I just came across the video and also some of the comments below and would like to clarify a few things if I can. The first thing is that all natural honey has different viscosities, colors, tastes and ratios of glucose to fructose. This is because honey is dependent on the nectar flows in the area in which the honey bees are foraging. This also means that from year to year, each batch of honey will be slightly to moderately different in color, taste, etc. Usually, with normal rainfall many of the same plants will bloom, in about the same proportions and at around the same times, so the honey is usually consistent from year to year. But, draught or above average rainfall will change that, as will a difference in forage such as a new farmer planting 40 acres of Alfalfa. In short, you cannot tell if honey is natural or commercial. Honey imported from China is actually cut...or mixed with corn syrup, not pure corn syrup. Most of your cereal or snack bar products with honey in them, actually contain honey bought from China and as such, are not wholly honey. Large honey producers in the U.S. and abroad filter honey through a high pressure filter that removes all pollen and crystallized honey particles. They also usually heat the honey to around 160 degrees, which pasteurizes it, but in the process destroys healthy enzymes contained in the honey and removes the pollen granules. It is still honey, but with none of the health benefits, such as healthy enzymes, and it will not help with allergies because of the absence of pollen granules (which your body treats similar to an immunization). Commercial producers do this so that the honey will not crystallize (granulate) on the store shelf. Incidentally, honey can be heated to 120 degrees without killing the enzymes or de-naturing the honey in any way. Also, commercial producers do not add any preservatives to honey, as there is no need for it. Honey has been found in Egyptian tombs, re-liquified and eaten. Honey, in it's natural form does not go bad, but if anything is added that raises the water content of honey, it will ferment, and can mold. If, in the U.S. honey is labeled as "Pure Honey" it is legally (not that there aren't cheaters out there) required to contain only honey, nothing else. I don't know of any beekeeper's in the U.S. that feed sugar syrup during a honey flow, although there could be a few bad apples out there. If the product is pure honey there is no legal need for a nutrition label either. The FDA does not allow anything but pure honey to be labeled as "Pure Honey". It is illegal for beekeepers to water down their honey with any product, unless there is a nutrition label that includes ingredients. Honey has never been linked to a single infant death, however, early in the 20th century an infant diagnosed with Botulism had been fed honey within the incubation period for Botulism. Researchers then discovered that Botulism is a spore that will not grow in honey, but does not die either. Honey is deadly to bacteria and viruses however and is the reason why honey is now being used on Band-aids. With the exception of just a couple of medications, it is illegal for beekeepers to apply during the time in which they are collecting surplus honey from the honey bees. The few that can be used when honey supers are on (which is where the bees store the honey that will be extracted later by the beekeeper) have been tested. The tests show that the medication, which is all-natural Formic Acid, vaporizes and flows out of the hive without contaminating any surplus honey, or honey that is food for the hive. There is actually certified organic honey, although the constraints for honey labeled as such by the FDA are extremely high, including crops that are certified as organic within 30 miles of the hives, with no exceptions. Because of these constraints, and others, I know of no certified organic honey producers. As for pesticides...the U.S. is the largest user of pesticides in the world, Mexico uses very little relatively speaking. However, pesticides, on all of the studies I have seen, do not seep into the nectar of flowering plants, but it is contained in very small amounts in the pollen of agricultural crops, or flowering plants very close to fields of crops that are sprayed. Neonicotinoids, or neonics have not been found in honey as far as I am aware, and only in extremely small amounts of pollen, with concentrations so low that it won't harm honey bees. There is an extremely polarized debate in this area, but all of the dozens of studies I have seen do not support evidence that Neonics contaminate pollen, rather, older pesticides that are used in conjunction with crop dusters are contained within pollen granules in heavier and more harmful concentrations. If anyone is wondering, I am a beekeeper with over 20 years of experience, and a passion for both honey bees and beekeeping! Sorry for the long post, but I hope it was informative.
According to all the research I have read on the subject anytime honey is heated to above 120 degrees it begins to kill the enzymes. If you add hot water at 160 degrees I am assuming it will kill the enzymes. However, it is also duration dependent so if the temperature of the honey hits 160 degrees for a very short period of time it won't kill all of the enzymes, but I can't give you a specific amount of time. If for example you put honey in your hot tea, the enzymes would almost certainly be killed, however, honey is still a much preferable sweetener than any over the counter sugars, just without the enzymes. Even if the enzymes are killed honey contains other nutrients and beneficial properties. But if you want the enzymes, most research I have read say that eating a teaspoon of raw honey every day is beneficial for your health and according to some sources if it is local honey, allergies as well.
hello there 😊 I live in NY how can I find the honey with the comb inside is that better? and how can you tell good honeys from bad honey? like raw or organic? which is a good brand etc? do I have to travel far to get good honey like upstate?
+geremi Hi Geremi, pardon the reply but I'd rather give detailed advice than not enough. I am not familiar with NY but what I would do is look up some local beekeepers, or a beekeeping club. Call them or a representative and they can give you a start on where to find a local beekeeper that makes comb honey. What you are referring to is actually called "Chunk Honey", I think which is where a chunk of comb honey (honey that is taken off the bees and cut into pieces that will fit into a jar) and then the rest of the jar is filled with honey. You can also get comb honey which is simply a container that has honey still in the wax honeycomb (which can be cut up and put into jars for Comb Honey, or not). This is simply referred to as comb honey. It usually comes in three different ways; Ross Rounds which is a round plastic container that houses the comb, or it can just be a square plastic container where comb was simply cut to the right size and then put into the container for sale, or my favorite way is where wooden boxes house the comb honey. These wooden boxes were put into the hive and the bees made the wax, filled it with honey and then capped the honeycomb with more wax. The beekeeper just pulls out the boxes and sells them (actually Ross Rounds are also made in a similar way). Buying comb honey is the most organic, raw honey that you can possibly buy, but, at least in my area it is very few people that actually buy it, so beekeepers just don't produce it like they used to. Honey that is raw or organic has a few misnomers. First, bees can travel up to about twelve miles to search for nectar. That means that if there are crops that use pesticides, GMO's or Neonicotinoids within a 12 mile radius from the hives (24 mile diameter area) it is impossible to be registered with the USDA as an organic product. This also takes three years to get registered so if a jar of honey is labeled as "organic" but doesn't have the USDA label...ignore it. Some beekeepers say they're honey is organic if they don't use medications or pesticides in their hives, but the harsh truth is that no one can keep bees from visiting flowers that may have pesticides on them (think dandelions on a homeowners grass) and so no honey can be guaranteed to be "organic". If it is labeled by the USDA as organic it is proof that the beekeeper has gone through the hoops and tried as hard as possible to produce honey that is pesticide free. Raw honey is also a misnomer, unless you actually do buy it in the comb. My definition of raw honey (and they're may be different definitions because it isn't legally defined) is that honey is raw if it was never heated above 120 degrees F, and was only strained, not pressure or micro-filtered. If honey is never heated to 120 degrees, and only strained, all of the enzymes, pollens and nutrients that you are looking for are still in the honey. As far as where you can look to purchase, local honey is usually the best to look for first and the ideas I put out there above are a good place to start. Of course, I don't know what brands are good in NY because I am from Colorado. Thanks for the question and sorry for the post that was probably entirely too long!
Thank you for all the great and informative information. It put me on a hunt for local honey and I'm happy to have just one I'm excited to try. I'm disheartened to learn about what is really being sold under the guise of [honey] and I'm a big honey user. For the most part I only buy certain honey, but recently I purchased some from costco that said 'organic' raw honey (USDA) which my daughter told me about. Now I'm questioning if this is true honey or not and why that matters is because I bought a bunch of it. Anyway, great info... great vid to the gentleman that got us chatting about it, too. Thanks for your input [above]. :)
The difference in viscosity between the Costco one and the local one is most likely the result of different floral sources and heat treatment, and has nothing to do with dilution or purity. Just in case anyone was wondering. If you pasteurize honey it becomes runnier and stays that way longer without thickening or crystallizing. Also if the water content is over 18% to 21% bacteria is able to survive in it and it ferments, so you can't water down honey then sell it, it would ferment in the bottle and the gases released by the fermentation process would cause the bottle to explode, probably before you had a chance to sell much of it. So not likely. More likely they would dilute it with sugar syrup with a similar water content to honey. If it's labled as "Grade A" or "100% honey" it's probably pure, if it isn't it may have added syrup of some kind. If you buy raw honey it will crystallize sooner, you'll then have to heat it to get it to become fluid again, destroying the enzymes and ruining the health benefits raw honey has over the pasteurized stuff. You can eat it when it's crystallized, it just has a very different texture, it never actually spoils if it's pure.
