When honey isn't honey...

[The Riviera Kid]

Interesting news from America again...

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/


All the more reason for people to buy their honey from their local beekeeper and not from a supermarket

 

[Nose Ma]

But no GM problems with it!

 

[The Riviera Kid]

But no GM problems with it!

But isn't honey without all the natural bits basically just golden syrup???

 

[Nose Ma]

This is, of course the country that calls Budweiser "beer".

I have no idea what I'd call it, but it's not honey!


I think golden syrup has a different sugar mix to honey.

 

[The Cumbrian]

But isn't honey without all the natural bits basically just golden syrup???

Well if Honey is partially inverted cane or beet sugar then you are probably right.

Golden Syrup according to Lyle's is....

For those of you who are scientifically minded… the sucrose molecule splits in half to give glucose and fructose sugars. This inverted syrup is blended back with the original syrup to give a partially inverted syrup. The secret of Lyle's Golden Syrup is the final blend of sucrose, glucose and fructose, which allows the syrup to be so thick and velvety without crystallizing.

 

[The Riviera Kid]

This inverted syrup is blended back with the original syrup to give a partially inverted syrup. The secret of Lyle's Golden Syrup is the final blend of sucrose, glucose and fructose, which allows the syrup to be so thick and velvety without crystallizing.

And if memory serves me correctly isn't the enzyme used to invert sugar invertase? Which also happens to be the enzyme bees use to convert nectar in to honey