Rio off britain - bbc 1

[pargyle]

Angela Rippon did us all a few favours on there this morning - long piece on honey with the Chairman of the BFA explaining blended honeys and what you get in flavour from local honey .. sadly she price pointed a 'medium range' jar of honey at £2-£4 but .. c'est la vie - can't have everything !

It will be on I-player shortly if you missed it.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Angela Rippon did us all a few favours on there this morning - long piece on honey with the Chairman of the BFA explaining blended honeys and what you get in flavour from local honey .. sadly she price pointed a 'medium range' jar of honey at £2-£4 but .. c'est la vie - can't have everything !

It will be on I-player shortly if you missed it.

I thought this was about the Olympics
Thanks for the info. Will watch it later

 

[deanrpwaacs]

Rip off ? Typo i presume .

 

[Robbo8916]

Watching it now. Currently slagging off smoothies...

 

[Robbo8916]

Main opening shots all of bumblebees, and a lovely shot of a wasp eating honey on the comb alongside bees!

 

[Robbo8916]

There you go..... Did nobody notice that?

 

[pargyle]

There you go..... Did nobody notice that?

Yes ... but does it matter ? The target audience is honey eatesr not nit picking beekeepers ... All in all I think it made a good case for real honey and not the blended blanded stuff ...

 

[misterbee82]

Our local bee club promotes raw honey, because the health benefits are there. Much of what you'll find at supermarkets will be greatly diminished and not have anywhere near the health benefits.

 

[pargyle]

Our local bee club promotes raw honey, because the health benefits are there. Much of what you'll find at supermarkets will be greatly diminished and not have anywhere near the health benefits.

Wellllll .... You have had some problems with the honey being sold over there but hopefully honey is honey wherever it is being sold - even the cheap stuff is better for sweetening than raw sugar.

 

[Vortex]

If you attended Debie Delany's "honey marketing" lecture at the National Honey show last year (it was videod so you can go watch it) there are significant differences between the EU and the US, principally that there is no legal definition of honey in the US so they can legally sell corn syrup as honey (and do) hence the "Organic Honey" or "Raw Honey" brand being adopted by "local" (another term that has no definition in the US) beekeepers.

At least in the EU honey has to be produced by Apis Melifera to be sold as honey (Legal Definition) and is what allowed the Danish Authorities to prosecute the rogue importers.

I'll get around to watching the BBC prog as some point over the weekend..

On a side note .. a lot of what is termed "Raw" honey in the US is what you pour out of the extractor without any form of filtering or settling ..

 

[psafloyd]

Our local bee club promotes raw honey, because the health benefits are there. Much of what you'll find at supermarkets will be greatly diminished and not have anywhere near the health benefits.

Perhaps, masterbee82, but I don't think we have a definition of raw honey over here.

At least your FDA decided that some of the super refined rubbish was not honey as it had no pollen left in it.

Or did I dream that?

When I have a new customer and they say they'll try one jar to start with, I always tell them to enjoy it, but I know they will and they'll be back.

They usually come back within a week.

 

[psafloyd]

Sorry, deleted comment as misread the original.