Cinnamon and honey is a thousands of years old medication for sore throats in India. And also rubbing on wounds as well. Btw the viscosity depends on the bee species and the flowers it has to work with.
I love raw honey. I've pretty much just decided to buy the Stakich brands of raw honey. It's thicker than butter. It's almost a solid. Filled with vitamins, pollen and enzymes. It's 100% unlike your average honey from a conventional grocery store. I don't think most people understand what honey looks like or tastes like in it's natural state
My raw honey heals cuts way better than triple antibiotics.Plus a nice small money making hobby.The Taste of real raw honey is amazing,compared to the crap you buy in stores.
Ben Dover I had cut my toe while riding a bike barefoot. Really fucked my toe up. A few weeks later it got severely infected and I was put on three different antibiotics. First amoxicillin. Then cephalexin. Then clindamycin. The clindamycin helped a bit. But after about a week it stopped helping and it was getting bad again. A bit fed up, I went ahead and tried First some sterilized manuka honey then when that ran out, some regular raw, unfiltered manuka honey. Both were...incredible. I'm not one of those people who relies on all natural remedies. But as someone in the science community I fear we are screwing ourselves with the over use of antibiotics. And I do think in the near future medicinal honey will be as normalized as antibiotics. A friend of mine who works in a hospital says it's often used in bandage dressings, and their burn unit frequently uses it. Apparently they have a gel form of it so I don't think it's as natural but either way the benefits are there I'm sure, if they're making a point to use it.
It's absolutly sickening that corporations would dilute honey with water or false honey just to increase profit, don't you care about your consumers at all? when will people start caring about eachother instead of eight fold profit. Even just to do scientific research people want to know why if it's not beneficial to humans.just idiotic and sickening people are.
do you really thing big corporations have people at heart.. all they want is your money not your satisfaction, they don't even care about your wellness, they know what they add in their stuff might be very dangerous but ''hey it tastes good people will buy it who cares''.... things will never change it was always like that and will always be unfortuately.
+platinum10000 not nessedarily Theodore Roosevelt founded the FDA for food regulation. If more laws are placed into affect for consumption we could end this. Even today alcohol companies do not have to list what ingredients are in them simply because no laws were placed on it. We just need to start a movement
you are right, but you know there will always be monsanto and all those crazy companies, it's just an exemple but you know, there is light somewhere but it's very slim
When buying honey...Does anybody know HOW TO TELL IF THE HONEY (HAS BEEN PASTEURIZED)...OR NOT? Obviously high heat destroys key enzymes and important bioavailable molecules; thereby reducing the health benefits.
Not inherently true. It has no expiration date so long as it is stored correctly. It can and will ferment if stored improperly or in non-ideal conditions.
Raw honey can be contaminated with a variety of things(pesticides to keep beetles and mites under control is a common one), and just like commercial honey can be watered down. Most but not all raw honey does crystallize eventually and it is usually thicker as the video says. Its much better to buy honey from a beekeeper in your local area, most of the farmers markets I have been too will have a honey vendor. If you can't find one, look online for your local beekeeping association and get some contacts. Raw honey is an awesome healthful sweetener and an excellent alternative to sugar in your coffee and cooking.
I just came across the video and also some of the comments below and would like to clarify a few things if I can. The first thing is that all natural honey has different viscosities, colors, tastes and ratios of glucose to fructose. This is because honey is dependent on the nectar flows in the area in which the honey bees are foraging. This also means that from year to year, each batch of honey will be slightly to moderately different in color, taste, etc. Usually, with normal rainfall many of the same plants will bloom, in about the same proportions and at around the same times, so the honey is usually consistent from year to year. But, draught or above average rainfall will change that, as will a difference in forage such as a new farmer planting 40 acres of Alfalfa. In short, you cannot tell if honey is natural or commercial. Honey imported from China is actually cut...or mixed with corn syrup, not pure corn syrup. Most of your cereal or snack bar products with honey in them, actually contain honey bought from China and as such, are not wholly honey. Large honey producers in the U.S. and abroad filter honey through a high pressure filter that removes all pollen and crystallized honey particles. They also usually heat the honey to around 160 degrees, which pasteurizes it, but in the process destroys healthy enzymes contained in the honey and removes the pollen granules. It is still honey, but with none of the health benefits, such as healthy enzymes, and it will not help with allergies because of the absence of pollen granules (which your body treats similar to an immunization). Commercial producers do this so that the honey will not crystallize (granulate) on the store shelf. Incidentally, honey can be heated to 120 degrees without killing the enzymes or de-naturing the honey in any way. Also, commercial producers do not add any preservatives to honey, as there is no need for it. Honey has been found in Egyptian tombs, re-liquified and eaten. Honey, in it's natural form does not go bad, but if anything is added that raises the water content of honey, it will ferment, and can mold. If, in the U.S. honey is labeled as "Pure Honey" it is legally (not that there aren't cheaters out there) required to contain only honey, nothing else. I don't know of any beekeeper's in the U.S. that feed sugar syrup during a honey flow, although there could be a few bad apples out there. If the product is pure honey there is no legal need for a nutrition label either. The FDA does not allow anything but pure honey to be labeled as "Pure Honey". It is illegal for beekeepers to water down their honey with any product, unless there is a nutrition label that includes ingredients. Honey has never been linked to a single infant death, however, early in the 20th century an infant diagnosed with Botulism had been fed honey within the incubation period for Botulism. Researchers then discovered that Botulism is a spore that will not grow in honey, but does not die either. Honey is deadly to bacteria and viruses however and is the reason why honey is now being used on Band-aids. With the exception of just a couple of medications, it is illegal for beekeepers to apply during the time in which they are collecting surplus honey from the honey bees. The few that can be used when honey supers are on (which is where the bees store the honey that will be extracted later by the beekeeper) have been tested. The tests show that the medication, which is all-natural Formic Acid, vaporizes and flows out of the hive without contaminating any surplus honey, or honey that is food for the hive. There is actually certified organic honey, although the constraints for honey labeled as such by the FDA are extremely high, including crops that are certified as organic within 30 miles of the hives, with no exceptions. Because of these constraints, and others, I know of no certified organic honey producers. As for pesticides...the U.S. is the largest user of pesticides in the world, Mexico uses very little relatively speaking. However, pesticides, on all of the studies I have seen, do not seep into the nectar of flowering plants, but it is contained in very small amounts in the pollen of agricultural crops, or flowering plants very close to fields of crops that are sprayed. Neonicotinoids, or neonics have not been found in honey as far as I am aware, and only in extremely small amounts of pollen, with concentrations so low that it won't harm honey bees. There is an extremely polarized debate in this area, but all of the dozens of studies I have seen do not support evidence that Neonics contaminate pollen, rather, older pesticides that are used in conjunction with crop dusters are contained within pollen granules in heavier and more harmful concentrations. If anyone is wondering, I am a beekeeper with over 20 years of experience, and a passion for both honey bees and beekeeping! Sorry for the long post, but I hope it was informative.
Exactly, I hear people try and talk about medication all the time, and they're always way off. The amount of medication that you're allowed to have in packed honey prepared for the consumer is so low that nobody would be harmed by it, ever. I always laugh at the 'organic' and 'natural' brand honey. I had a back-yard bee keeper within our area try to sell 'organic' honey in our local farmers market. Our bees are within flying distance of each other, and I know for a fact that the farmer across the road from his hives isn't an "organic" farmer. Shady bee keepers try to get around the 'organic' labeling with buzz words and a bunch of other laughable things. If only their customers knew that some of those particularly shady hobby guys that do that stuff often come to the bigger outfits to buy honey when they run out in the middle of the winter lol.
