The best approach to eating honey to help combat allergies is to eat very local honey that is harvested during the time that you are reacting to pollen in your local area. There are a number of fungicides, antibiotics, vitamins and feeding stimulates etc. Becky Long — I think the president of the American Honey Producers Association would say that it ISN’T honey. “Eat real food people! They can be isolated in very large fields, to have access to primarily one type of plant over another, but cannot be trained to exclusively obtain pollen from clover, or alfalfa or buckwheat. Find out more at Food Cooperative Initiative online. Very shameful. Thanks so much for sharing this! support local beekeepers only!! Peace! Oh, I’d known about the fake “honey” they serve in single-serving packets at restaurants and cafeterias. It’s not maple. It is illegal for me to sell unfiltered honey!!! Thanks for all the great info you post. But the key here isn’t local vs. non-local, but single producer farm vs. internationally sourced distributor. Brokers were told to hire specific labs that specialized in filtering the honey to remove markers (such as pollen or soil) that could be used to trace shipments back to their true origin, according to court documents that outline the U.S. government’s case. etc. That is sometimes true. If the honey is pasteurized it is not honey any more. In 2001, Chinese beekeepers experienced an epidemic of the foulbrood disease that ransacked their hives. If there were more food co-ops in places far from producers, more people would have access and the great education in healthy choices a co-op can provide. We can go to his farm, see his hives, and watch him do nothing more than strain and bottle his liquid gold. Archived *New* Kirkland Raw Unfiltered Honey $8.99 available at Costco in Frisco, TX. Doesn’t matter if it is a tree, grass, weed, or prize winning rose bush. It’s imported from Mexico, so hopefully it still has pollen in it. It advertises KFactor 75% Pollen Count, which measures the amount of Manuka pollen in each jar; however, I did not find a UMF rating. I guess I should have known… Thank goodness i have a farmer’s market close by! Dang! When heat is used to extract the honey, it loses it’s awesome benefits. Real, unheated honey actually has real flavor! This makes it over 1000 times more acid than neutral water. I purchase REALLY RAW HONEY … which is fabulous! No, thanks- that kind of local is not what I want. The long and the short of it is the real stuff? You won’t get any improvement in this by voting for the cause of the problem. The price goes down easy: $8.99. I was never a honey eater until a few years ago when I discovered that local, raw honey may be good for allergies because of its pollen content. Galite bet kuriuo metu keisti savo pasirinkimus puslapyje „Jūsų privatumo valdymo funkcijos“. Yes KristenM I heard that too, and this spring I bought honey from a local friend who keeps bees as a hobby. It’s MADE FROM honey. If you want to order real honey online, try Glacier County Honey Company (http://www.glaciercountyhoney.com/). This doesn’t hold true for Illinois at the very least. Recently, the FDA even confiscated $32,000 worth of imported Chinese honey that was contaminated with this drug. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I didn’t give it much thought until I read this post because I continued to see well-known Australian brands on our supermarket shelves. Wessels Family Honey It all just seems to be a ploy to sell your friend’s honey, which we have no guarantee other than your word (which as we can see from your utter lack of sources above) counts for nothing. I’m a beekeeper so this is a topic near & dear to my heart. Is there anything in our regular supermarket that isn’t pumped full of subsidized GMO corn byproducts? This and other stories about fake honey are being spread and are spreading and harming their brand image. Honey may look and taste different from one bottle to the next depending on the floral source. Almost all of the beeswax you can buy, even if it says “pure beeswax” is contaminated with the various ‘cides. None of the honey from Costco said it was from China. People need to realize that just because it isn’t labeled organic doesn’t mean it’s bad for you. The FDA only cares about addressing “problems” that compete with pharma’s patented drugs. It’s likely a handful of major manufacturers because these national convenience store chains don’t have the time or volume to mess around with dozens of sources. Our honey is never warmed or filtered in anyway. Problem is they can actually fine me thousands if they want to… What a broken system. I would not buy it there and it is not hysteria. I didn’t read this entire article so I don’t know if this was covered: My honey lady told me that the store bought honey is made from Corn Syrup. Elimination of all pollen can only be achieved by ultra-filtering and this filtration process does nothing but cost money and diminish the quality of the honey,” Jensen said. Yup, raw and local is all that enters my home and my family’s mouths. So to sum up, if your (or your husbands) allergies are reacting to something that is in bloom at the time say ragweed or oak tree pollen, find a local keeper and request a batch of honey fresh from the hives. Went to Costco the other day and they had honey that was being sold as local. I know my honey is real. I don’t ever think I’ve bought non-honey. Debbie Lisman McClelland via Facebook says. Thank you for a great post as always. Everything else is contaminated too, better stop eating all together. While she adores hats & happy skirts, nothing inspires her quite like geeking out over nutrition & sustainable agriculture. Please change your stock photo for this