This site cropped up on FB..... very black CC

[Poly Hive]

Www.beeblood.co.uk

Does anyone know anything about them ?

PH

 

[Murox]

At first glance it looks to be a UK advertisement. Scratching the surface a little reveals that it appears to be an international US based link exchange/scheme/website using Russian written programming/software linked very firmly into “F” book – curios. No doubt there is more to it than that - maybe give the phone number a ring.

 

[Angry_Mob]

I know I wouldn't purchase anything from them, there was another website posted here yesterday selling equipment as well that looked dodgy.

Biggest give away it the lack of contact information, no landline number or postal address. Who do you contact when your order doesn't show up?

About page claims they have 650-700 spread across Germany, France and the Netherlands.

 

[pargyle]

Www.beeblood.co.uk

Does anyone know anything about them ?

PH

No - not come across them. Just had a look at their pages and it raises a few questions:

1. It's clearly a company operating outside of the UK and targetted at UK sales .. but, their packaging does not meet the UK honey labelling regulations.

2. I have a concern that importing honey in even small quantities from largely unknown sources is potentially hazardous from a bee health viewpoint. They have been or still are offering wholesale quantities and these could find their way into unsuspecting UK retailers unaware of the Honey regs.

3. Their website has no real means of contact - a mobile number and an email address. My understanding is that UK company websites are legally obliged to provide a physical address or a means of directly obtaining such contact. It begs the question the legitimacy of a website clearly directed at the UK market but not meeting UK rules.

Personally, I would hope that no person in their right mind would consider doing business with them.. either individually or commercially - looks like the sort of invitations I get by email, quite frequently, asking me to invest in Nigerian businesses with XYZ product to sell in the UK and poised to make me a millionaire in a matter of weeks ... all I have to do is provide my name, address, phone number, bank details and a small downpayment of $100 to set up the deal ....

Yeh ... course you will. If it looks too good to be true - it probably is !

Edit ... Looks like we are all thinking the same thing !

 

[Poly Hive]

I totally agree I just wanted my suspicions backed up.

The advert I am seeing is for a place or "business" using the term loosely in Edinburgh. One of the combs in the advert is black... shudder.

PH

 

[Poly Hive]

A lovely advert.

PH

 

[Erichalfbee]

Sounds lovely
Its Black and crunchy , you can fell the taste of propolis , pollen and bee bread, its a comb that was inside the hive for more then 1 years, we produce a very low quantity, so when its available i recommend you to try it,

 

[Ian123]

In fairness there’s a demand for the black stuff in some countries/communities

 

[Fusion_power]

I'm in an area that can produce very dark honey, especially when using A.M.m. stock. Years ago, I had a ready market to older people who wanted the darkest honey because it supposedly had health benefits. One woman purchased a dozen quarts a year so long as the honey met her standard. A.M.m. honey often had significant amounts of pollen stored in the comb.

I do not sell brood comb in a jar of comb honey. The best comb honey is from foundation starter strips with the bees building the comb and filling it with fresh honey. I get quite a bit of drone comb, but it is in just as much demand as worker size comb honey. I have a predilection for comb honey in fresh wax on my personal table.

 

[Poly Hive]

It turned out that one of the people involved was asking for bee bread from this season. when they were told that that was impossible due to the bees being in midwinter they left the group pdq.

Another in private convo told me that his community valued "bee bread" as it was his words... "partly fermented and full of propolis"

Hmmmm.... news to me.

PH

 

[charlievictorbravo]

The labelling of their Apis Forte is very questionable. It's clearly labelled 'Honey" but the small print says "Apis Forte its an unique bee product, its 100% our own recipe. Its a perfect mix of honey with pollen, propolis and royal jelly", so it's clearly not honey as defined by the UK's Honey Regulations.

The honey may be perfectly good but it's labelling, as far as I can see, is awful!

CVB

 

[Fusion_power]

"partly fermented and full of propolis"

I've read that pollen as stored in cells ferments over time which makes the protein more easily bio-available. I don't have a reference and it certainly is worth verifying.

 

[Beefriendly]

I thought it was the opposite and that the protein value dropped by around 50% for overwintered pollen. Winston , Bee Biology (I think).

 

[SDM]

I thought it was the opposite and that the protein value dropped by around 50% for overwintered pollen. Winston , Bee Biology (I think).

Yeah, but protein quantity and availability are not the same

 

[masterBK]

Have a read of this

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285803/

Hive-stored pollen of honey bees: many lines of evidence are consistent with pollen preservation, not nutrient conversion
Kirk E Anderson, Mark J Carroll,Tim Sheehan, Brendon M Mott, Patrick Maes,and Vanessa Corby-Harris