I have bees in my backyard and once friends have tasted it they will never buy it from the store. Zero pesticides and I never feed them. Even if you buy organic honey they can still feed the bees corn syrup which alters the flavor dramatically. By the way, they dilute store bought with corn syrup, water would cause it to crystallize.
For everybody who "knows" what raw honey looks like, you can't tell what raw honey looks like. The color of any honey is dependent on what the bees see foraging on. Buckwheat honey is real dark almost black and has a strong taste. Clover honey is much lighter in color and taste. All honey will crystallize, it's what honey does. Some do it faster than others. Cotton honey crystallizes almost immediately. There is NO test that you can do at home (unless you're some sort of geek with a science lab at home) to prove one way or the other if it's raw or not. Some honey has a bad taste like goldenrod (yuck) so taste differs. This guy is right. KNOW YOUR BEEKEEPER
J Rivera .... Pure Honey is THICKER than Other ones...THAT'S how you can SEE if it's Pure. The way I know this, is because I grew up in a farm and used to Collect Honey, straight from the Hive....to me, the Best Honey is right off the Comb!!
Bull shit. You get a microscope and look for pollen, If there is pollen in the "honey" then it's for sure honey. Pollen is too expensive to add to corn syrup to try and fool the microscope. You can tell which pollen is which as well so if you're buying clover honey it'd better have some clover pollen in it. YOU CAN TELL.
I fed too much sugar water before winter. I think I'm going to need to extract the sugar water before the flow starts so I can get real honey not funny honey. I wish could tell when frames were actually honey, some look like they could be my fall flow. But I don't want to risk it. So I'll extract and feed it back to them in the summer so I can get pure honey.
I'd much rather raise my own bees, then I know 100% where my honey came from. Any commercial honey produced in the US may have a minimal of 51% honey and 49% corn syrup is what the FDA allows. At least that's what was said in beekeeping class.
Make sure to only feed them food they require in their diet. You're going to have to feed them pure naturals otherwise the bees will make false honey because of the additives. Also, get bees from around your place or somewhere off city so the honey can be more natural and unfiltered.
So I feed my bees marijuana flowers, best honey ever! And the bees are mellow all the time. They seem to be out foraging more than other bees I've kept.
I absolutely love honey and years ago found out from a documentary about bees and honey. I tried buying local real honey from farmers market and so on but it was really expensive and we didn't always have the kind of money so I bought honey from Costco and other places thinking it's fine even though it's in big stores. It's so upsetting to think I'm trying with what I got $$$ which isn't always a lot and to be deceived 😧 makes it worse. Thanks for taking the time and sharing
My question is about the Kirkland RAW ORGANIC honey in the bear bottle. Says from Brazil, ingredients are only raw honey, and it doesn’t seem to bubble like the clover Kirkland honey. So my question is it reliable? I know I should be using local honey now, but when I bought it I thought if it says it is it must be. I’m more aware now of labels, but I’m still confused on things like this. Because I’ve recently learned most honey is cut and not always listed on the ingredients.
Can someone explain to me why this Raw Honey is orange colored, and liquid, whereas the beige colored raw honey isn't liquid? What did they do to it? Thanks
I definitely try to go to my farmer's market for honey instead of buying commercial brand honey. There's also a syrup taste in commercial brand honey that im not a fan of.
i live in a small town in southern greece ,i get honey not from the super market but from local bee keepers ,there are different kinds of colours and viscosity and aromas depending on where the bees where parked, if they were near citrus trees the honey will not be thick or dark it will be shitty now on the other hand if they were in the mountains where they forged off of pine trees ,thyme and mountain tea the honey will be thick and brown you could stand up the tea spoon in the can ,real thick honey, one time i ran out of honey and bought honey from the supermarket it just happened to be Argentina honey and it was horribly thin and tasted like sugar,my bad. and one more secret to all who don't know ,if the honey doesn't crystalize its not pure honey
Important correction RE: his statement that honey is made from pollen. Honey is made primarily from nectar, not pollen. Any pollen present in the finished honey is incidental and in very low (negligible) quantities.
Most areas have some sort of bee keeping network. I would Google your area to see whom can be contacted and is interested in selling you the honey comb. Personally I like the slightly fermented honey from the combs the bees seem to forget about.
What is the best raw honey out on the market? I always assumed that raw honey tastes a bit bitter because of raw definition by itself. I just hope it's safe to use for cosmetic purposes and enhancing women feminity.
at time 3:12 and on, this is not a fair viscosity test. The best measure is going to be done using a refractometer to test the brix. Secondly, local raw honey will most always be of a better raw quality. The buyer should be aware that honey from BIG commercial producers is usually a blended variety to provide product consistency. If you are concerned about getting the best honey, ask a local producer where their apiary is located so you know best where the honey is produced. Today, many herbalists will not consider a product to be raw and unfiltered honey unless it has small quantities of dissolved pollen within the product. This is found to be extremely beneficial to local seasonal pollen allergic people. BUT NEVER GIVE POLLEN TO A CHILD UNDER 1 YEAR OLD.
Like the video, just wanted to point out that pollen and nectar are separate things. They are stored separately in the hive. There are also other things stored separately like royal jelly. These things are sometimes extracted separately and in most cases sold or used for their different purposes. Some bee keepers just put everything in a centrifuge and mix it all together and call it raw honey, some separate it and call it raw honey or just plain honey. The difference is pasteurization, the heating of the honey that kills the probiotic properties in it and it is rendered and filtered as that brown or somewhat clear filtered stuff that is known by most folks ad honey. Raw honey is just what it says raw or uncooked honey just like raw meat or veggies. Personally I think it should be noted on raw honey if it contains pollen and royal jelly but that I guess is too much to ask for from the corporate boot licking FDA...
Actually pure honey contains natural pollen. 1. pollen fall from the antheres of the blossom in the nectar (gravitation, wind, wiggling bees etc.), 2. pollen fall in the open nectar cells because pollen stick to the bees (in the hive), 3. you are right: beekeeper use centrifuges and eventually mix pollen cells and honey cells sometimes.
Not so much they are very good housekeepers, everything in its place... Also like I said pollen is stored separate by the bees. Many beekeepers don't mix the pollen they separate it before using the centrifuge and sell it as pollen for health food.
Honey and lemon is also known to be a health beneficial medicine too. My mum used to give it to me a lot while I had an undiagnosed but also rare cancer.
The size of them honey bottles,makes a difference on how that bubble travels ,,,slow or fast, I think it's not accurate for quality testing on raw honey or not.
For a sore throat, I've repetitively seen to chew propolis, which is resins bees collect to seal and glue inside parts. I haven't needed to use it, but, if u have a sore throat, check with a local beekeeper to get bee glue or propolis. It might matter if it's recently gathered as old propolis can be in a hive forever. Whether it matters I do not know as I've been fortunate not to have had a sore throat in decades and not interested in having one either. If I did, I might gargle with Ambesol. Yet if I had fresh propolis, I'd try it. A hive is actually sterile.
No way to compare with like this method, but yes if you use same amount honey in same bottle. How can you tell the right result by you comparing one small bottle with a bigger bottle, it's not right because of honey will heavier in the bigger bottle and that's why the air bubble traveled faster.
I love honey. I currently have almost 20 pounds of it. An Ayurvedic doctor recommended honey, cinnamon and ginger. I take a tablespoon of that every day. I love mead (honey wine) Honey is a good sweetner Fantastic on skin injuries and oh my God awesome on burns
Do Chinese people have conscience at all? I mean fake rice fake eggs fake everything ! And then I saw the rich Chinese business men's kids taking over Vancouver Canada and one of them was asked why live in Vancouver not China ? Then she said she wants fresh air and no fresh air in China...
China is also flooding the world with their pesticide garlic that is produced by forced prison labour. I saw a documentary where someone asked the Chinese rice grower if eats his own product and he said no he imports his rice from overseas because his product is polluted. So the farmer is willing to sell the rice to others even though he knows it's dodgy. People have to be willing to spend a little more and support their local producers.
You are 100% right. They sell plastic rice and plastic hardboiled eggs to people in China and it kills people but the government doesn't regulate quality control at all.