article. Sorry, but if you are so concerned about fake honey BUT eat JUNK FOOD, well you need to educate yourself and your family a bit more on fast food! This is goodness. This is true, but since, if you are buying raw honey, it hasn’t been heated to a very high temperature, the amount of “petrochemical soup” that migrates to the honey is going to be minimal, compared to what you find in items such as canned tomatoes – which are both treated at high temperatures and pressures, as well as being highly acidic. and also added in your RSS feeds, so when I have time I’m a beekeeper and it is a struggle to convince people that what they are getting isn’t real honey. This doesn’t sound right to me. Bees can travel upwards around 2 miles to get pollen to their hives and the farmer selling it may be organic, but the plants they are getting their honey from may be filled with pesticides and whatnot (somewhere out there someone tested honey for pesticides and other “cides” and found high contents even from organic farms). If they mind, you probably don’t want to support them anyway. They cannot be triggered by something that is not in your area. it was great!! I never read anything about honey coming from China. Just curious. Yes, but it’s not going to happen 100% of the time. I live in a big city no access to farms I don’t drive and couldn’t get to farms in upstate NEW YORK ! Costco is an American-based warehouse retailer that sells items ranging from fresh produce and electrical appliances to wine and optical items. Nobody’s checking and it’s profitable. (source). Sad, but true. While there may be greedy and unethical people in every political party and persuasion, there seems to be a consensus in the Republican party that regulation, or anything else for that matter, by government is evil. So, I’ve basically *always* bought REAL honey from a local beekeeper. It states that the vast majority of honey has undergone ultra-filtration. I wouldn’t throw the bear shape out with the bathwater because my local honey farmer packages it in little bears as well! In the winter your honey should be hard to scoop out, in the summer, it’s a bit easier but a little thicker then peanut butter. Is the honey in the plastic bear bottle filtered honey from aChina with no pollen in it? Usually, if you find one you’ll find links to many others. Is there a test to find out if the honey has been watered down or corn syrup has been added ? Pollen spores can drift hundreds of miles, given the right wind. I shared on my Zen Mama Facebook page! Another food item to be wary of is Olive Oil. This makes me wonder if maple syrup on the market is similarly and as universally adulterated. I’m lucky enough to live within 10 minutes of at least 3 different local honey sources. It’s depressing. Gasp! It’s raw, THICK, and wonderful. As for honey, if you tend to use a lot of it—especially for baking—there’s no better buy. We do not buy honey at all anymore. Munro Honey that you have pictured is indeed real pure Canadian honey. According to my recent research, that means I’m safe. That’s pretty outrageous pricing. It went straight in the bin. In a perfect world bees are provided a plethora of pollen and nectar from a variety of sources and supplemental feeding is not needed. All that to say, stick with buying honey from a single farm or small co-op. This happens by ingesting these local pollens. we feed fish GMO corn and bees HFCS? Yes bees collect pollen and nectar from flowers but a very large portion of the pollen they collect is from trees and even some grasses (like ragweed). We try to keep sweetening to a minimum, but when we do, it is usually with honey. After enough scandals involving cheap adulterated Chinese honey flooding the American market, the FTC imposed stiff tariffs on Chinese honey in 2001 to try to stop it from being imported. “. She’s a passionate advocate for REAL FOOD — food that’s sustainable, organic, local, and traditionally-prepared according to the wisdom of our ancestors. They also say their almonds are raw, which they are not (another good article for the food renegade). No pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers. This story saddens me. Is it used in certain kinds of cooking? Uh, unless you live in a few New England states, all breakfast or pancake syrup is NOT maple syrup. This time, the Costco post has really taken on a life of its own, even receiving its own Snopes debunk. There are tens of thousands of tiny operators spread from the Yangtze River and coastal Guangdong and Changbai to deep inland Qinghai province. A small co-op? Go. Where is the “BOOO” button! But I find myself having to explain that it is still pure honey, simply because it isn’t labeled “organic”. Is it this widespread. And, it helps if they’re local so that you can meet the people and judge their trustworthiness yourself. Posted by u/[deleted] 1 year ago. While it attaches to opioid receptors to take away cravings like Suboxone or methadone, it doesn’t suppress breathing like true opioids, making it a far safer & superior substitute for those choosing to taper off using substitution therapy. On the plus side, I’ve seen raw local honey from Long Beach and Bellflower at my Whole Foods. I just don’t personally know them or if they have a local apiary. Hi! Homeland security has pretty much shut them down in the US, but the fake honey still comes in to be sold to the unsuspecting kufr (us) for big bucks to send home. also included your RSS feeds, so when I have time I will be back to read more, Honey Bees will gather every and any form of nectar , sugar source , etcetera available to them from their environment . I can get local, raw, unfiltered honey all over town. I agree with you . Your husband’s allergies are triggered by pollen from