn annually on diabetes, and so on.
Eat less, buy better, buy local, pay more.
I think the issue pre dates the supermarkets push, but agree that they are still culpable. post WW2, agriculture was pushed by successive governments to produce as much produce as possible by any means possible. It took decades to see the damage this caused, but we now have a population that were largely weaned on cheap poor quality produced and most are finding it difficult either though habitual or financially situations to change. Responsible food production is not cheapBig supermarkets indoctrinated us to believe in cheap food and not to worry about the source of it. We followed the mantra but now struggle to reconcile the results of that choice on the environment and on our health.
Cheap food is in truth, very expensive, but the taxpayer must pay the bill for the consequences of supermarket profit: the NHS reckons it costs £6.5bn annually to deal with obesity, £10bn annually on diabetes, and so on.
Eat less, buy better, buy local, pay more.
My daughter is senior communications manager for Compassion in World Farming and has spent the last decade trying to get live exports banned because it’s cheaper to cart animals across Europe to slaughter than do it in the UK and send them frozen.I think the issue pre dates the supermarkets push, but agree that they are still culpable. post WW2, agriculture was pushed by successive governments to produce as much produce as possible by any means possible. It took decades to see the damage this caused, but we now have a population that were largely weaned on cheap poor quality produced and most are finding it difficult either though habitual or financially situations to change. Responsible food production is not cheap
There also seams to a NIMBY attitude to food production developing where we expect ethical production in the UK, then import cheaper produce from abroad where the welfare and environmental standards are far lower than we would accept at home.
I entirely agree with Eric' mantra - Eat less, buy better, buy local, pay more - although sometimes I slip
Let’s hope this lot don’t backtrack.They finally got the UK government to ban it earlier this year.
I think caged hens is next on the agenda!
I agree, eat less of better quality!
From her negotiations with them she seems hopeful.Let’s hope this lot don’t backtrack.
Much of the blame for obesity must be laid at the door of Coca Cola and the like. The drink and the problem hit the US a generation or two before it hit the UK. It's conditioned children to like their drinks sweet. American beer and wine and Starbucks coffee are all much sweeter than their European equivalents, and to me are unpalatable. But younger folk think the sweetness is attractive and normal.I live in a village on the edge of Trowvegas.
Pretty much every other person in town is morbidly obese, the rest are overweight.
I'm watching people in their thirties waddling, holding hands with their obese children.
Mobility scooter capital of the UK.
It' a time bomb ticking right under our noses.
Like it or not values and perceptions have changed. I look back to my post ww2 childhood when no one thought twice about eating misshapen, scabby vegetables once peeled and cooked. Sharing fruit with fauna wasn't uncommon as trees weren't routinely sprayed (what's worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm). Nowadays there's uproar and folk dash off to the papers who gleefully print tales of woe so Sharon or Errol gets five minutes of fame and a shopping voucher by way of apology. Don't get me started about condensation in flats with doors and windows shut and washing drying on radiators.I think the issue pre dates the supermarkets push, but agree that they are still culpable. post WW2, agriculture was pushed by successive governments to produce as much produce as possible by any means possible. It took decades to see the damage this caused, but we now have a population that were largely weaned on cheap poor quality produced and most are finding it difficult either though habitual or financially situations to change. Responsible food production is not cheap
I do admit to enjoying an ice cold coke but look back fondly to teenage years consuming Blue triangle Bass.Much of the blame for obesity must be laid at the door of Coca Cola and the like. The drink and the problem hit the US a generation or two before it hit the UK. It's conditioned children to like their drinks sweet. American beer and wine and Starbucks coffee are all much sweeter than their European equivalents, and to me are unpalatable. But younger folk think the sweetness is attractive and normal.
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