Thanks for the review. They chose a really funny label on the Kirkland honey, honey bees can't get nectar out of red clover. Any other color clover has nectar that the bees can collect. I planted Crimson Clover which is redder and has an elongated flower.
If the beekeeper sells his honey to a larger distributor, they do not fill jars or have to have their own label. Many beekeepers that produce and sell their own honey to the public are required to fill their own jars and label them. There are several regulations concerning what must be on the label. Do not think that because the label is not hand written that the beekeeper is not selling his own honey. It is much faster and very much more convenient to purchase the pre-printed labels and to apply them to the jars. You know the honey is from your local beekeeper because you should know him or her as a person and know you can or cannot trust him or her. Most beekeepers are hard working and would strongly resent the implication that their product was not produced by themselves, or that their product was adulterated in any way. That said, I am sure that there is at least one bad apple in every barrel of apples. That is true whatever the occupation. Get to know your local beekeeper as a person, instead of just a vendor of honey. Most beekeepers are willing to talk to you about their honey and are proud to share their experiences and knowledge about bees and honey with you.
Thank you very helpful. I'm using Labonte Natural Organic Honey, but not sure if it's actually that. :( I would rather pay more and get the real deal and I don't think this is it.
Well to be fair, you need to test viscosity of the honey via an air bubble with similar shaped and sized containers.. especially in terms of the containers width..
viscosity varies by area, type of hives, time of harvest, rainy or summer,type of harvesting, flower in that area, altitude etc .so viscosity is not big thing.i receive honey directly from gatherers of mountain....thats y im saying
can u check the so called organic honey from stores?. i did a check with one called oraginc wild flower honey from brazil. i did the test. it failed. i did notice they added to. and when i added it to filtered water. it had a chemical smell to it.
Density of Honey depends on several factors - 1. The species of the Bee 2. The Types of Flowers it collected from 3. The season We have to Bee-Home in my house. There is no way you can tell difference until it is tested in a laboratory.
I always buy local honey and almost all of them are very thick some of them even had some beeswax and some a little bit grainy in consistency ... and i agrre honey are very healthy...
but if your firs example is real raw honey how it can be packed in this tube if real honey has to crystalize at some point , after 6 months it will become solid ...
CP Da Boi Wonda I'm a backyard beekeeper @BushBoysBeehives & I bottle my honey by hand twice a month so it is always fresh & liquid. Depending on the variety it takes 6-12mos to solidify.
Last year's crop crystallized pretty quickly. Had an average of 15% moisture content. The fall goldenrod crop crystallized really fast. This year will be different. No way we have another 2017 for a long long time. It was a great year. Huge crop.
viscosity of the honey varies depending how old honey is , fresh just pumped honey is hot and liquidy, the older the honey gets the thicker it gets to the point it will crystalize , also if you have allergies you have to buy/consume honey from the area you live in ,as you exposed to pollen in ur area from local trees/plants , and you need honey from same place for best results , as honey will have that pollen and all the enzymes , my dad lives few miles from my house we both have hives , but honey differs alot mine is darker and thicker, my dad's much lighter and tastes way different , some seasons we have honey purple/green/redish in collor and they all taste differently depending on the time we harvest honey. if you want real honey buy local honey , everything at the store has been boiled and purified to meet FDA. B. S
I always buy honey from local bee keepers. Simply look up bee associations and buy it from nearest keeper. It was known in Egyption times that it was excellent for many ailments. Often found next to mummies it can still be eaten 2000 years later!
I’m trying LOCAL HIVE (L.R.Rice) Southern California honey.. it’s 8.99 at the local supermarket.. if you think that’s expensive , 3.5 grams of legal marijuana can cost 40-60 dollars.. anyways, I’ll let you guys know how the honey goes.. honey is a better alternative for licking off a persons body.. rather than oils lubes and such..
Met a guy selling honey at a Swap shop and the man really went off after I told him I bought honeycomb at Costco with him claiming it was China made fake. How does one fake capped comb?
Come here in the PH, you can find RAW unprocessed honey put inside alcohol bottles it even has some honeycomb and sometimes actual bees in it. Very delicious and quite cheap.
Thickness Varies and so does color Honey from Commercial sources are “Slop fed” instead of Sugar water or natural Feeding that bees get Commercial Sources use Corn syrup to feed the bees...
That organic honey is too thick but the one which i got from forest which is not a bottled one, it was not this thick but it passed in water test. It not at all dissolved in honey.
My Mom use to give me honey since i was 12 years. I am using Honey since that era. I gurreenteed you i never face any routine headache or any other problems like (constipation, eye sight, low energy etc etc etc. I used to take 1 Tsp of "Pure Organic Black Seed
hii! we just bought 2 of those big bottles of Kirkland's honey last June, and I've been taking it every morning until now. I'm afraid it did nothing to my body knowing its commercially made :(( we intend to cure my allergies.
I have bought raw honey from some local farms and I do prefer it over the store bought . there is a place in temple Texas that makes and sells honey and it is also sold in the local stores if you look on the label you can see there name. the problem with most raw road side honey is the cost. the last time I bought some near Cleveland Texas it was $6.50 for a small container. Pretty high I believe.
Well I have been absolutely sick over the honey I bought .Suppose to be a reputable honey source .My quart failed every test known .I can read words on paper on the other side right through the jar ! The worst part is there is so much water content I don't have to stir it to dissolve.Pours like water .And the foam is horrible .
I am a honey producer. I have 9 hives and will be expending to 20 this year (2020). Honey should have a water content of no more than 18%. The bees evaporate it down to this level to prevent fermentation in the comb. For "commercial" honey they dilute it down with water. This increases the water content beyond the fermentation limit. To prevent fermentation they heat it to kill any yeast spores. This also destroys the honey's health-giving enzymes and nutrients. The "honey" can be further diluted with sugar-syrup and colour adjusted with colourants. Flavouring can also be added. Some of the fake "honey" coming out of China, has no honey in it at all. Supermarkets often sell what they call "Honey" that is below the cost of production of real honey. As they are taking a hefty mark-up, the cost of whatever is in the bottle must be very low indeed. There is no way that it can be pure undiluted honey. It has to be fake or heavily adulterated. "You get you pay for" is very true in the case of honey. Stay safe. Buy local raw honey. You will not regret it.
I bought raw honey with pollen and within minutes felt an allergic reaction. If you're allergic to pollen in the air, I would think you would be allergic to raw honey, but your video says otherwise. I want to eat raw honey but now hesitant. Thoughts?
how does this help with allergies? I am allergic to every thing ie: ragweed,pollen,dust etc..will this help? and if I get raw honey vs organic does that matter as well?
+geremi Raw honey is best because it contains the pollen. Whatever reaction between the honey and the pollen alters your body's response to it when exposed to just the pollen. There's been studies on it, but that's the gist of it.
+geremi Raw honey does not help with allergies. It's a marketing strategy. The mechanism posited by marketers are that eating honey teaches your body to tolerate and not launch an immune response about pollen, which has much truth in it; this is actually how allergy shots work. However, raw honey and local honey will not help you for two reasons: 1) When you eat raw local honey, you are eating pollen from plants that flowered months ago, not the ones causing allergies now, but more importantly 2) The pollen that causes allergies are not found in honey. Grasses and trees are the main offenders that cause seasonal allergies, but these do not require pollination by bees, since they evolved to simply dump as much pollen into the air as possible and let the wind spread it around. Pollen from the flowers that bees visit evolved to need bees to pick up and transfer their pollen. Because of this, these flowers produce a sticky pollen that doesn't blow around easily and very tiny quantities of it. The pollen you inhale when you take a breath outside contains almost none of this. There are tons of studies that have demonstrated no immune boosting effects of raw honey. Most studies that find that raw honey prevents allergies are funded by the corporations that promote and sell raw honey. Independent scientists have never found this correlation. I can source if needed!
+Nicholas Morante You have no idea what you're saying! We are beekeepers, and sell at the local markets. Just yesterday a lady came to my door and told me how she is off of medication now thanks to raw honey. Did you make up this yarn yourself ^ , or did you get it from a source? I'd like to see it.