the plants (whether his allergist recognizes them as having flowers or not) that grow where you live. Oh, I see! The 1/3rd fake is misleading bodies into different paths than the good faith done by consumer. I thought to myself “who are they trying to fool, or what kind of fool do they think that I am.” The sad thing is I know people who are diabetic who would buy the silly stuff thinking that it helps them control their blood sugar. It may not be as nice as fresh honey from a local farmer, but it’s pretty good from a basic grocery store with no “health food” section. The cursor says “fake-honey” because those are the keywords the page is search engine optimized for, not because it’s making any claims about the contents of the photo. My favorite is from a little old lady who keeps bees just a few miles from me. If you want truly pure, uncontaminated beeswax, you have to hunt down a beekeeper who not only does not treat his/her bees but also uses no commercial foundations or starter strips, nor reuses any hive components that would have wax from any of those systems. Some will feed them sugar syrup but the HFCS is quicker & easier. my youngest needs “training” glasses and vision therapy to learn properly? The page is optimized for the keywords “kombucha scoby,” so every single picture includes those words — even the picture at the bottom of Hannah Crum. 22 comments. Meanwhile, the FDA is on a crusade to ban kratom–a natural leaf that’s helped thousands quit opioids & other drugs. The same goes for milk. UGH!! The kids wouldn’t eat the teddy bear honey though. Many honey producers keep their hives at some location very far from where their label says. I get my honey locally from a farmer’s market, but will be asking more questions now. … Enter your email to receive great offers from Costco Business Delivery. But a very good fake because it passed all tests prior to these 2 you mentioned pollen and sufficient honey markers by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. I can’t help but wonder if the allergist thinks there are 2% and skim cows. There are those of us who like/enjoy the taste of certain foods, but can’t have the “real” type, so we have no other choice but to buy the other stuff. Ask the packer, whose name should appear on the label. Learn how your comment data is processed. So, if you want to know your beekeepers feeding methods, just ask — but realize that many will do supplemental feedings now & then. My seasonal allergies have never been so mild during the spring and summer since eating her honey! A little, like a teaspoon or honey stick, every day year round will slowly cure a person’s seasonal allergies, by getting their immune system used to the minute amounts of the allergens every day. always buy your honey local because it is the best if you have any allergy problems, for example, don’t buy that junk on the shelf and don’t buy from CA if you live in PA. Nancy Flaws Hart — That depends on how it’s sourced. Then I met someone who had an online business and who also recommend to me that the local honey i was buying was very good. The problem with raw honey at Costco is that it’s most likely not local honey. That’s way different than posting excerpts or quotes and linking back to my site! So hopefully it still has pollen. Guess that means you better quit breathing, too, lest you breathe in some of them. I dunno but this entire article just dripped with racism at CHINA BAD, USA GOOD! Higher temperature and pressure mean greater reactivity between the honey and its container. You may be a passionate advocate for real food, BUT quite lax when it comes to choosing the image for this particular blog. Just think, most generic heart medications are now made in China, but there has never been an in plant inspection because the Chinese government doesn’t recognise our inspectors as having authority. Almost all the pollen remains intact in the honey, and it helps make a slightly more shelf-stable product. Their brand deserved to be celebrated, not shunned because of an irresponsible blogger! I count myself a little bit lucky to be living in Australia. Just another story that strengthens my resolve to never by food products from China again. Many greedy honey producers here add other cheap sugars to their honey. So, as with olive oil, the real stuff is out there. Item 428041 Add. Ugh – this is so depressing. Karen L answered you correctly, If the only word on the ingredients listing is honey., it's real honey. So yes, at $36.99, this is definitely a “deal” at Costco, if you can call it that. I will be back to read much more, Please do keep up the great work. Yes, that’s true, but David makes a great point. So yes…you can find REAL Honey on the shelf:) we have Picture Pollen Tested Proof:) honey is also superb in salad dressings. I think that the wrong honey is a better option for us and local honey is even better especially if you have allergies. I think that we may have many good reason to start in the spring. Kirkland Clover Honey and Kirkland Raw Source Honey are super sweet — and it's not just the way they taste. Comvita's Manuka Honey is also available in Costco warehouses throughout Canada. These companies all *believe* they’re selling 100% olive oil or 100% honey. I did not even look at the label to see what unrecognizable things were in it. THIS ARTICLE WILL BE POSTED AND COPIED TO THE MUNRO COMPANY HERE SO THEY ARE AWARE OF YOU USING THEIR BRAND. That’s my only excuse for being oblivious to this news story for a whole year! This honey is considered superior to traditional honey because of its impressive antibacterial and antioxidant properties. The information on this website has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any disease. Really only two things come to