+geremi Do your own research, Nicholas is leading you astray. I am a firm believer in the benefits of raw honey. Honey is a healer, and has been helping people since the Egyptian times at least, if not farther back in history.
I have the imported kind of honey in my home right now, and I believe I've only ever tasted this kind of honey. It kind of grosses me out and it's made me a bit nauseous in the past. That being said, I want to like honey. It looks like it tastes good, especially the honeycombs. Does anyone know if local honey, generally speaking, tends to taste different (or better, in your opinion) from the kind of generic/internationally-sourced honey? I want another healthy snack option and opinions would be helpful. :) Edit: Oops, he talked about this in the video. Yeah, my honey tastes like farts with a hint of sugar. It's disgusting. I'd still like to hear from others on this, though, if anyone is up for it.
I just came across the video and also some of the comments below and would like to clarify a few things if I can.
The first thing is that all natural honey has different viscosities, colors, tastes and ratios of glucose to fructose. This is because honey is dependent on the nectar flows in the area in which the honey bees are foraging. This also means that from year to year, each batch of honey will be slightly to moderately different in color, taste, etc. Usually, with normal rainfall many of the same plants will bloom, in about the same proportions and at around the same times, so the honey is usually consistent from year to year. But, draught or above average rainfall will change that, as will a difference in forage such as a new farmer planting 40 acres of Alfalfa. In short, you cannot tell if honey is natural or commercial.
Honey imported from China is actually cut...or mixed with corn syrup, not pure corn syrup. Most of your cereal or snack bar products with honey in them, actually contain honey bought from China and as such, are not wholly honey.
Large honey producers in the U.S. and abroad filter honey through a high pressure filter that removes all pollen and crystallized honey particles. They also usually heat the honey to around 160 degrees, which pasteurizes it, but in the process destroys healthy enzymes contained in the honey and removes the pollen granules. It is still honey, but with none of the health benefits, such as healthy enzymes, and it will not help with allergies because of the absence of pollen granules (which your body treats similar to an immunization). Commercial producers do this so that the honey will not crystallize (granulate) on the store shelf. Incidentally, honey can be heated to 120 degrees without killing the enzymes or de-naturing the honey in any way. Also, commercial producers do not add any preservatives to honey, as there is no need for it. Honey has been found in Egyptian tombs, re-liquified and eaten. Honey, in it's natural form does not go bad, but if anything is added that raises the water content of honey, it will ferment, and can mold. If, in the U.S. honey is labeled as "Pure Honey" it is legally (not that there aren't cheaters out there) required to contain only honey, nothing else. I don't know of any beekeeper's in the U.S. that feed sugar syrup during a honey flow, although there could be a few bad apples out there. If the product is pure honey there is no legal need for a nutrition label either. The FDA does not allow anything but pure honey to be labeled as "Pure Honey". It is illegal for beekeepers to water down their honey with any product, unless there is a nutrition label that includes ingredients.
Honey has never been linked to a single infant death, however, early in the 20th century an infant diagnosed with Botulism had been fed honey within the incubation period for Botulism. Researchers then discovered that Botulism is a spore that will not grow in honey, but does not die either. Honey is deadly to bacteria and viruses however and is the reason why honey is now being used on Band-aids.
With the exception of just a couple of medications, it is illegal for beekeepers to apply during the time in which they are collecting surplus honey from the honey bees. The few that can be used when honey supers are on (which is where the bees store the honey that will be extracted later by the beekeeper) have been tested. The tests show that the medication, which is all-natural Formic Acid, vaporizes and flows out of the hive without contaminating any surplus honey, or honey that is food for the hive.
There is actually certified organic honey, although the constraints for honey labeled as such by the FDA are extremely high, including crops that are certified as organic within 30 miles of the hives, with no exceptions. Because of these constraints, and others, I know of no certified organic honey producers.
As for pesticides...the U.S. is the largest user of pesticides in the world, Mexico uses very little relatively speaking. However, pesticides, on all of the studies I have seen, do not seep into the nectar of flowering plants, but it is contained in very small amounts in the pollen of agricultural crops, or flowering plants very close to fields of crops that are sprayed. Neonicotinoids, or neonics have not been found in honey as far as I am aware, and only in extremely small amounts of pollen, with concentrations so low that it won't harm honey bees. There is an extremely polarized debate in this area, but all of the dozens of studies I have seen do not support evidence that Neonics contaminate pollen, rather, older pesticides that are used in conjunction with crop dusters are contained within pollen granules in heavier and more harmful concentrations.
If anyone is wondering, I am a beekeeper with over 20 years of experience, and a passion for both honey bees and beekeeping! Sorry for the long post, but I hope it was informative.
According to all the research I have read on the subject anytime honey is heated to above 120 degrees it begins to kill the enzymes. If you add hot water at 160 degrees I am assuming it will kill the enzymes. However, it is also duration dependent so if the temperature of the honey hits 160 degrees for a very short period of time it won't kill all of the enzymes, but I can't give you a specific amount of time. If for example you put honey in your hot tea, the enzymes would almost certainly be killed, however, honey is still a much preferable sweetener than any over the counter sugars, just without the enzymes. Even if the enzymes are killed honey contains other nutrients and beneficial properties. But if you want the enzymes, most research I have read say that eating a teaspoon of raw honey every day is beneficial for your health and according to some sources if it is local honey, allergies as well.
hello there 😊 I live in NY how can I find the honey with the comb inside is that better? and how can you tell good honeys from bad honey? like raw or organic? which is a good brand etc? do I have to travel far to get good honey like upstate?
+geremi Hi Geremi, pardon the reply but I'd rather give detailed advice than not enough.
I am not familiar with NY but what I would do is look up some local beekeepers, or a beekeeping club. Call them or a representative and they can give you a start on where to find a local beekeeper that makes comb honey. What you are referring to is actually called "Chunk Honey", I think which is where a chunk of comb honey (honey that is taken off the bees and cut into pieces that will fit into a jar) and then the rest of the jar is filled with honey.
You can also get comb honey which is simply a container that has honey still in the wax honeycomb (which can be cut up and put into jars for Comb Honey, or not). This is simply referred to as comb honey. It usually comes in three different ways; Ross Rounds which is a round plastic container that houses the comb, or it can just be a square plastic container where comb was simply cut to the right size and then put into the container for sale, or my favorite way is where wooden boxes house the comb honey. These wooden boxes were put into the hive and the bees made the wax, filled it with honey and then capped the honeycomb with more wax. The beekeeper just pulls out the boxes and sells them (actually Ross Rounds are also made in a similar way).
Buying comb honey is the most organic, raw honey that you can possibly buy, but, at least in my area it is very few people that actually buy it, so beekeepers just don't produce it like they used to.
Honey that is raw or organic has a few misnomers. First, bees can travel up to about twelve miles to search for nectar. That means that if there are crops that use pesticides, GMO's or Neonicotinoids within a 12 mile radius from the hives (24 mile diameter area) it is impossible to be registered with the USDA as an organic product. This also takes three years to get registered so if a jar of honey is labeled as "organic" but doesn't have the USDA label...ignore it. Some beekeepers say they're honey is organic if they don't use medications or pesticides in their hives, but the harsh truth is that no one can keep bees from visiting flowers that may have pesticides on them (think dandelions on a homeowners grass) and so no honey can be guaranteed to be "organic". If it is labeled by the USDA as organic it is proof that the beekeeper has gone through the hoops and tried as hard as possible to produce honey that is pesticide free.
Raw honey is also a misnomer, unless you actually do buy it in the comb. My definition of raw honey (and they're may be different definitions because it isn't legally defined) is that honey is raw if it was never heated above 120 degrees F, and was only strained, not pressure or micro-filtered. If honey is never heated to 120 degrees, and only strained, all of the enzymes, pollens and nutrients that you are looking for are still in the honey.
As far as where you can look to purchase, local honey is usually the best to look for first and the ideas I put out there above are a good place to start. Of course, I don't know what brands are good in NY because I am from Colorado.
Thanks for the question and sorry for the post that was probably entirely too long!
+Honey Bee Honey thank you sooo much for the detailed response iam gonna look into that.. thank you.. I wish I lived in Colorado 👍
Thank you for all the great and informative information. It put me on a hunt for local honey and I'm happy to have just one I'm excited to try. I'm disheartened to learn about what is really being sold under the guise of [honey] and I'm a big honey user. For the most part I only buy certain honey, but recently I purchased some from costco that said 'organic' raw honey (USDA) which my daughter told me about. Now I'm questioning if this is true honey or not and why that matters is because I bought a bunch of it. Anyway, great info... great vid to the gentleman that got us chatting about it, too. Thanks for your input [above]. :)
I had raw honey for the first time years ago and haven't been able to go back to the commercial brand. It's so much better than what I used to eat.
The difference in viscosity between the Costco one and the local one is most likely the result of different floral sources and heat treatment, and has nothing to do with dilution or purity. Just in case anyone was wondering. If you pasteurize honey it becomes runnier and stays that way longer without thickening or crystallizing. Also if the water content is over 18% to 21% bacteria is able to survive in it and it ferments, so you can't water down honey then sell it, it would ferment in the bottle and the gases released by the fermentation process would cause the bottle to explode, probably before you had a chance to sell much of it. So not likely. More likely they would dilute it with sugar syrup with a similar water content to honey. If it's labled as "Grade A" or "100% honey" it's probably pure, if it isn't it may have added syrup of some kind. If you buy raw honey it will crystallize sooner, you'll then have to heat it to get it to become fluid again, destroying the enzymes and ruining the health benefits raw honey has over the pasteurized stuff. You can eat it when it's crystallized, it just has a very different texture, it never actually spoils if it's pure.
Cinnamon and honey is a thousands of years old medication for sore throats in India. And also rubbing on wounds as well.
Btw the viscosity depends on the bee species and the flowers it has to work with.
I love raw honey. I've pretty much just decided to buy the Stakich brands of raw honey. It's thicker than butter. It's almost a solid. Filled with vitamins, pollen and enzymes. It's 100% unlike your average honey from a conventional grocery store. I don't think most people understand what honey looks like or tastes like in it's natural state
Ice Man um
my honey comes from costco.. i like honey crystalized
lmfao that sounds like whipped honey not sure if thats even the same heating honey destroys its enzymes
"Commercial Honey" NEEDS to be banned IMHO. ASAP.
+satellite964 Or just call it pancake syrup and not honey.
Yeah if it was banned there would be no honey lol or it would be veryyyyyyyy expensive. They should just labeled it as watered down and syrup added
+Ralf Nuggs i will export soon raw forest honey... its not only raw but also fresh.. wish me luck..
***** Exactly.
I hear you
some honeys can be dark, ale like colour, some can be amber yellow colour....it depends on the flower.....season.....geographical area
I try to buy from local vendors when I see them as oppised to the supermakets.
My raw honey heals cuts way better than triple antibiotics.Plus a nice small money making hobby.The Taste of real raw honey is amazing,compared to the crap you buy in stores.
it's because bacteria has an extremely hard time surviving in a sugar saturated environment, like a pachydermic jellyfish defending its territory.
Ben Dover must be talking about the gem Manuka honey
I will stick with neosporine.
Ben Dover I had cut my toe while riding a bike barefoot. Really fucked my toe up. A few weeks later it got severely infected and I was put on three different antibiotics. First amoxicillin. Then cephalexin. Then clindamycin. The clindamycin helped a bit. But after about a week it stopped helping and it was getting bad again. A bit fed up, I went ahead and tried First some sterilized manuka honey then when that ran out, some regular raw, unfiltered manuka honey. Both were...incredible. I'm not one of those people who relies on all natural remedies. But as someone in the science community I fear we are screwing ourselves with the over use of antibiotics. And I do think in the near future medicinal honey will be as normalized as antibiotics. A friend of mine who works in a hospital says it's often used in bandage dressings, and their burn unit frequently uses it. Apparently they have a gel form of it so I don't think it's as natural but either way the benefits are there I'm sure, if they're making a point to use it.
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Whatever.
It's absolutly sickening that corporations would dilute honey with water or false honey just to increase profit, don't you care about your consumers at all? when will people start caring about eachother instead of eight fold profit. Even just to do scientific research people want to know why if it's not beneficial to humans.just idiotic and sickening people are.
I agree we need to start growing our own food again
do you really thing big corporations have people at heart.. all they want is your money not your satisfaction, they don't even care about your wellness, they know what they add in their stuff might be very dangerous but ''hey it tastes good people will buy it who cares''.... things will never change it was always like that and will always be unfortuately.
+platinum10000 not nessedarily Theodore Roosevelt founded the FDA for food regulation. If more laws are placed into affect for consumption we could end this. Even today alcohol companies do not have to list what ingredients are in them simply because no laws were placed on it. We just need to start a movement
you are right, but you know there will always be monsanto and all those crazy companies, it's just an exemple but you know, there is light somewhere but it's very slim
platinum10000
Point taken. My Grandpappy was a beekeeper, and he brought us some of his honey every year. Amazing stuff!
A small correction if I may. Viscosity will vary even from hive to hive because the bees can feed on a variety of flowers with different sugar types.
When buying honey...Does anybody know HOW TO TELL IF THE HONEY (HAS BEEN PASTEURIZED)...OR NOT? Obviously high heat destroys key enzymes and important bioavailable molecules; thereby reducing the health benefits.
real honey no expiration date
Yurikha Eun Hae 100 year shelf date
Ohh yeah Your so very Genius to say That word I know That honey didnt get expired but when You say that word Logically Genius! ! !
Look As FINN What a nice person you are!
Real honey has no barcode.
Not inherently true. It has no expiration date so long as it is stored correctly. It can and will ferment if stored improperly or in non-ideal conditions.
Raw honey can be contaminated with a variety of things(pesticides to keep beetles and mites under control is a common one), and just like commercial honey can be watered down. Most but not all raw honey does crystallize eventually and it is usually thicker as the video says. Its much better to buy honey from a beekeeper in your local area, most of the farmers markets I have been too will have a honey vendor. If you can't find one, look online for your local beekeeping association and get some contacts. Raw honey is an awesome healthful sweetener and an excellent alternative to sugar in your coffee and cooking.
That isn't pollen you're seeing, least I wouldn't think. Its most likely beeswax.
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I just came across the video and also some of the comments below and would like to clarify a few things if I can.
The first thing is that all natural honey has different viscosities, colors, tastes and ratios of glucose to fructose. This is because honey is dependent on the nectar flows in the area in which the honey bees are foraging. This also means that from year to year, each batch of honey will be slightly to moderately different in color, taste, etc. Usually, with normal rainfall many of the same plants will bloom, in about the same proportions and at around the same times, so the honey is usually consistent from year to year. But, draught or above average rainfall will change that, as will a difference in forage such as a new farmer planting 40 acres of Alfalfa. In short, you cannot tell if honey is natural or commercial.
Honey imported from China is actually cut...or mixed with corn syrup, not pure corn syrup. Most of your cereal or snack bar products with honey in them, actually contain honey bought from China and as such, are not wholly honey.
Large honey producers in the U.S. and abroad filter honey through a high pressure filter that removes all pollen and crystallized honey particles. They also usually heat the honey to around 160 degrees, which pasteurizes it, but in the process destroys healthy enzymes contained in the honey and removes the pollen granules. It is still honey, but with none of the health benefits, such as healthy enzymes, and it will not help with allergies because of the absence of pollen granules (which your body treats similar to an immunization). Commercial producers do this so that the honey will not crystallize (granulate) on the store shelf. Incidentally, honey can be heated to 120 degrees without killing the enzymes or de-naturing the honey in any way. Also, commercial producers do not add any preservatives to honey, as there is no need for it. Honey has been found in Egyptian tombs, re-liquified and eaten. Honey, in it's natural form does not go bad, but if anything is added that raises the water content of honey, it will ferment, and can mold. If, in the U.S. honey is labeled as "Pure Honey" it is legally (not that there aren't cheaters out there) required to contain only honey, nothing else. I don't know of any beekeeper's in the U.S. that feed sugar syrup during a honey flow, although there could be a few bad apples out there. If the product is pure honey there is no legal need for a nutrition label either. The FDA does not allow anything but pure honey to be labeled as "Pure Honey". It is illegal for beekeepers to water down their honey with any product, unless there is a nutrition label that includes ingredients.