mind with this story.. Greed & Republicans. It was produced in the Midwest (Michigan or Wisconsin). it should called “artificial honey flavoured” or “crap trying to taste and look like honey”. You sound well-informed and certain, which is why I wondered. It is a product of Brazil. Yes, I want to know about maple syrup too! Its says it is organic, natural honey. What you want is the opposite of that. I get it from my back yard. You can get real honey from the grocery store. Traditional beekeeping starts a hive with a lot of bees, a queen, and no nectar, so a conscientious beekeeper will give the bees some kind of sugar syrup as food just until the hive is established. BTW if you enjoy our product, ask for it at Whole Foods in Chicago, we hope it will be available there soon. I hate that everyting you buy in the supermarket is soooo overprocessed. Thanks for this info! Just putting it out there, I happen to sell pure honey in my farm market. Thank you for bringing this dilemma to light, consumers need to be more savvy when buying honey. The picture you have is from a Canadian family owned business and therefore is NOT FAKE HONEY as it depicts. It is good to have folks like you letting the people know about these companies selling inferior products, misleading and misguiding the people. Ok, this needs to get asked. I don’t know why we import that rubbish when there are so many other reputable Australian honey suppliers on our shelves. Its almost impossible to find real honey anymore, Even local honey is not safe. Is inferior honey imported illegally? Founder and CEO of Food Renegade, she's a passionate advocate for REAL FOOD -- food that's sustainable, organic, local, and traditionally-prepared according to the wisdom of our ancestors. It has been in business for 100 years and is 100% Canadian honey. Although I agree with you that local is best, do you think anything in this article is true? mostly get it from local beekeepers, cheap honey in stores is processed junk. Bees can travel up to 12 miles to find pollen. Instead, it’s just a picture of honey since the post is about honey. I buy local to help with allergies, but now I’m going to make sure I keep doing it to get the real deal. I’ve been promising friends a blog post on this very issue but have yet to get to it. One, honey will burn, corn syrup will not. We recently moved back to California, but I haven’t had the chance to go honey shopping yet. Hello I am so thrilled I found your webpage, I really found you by error, while I was searching on Bing for something else, Nonetheless I am here now And 150,000 mt of 450,000 world trade honey volume is too much. The reason that is important is because a lot of Chinese honey has fillers added to their honey so it’s not pure honey. Just to clarify, Chloramphenicol is NOT banned by the FDA. Again good article. I didn’t know this until I started keeping bees myself. Much honey is smuggled by middle eastern money launderers/loansharks that have ties to terrorists. As with most real food, it’s usually priced quite well if you buy direct from producers instead of retail stores. “In my judgment, it is pretty safe to assume that any ultra-filtered honey on store shelves is Chinese honey and it’s even safer to assume that it entered the country uninspected and in violation of federal law,” he added. But I didn’t know that the vast majority of the major labels of honey sold in the U.S. aren’t real honey. By Nica C. Jacksonville, FL. with lemon, olive oil …. They protect Big Business’s pocket book only. Manuka has darker coloring and thicker texture than most honey… I had no idea! I'll be honest. Aside from being filtered and pasteurized, Bee Maid’s liquid honey you can buy on the shelves is the same honey that you find in the hives. It all gets brought back to the house bees to be stored away . I haven’t bought the refined supermarket stuff for years. Please do keep up the superb work. *New* Kirkland Raw Unfiltered Honey $8.99 available at Costco in Frisco, TX. I always wondered why it was so much cheaper. Food Renegade, I didn’t think you’d mind. We have had a few local honey scams, one organic beekeeper couldn’t keep up with demand so started rebottling Chinese honey. So, they slap an ingredients label on the product that says 100% “olive oil” or “honey” and nothing else. The pollen sacks on their legs picks up whatever else is in close proximity to that sweet source . In my book, that’s a single beekeeper, a small farm, or possibly a small co-op. This was the best photo I could find. She does mention organic store bought honeys near the end of the article and 28% contain no pollen. When purchasing honey it is very important to know where the honey is from, is there a phone number or website to ask questions. This would mean that 100% of the honey found in CVS and Walgreens is illegal. While not particularly tasty on your morning toast, real manuka honey is potent enough to be considered medicine. MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE IF THEY EAT A SPOONFUL OF THIS POLLEN EVERY DAY IT WILL HELP THEIR ALLERGIES. My family of five eats about a quart of honey per month. He said, “It’s kind of like they’re running a car-stealing ring. I am a chemical free organic beekeeper and I am getting big enough that I want to start going to farmers markets. The lead contamination in some honey has been attributed to these mom-and-pop vendors who use small, unlined, lead-soldered drums to collect and store the honey before it is collected by the brokers for processing. As recently as last year, U.S. District Attorneys arrested a number of individuals who had ties to a global honey laundering conspiracy involving the largest honey importer in the country. 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