Honey has never been linked to a single infant death, however, early in the 20th century an infant diagnosed with Botulism had been fed honey within the incubation period for Botulism. Researchers then discovered that Botulism is a spore that will not grow in honey, but does not die either. Honey is deadly to bacteria and viruses however and is the reason why honey is now being used on Band-aids.
With the exception of just a couple of medications, it is illegal for beekeepers to apply during the time in which they are collecting surplus honey from the honey bees. The few that can be used when honey supers are on (which is where the bees store the honey that will be extracted later by the beekeeper) have been tested. The tests show that the medication, which is all-natural Formic Acid, vaporizes and flows out of the hive without contaminating any surplus honey, or honey that is food for the hive.
There is actually certified organic honey, although the constraints for honey labeled as such by the FDA are extremely high, including crops that are certified as organic within 30 miles of the hives, with no exceptions. Because of these constraints, and others, I know of no certified organic honey producers.
As for pesticides...the U.S. is the largest user of pesticides in the world, Mexico uses very little relatively speaking. However, pesticides, on all of the studies I have seen, do not seep into the nectar of flowering plants, but it is contained in very small amounts in the pollen of agricultural crops, or flowering plants very close to fields of crops that are sprayed. Neonicotinoids, or neonics have not been found in honey as far as I am aware, and only in extremely small amounts of pollen, with concentrations so low that it won't harm honey bees. There is an extremely polarized debate in this area, but all of the dozens of studies I have seen do not support evidence that Neonics contaminate pollen, rather, older pesticides that are used in conjunction with crop dusters are contained within pollen granules in heavier and more harmful concentrations.
If anyone is wondering, I am a beekeeper with over 20 years of experience, and a passion for both honey bees and beekeeping! Sorry for the long post, but I hope it was informative.
Exactly, I hear people try and talk about medication all the time, and they're always way off. The amount of medication that you're allowed to have in packed honey prepared for the consumer is so low that nobody would be harmed by it, ever.
I always laugh at the 'organic' and 'natural' brand honey. I had a back-yard bee keeper within our area try to sell 'organic' honey in our local farmers market. Our bees are within flying distance of each other, and I know for a fact that the farmer across the road from his hives isn't an "organic" farmer. Shady bee keepers try to get around the 'organic' labeling with buzz words and a bunch of other laughable things. If only their customers knew that some of those particularly shady hobby guys that do that stuff often come to the bigger outfits to buy honey when they run out in the middle of the winter lol.
I have bees in my backyard and once friends have tasted it they will never buy it from the store. Zero pesticides and I never feed them. Even if you buy organic honey they can still feed the bees corn syrup which alters the flavor dramatically. By the way, they dilute store bought with corn syrup, water would cause it to crystallize.
Lisa Thibodeau How would I purchase from you?
Same. Do you sell?
please sell me someeee
Water doesn't cause it to crystalize. Water causes it to ferment due to the yeasts in the honey. Honey should be 17-18% water.
For everybody who "knows" what raw honey looks like, you can't tell what raw honey looks like. The color of any honey is dependent on what the bees see foraging on. Buckwheat honey is real dark almost black and has a strong taste. Clover honey is much lighter in color and taste. All honey will crystallize, it's what honey does. Some do it faster than others. Cotton honey crystallizes almost immediately. There is NO test that you can do at home (unless you're some sort of geek with a science lab at home) to prove one way or the other if it's raw or not. Some honey has a bad taste like goldenrod (yuck) so taste differs. This guy is right. KNOW YOUR BEEKEEPER
J Rivera ....
Pure Honey is THICKER than Other ones...THAT'S how you can SEE if it's Pure. The way I know this, is because I grew up in a farm and used to Collect Honey, straight from the Hive....to me, the Best Honey is right off the Comb!!
Bull shit. You get a microscope and look for pollen, If there is pollen in the "honey" then it's for sure honey. Pollen is too expensive to add to corn syrup to try and fool the microscope. You can tell which pollen is which as well so if you're buying clover honey it'd better have some clover pollen in it. YOU CAN TELL.
Mike Ries Not inherently true. There are technologies to work around that entirely for companies that want to be shady as fuck.
Also, pollen is not expensive, not in bulk at least.
One exception: sage honey won't crystallize.
I read bees do not get nectar from roses, only pollen. It gets so confusing when you trying to plant nectar producing flowers.
I fed too much sugar water before winter. I think I'm going to need to extract the sugar water before the flow starts so I can get real honey not funny honey. I wish could tell when frames were actually honey, some look like they could be my fall flow. But I don't want to risk it. So I'll extract and feed it back to them in the summer so I can get pure honey.
I'd much rather raise my own bees, then I know 100% where my honey came from. Any commercial honey produced in the US may have a minimal of 51% honey and 49% corn syrup is what the FDA allows. At least that's what was said in beekeeping class.
Nicole - how's the honey business going??
Scabobble rip 😢
Make sure to only feed them food they require in their diet. You're going to have to feed them pure naturals otherwise the bees will make false honey because of the additives.
Also, get bees from around your place or somewhere off city so the honey can be more natural and unfiltered.
There are fake flowers outside your honey wont be that natural.
Nicole - ...
if you want Pure Honey...lol for a Brand called
"Mountain Express"...it is Amazing!!!
Tests of Costco honey show its as fake as the rest of the fakes. Find a beekeeper, pay the price, end of story.
Is raw honey like a block ok?
Karla Aguirre you mean crystallized honey?
So I feed my bees marijuana flowers, best honey ever! And the bees are mellow all the time. They seem to be out foraging more than other bees I've kept.
Do you sell cannabis?
Do you sell bees?
Pot head 😒
I just.....alright I ain't gonna lie I wanna try some of that honey.
smoking cause cancer.
I absolutely love honey and years ago found out from a documentary about bees and honey. I tried buying local real honey from farmers market and so on but it was really expensive and we didn't always have the kind of money so I bought honey from Costco and other places thinking it's fine even though it's in big stores. It's so upsetting to think I'm trying with what I got $$$ which isn't always a lot and to be deceived 😧 makes it worse. Thanks for taking the time and sharing
Just pay The money.
My question is about the Kirkland RAW ORGANIC honey in the bear bottle. Says from Brazil, ingredients are only raw honey, and it doesn’t seem to bubble like the clover Kirkland honey. So my question is it reliable? I know I should be using local honey now, but when I bought it I thought if it says it is it must be. I’m more aware now of labels, but I’m still confused on things like this. Because I’ve recently learned most honey is cut and not always listed on the ingredients.
Can someone explain to me why this Raw Honey is orange colored, and liquid, whereas the beige colored raw honey isn't liquid? What did they do to it? Thanks
I definitely try to go to my farmer's market for honey instead of buying commercial brand honey. There's also a syrup taste in commercial brand honey that im not a fan of.
have you ever tried madhava pure and raw honey
Just purchased my first jar of raw honey in Somerset 🇬🇧. Great local taste . Will definitely try all the different flavours.
i live in a small town in southern greece ,i get honey not from the super market but from local bee keepers ,there are different kinds of colours and viscosity and aromas depending on where the bees where parked, if they were near citrus trees the honey will not be thick or dark it will be shitty now on the other hand if they were in the mountains where they forged off of pine trees ,thyme and mountain tea the honey will be thick and brown you could stand up the tea spoon in the can ,real thick honey, one time i ran out of honey and bought honey from the supermarket it just happened to be Argentina honey and it was horribly thin and tasted like sugar,my bad. and one more secret to all who don't know ,if the honey doesn't crystalize its not pure honey
Important correction RE: his statement that honey is made from pollen. Honey is made primarily from nectar, not pollen. Any pollen present in the finished honey is incidental and in very low (negligible) quantities.
May I ask where to get Raw Honey? I live in Florida!
Is simply nature organic wildflower honey good ?
Also, pollen adds to the nutritional value.
Good information. I always thot, honey has to be hndled with a wooden spoon? I feel misled. Which is which? Now. Can anyone clarify. Thnk you.
The honey comb is good to eat. Great for allergies. Hard to find now.
Most areas have some sort of bee keeping network. I would Google your area to see whom can be contacted and is interested in selling you the honey comb.
Personally I like the slightly fermented honey from the combs the bees seem to forget about.
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You might find some at your local Asian grocery. Don't know if the honey is authentic, but the comb within definitely is.
What is the best raw honey out on the market? I always assumed that raw honey tastes a bit bitter because of raw definition by itself. I just hope it's safe to use for cosmetic purposes and enhancing women feminity.
at time 3:12 and on, this is not a fair viscosity test. The best measure is going to be done using a refractometer to test the brix. Secondly, local raw honey will most always be of a better raw quality. The buyer should be aware that honey from BIG commercial producers is usually a blended variety to provide product consistency. If you are concerned about getting the best honey, ask a local producer where their apiary is located so you know best where the honey is produced. Today, many herbalists will not consider a product to be raw and unfiltered honey unless it has small quantities of dissolved pollen within the product. This is found to be extremely beneficial to local seasonal pollen allergic people. BUT NEVER GIVE POLLEN TO A CHILD UNDER 1 YEAR OLD.
Do you know why Manuka honey is so expensive? Compare to raw honey, is Manuka honey that much better?? Thanks
Like the video, just wanted to point out that pollen and nectar are separate things. They are stored separately in the hive. There are also other things stored separately like royal jelly. These things are sometimes extracted separately and in most cases sold or used for their different purposes. Some bee keepers just put everything in a centrifuge and mix it all together and call it raw honey, some separate it and call it raw honey or just plain honey. The difference is pasteurization, the heating of the honey that kills the probiotic properties in it and it is rendered and filtered as that brown or somewhat clear filtered stuff that is known by most folks ad honey. Raw honey is just what it says raw or uncooked honey just like raw meat or veggies. Personally I think it should be noted on raw honey if it contains pollen and royal jelly but that I guess is too much to ask for from the corporate boot licking FDA...
Actually pure honey contains natural pollen. 1. pollen fall from the antheres of the blossom in the nectar (gravitation, wind, wiggling bees etc.), 2. pollen fall in the open nectar cells because pollen stick to the bees (in the hive), 3. you are right: beekeeper use centrifuges and eventually mix pollen cells and honey cells sometimes.
Not so much they are very good housekeepers, everything in its place... Also like I said pollen is stored separate by the bees. Many beekeepers don't mix the pollen they separate it before using the centrifuge and sell it as pollen for health food.
What about Kirkland raw honey?
raw honey is in a solid state. ask your local bee farmer how they process their honey. you will be surprised not all local honey is really local.
My uncle extract honey and it's liquid, but it crystalizes very fast.
it depends on the concentration of glucose. Acacia honey for example, can take years to crystalize.
I'm a first year 🐝 keeper, thanks for informing people
Can you shake them with a little but of water and see if you get hexagons?
Honey and lemon is also known to be a health beneficial medicine too. My mum used to give it to me a lot while I had an undiagnosed but also rare cancer.
The size of them honey bottles,makes a difference on how that bubble travels ,,,slow or fast, I think it's not accurate for quality testing on raw honey or not.
Manukkande no pls
3:30 the bigger bottle had a bigger bubble, so naturally a bigger bubble will produce more force and travel through the honey more quickly
For a sore throat, I've repetitively seen to chew propolis, which is resins bees collect to seal and glue inside parts. I haven't needed to use it, but, if u have a sore throat, check with a local beekeeper to get bee glue or propolis. It might matter if it's recently gathered as old propolis can be in a hive forever. Whether it matters I do not know as I've been fortunate not to have had a sore throat in decades and not interested in having one either. If I did, I might gargle with Ambesol. Yet if I had fresh propolis, I'd try it. A hive is actually sterile.
how come they don't sell honey with the comb any more? use to see it in large jars but never anymore. so why???
Loretta Tay!or right I was looking for the same thing
No way to compare with like this method, but yes if you use same amount honey in same bottle. How can you tell the right result by you comparing one small bottle with a bigger bottle, it's not right because of honey will heavier in the bigger bottle and that's why the air bubble traveled faster.
I love honey. I currently have almost 20 pounds of it.
An Ayurvedic doctor recommended honey, cinnamon and ginger. I take a tablespoon of that every day.
I love mead (honey wine)
Honey is a good sweetner
Fantastic on skin injuries and oh my God awesome on burns
CHINA! ... will pass in corn syrup and export it as 'honey'. As long as we buy it, they'll ship it to us. 😜
Do Chinese people have conscience at all? I mean fake rice fake eggs fake everything ! And then I saw the rich Chinese business men's kids taking over Vancouver Canada and one of them was asked why live in Vancouver not China ? Then she said she wants fresh air and no fresh air in China...
China is also flooding the world with their pesticide garlic that is produced by forced prison labour. I saw a documentary where someone asked the Chinese rice grower if eats his own product and he said no he imports his rice from overseas because his product is polluted. So the farmer is willing to sell the rice to others even though he knows it's dodgy. People have to be willing to spend a little more and support their local producers.
sounds like the gmo corn soy farmers in usa.
Chinese honey is banned from the USA. They send to Brazil, relabel and ship to the USA. Circumventing the import ban.
You are 100% right. They sell plastic rice and plastic hardboiled eggs to people in China and it kills people but the government doesn't regulate quality control at all.
If bees get pollen from marijuana will you get high consuming it?
Thanks for the review.
They chose a really funny label on the Kirkland honey, honey bees can't get nectar out of red clover. Any other color clover has nectar that the bees can collect. I planted Crimson Clover which is redder and has an elongated flower.
what if you don't anything sweet? What else can you mix with milk?
how do you know that honey is from your local honey bee keeper? last time i checked bee keepers dont have thier own lables amd neatly filled bottles
If the beekeeper sells his honey to a larger distributor, they do not fill jars or have to have their own label. Many beekeepers that produce and sell their own honey to the public are required to fill their own jars and label them. There are several regulations concerning what must be on the label. Do not think that because the label is not hand written that the beekeeper is not selling his own honey. It is much faster and very much more convenient to purchase the pre-printed labels and to apply them to the jars. You know the honey is from your local beekeeper because you should know him or her as a person and know you can or cannot trust him or her. Most beekeepers are hard working and would strongly resent the implication that their product was not produced by themselves, or that their product was adulterated in any way. That said, I am sure that there is at least one bad apple in every barrel of apples. That is true whatever the occupation. Get to know your local beekeeper as a person, instead of just a vendor of honey. Most beekeepers are willing to talk to you about their honey and are proud to share their experiences and knowledge about bees and honey with you.
Thank you very helpful. I'm using Labonte Natural Organic Honey, but not sure if it's actually that. :( I would rather pay more and get the real deal and I don't think this is it.
Support your local farmers.
They will give you something good.
Honey is a great sweetener for your coffee and tea...
Well to be fair, you need to test viscosity of the honey via an air bubble with similar shaped and sized containers.. especially in terms of the containers width..
So is the Costco clover honey no good?
viscosity varies by area, type of hives, time of harvest, rainy or summer,type of harvesting, flower in that area, altitude etc .so viscosity is not big thing.i receive honey directly from gatherers of mountain....thats y im saying
does it help clear your eyes?
How can we get local raw honey?
Is eating Honey Nut Cheerios the same as eating raw honey? That friendly cartoon bee in the commercial makes me feel like it is.
Hi! What is it the little what is the name and where is bay?
can u check the so called organic honey from stores?. i did a check with one called oraginc wild flower honey from brazil. i did the test. it failed. i did notice they added to. and when i added it to filtered water. it had a chemical smell to it.
Gonna look for some authentic raw honey at my local farmer’s market. I have walked by a stand that sells it.
My mom just gets honey from actually farms, it has all the wax and honeycomb in it.
Parrish Colquitt yes because I’m a wee little child who acts older than I actually am so yes my mom does it
I would like to know do people that sell honey add clear corn syrup??
Have you tried the topanga honey
Density of Honey depends on several factors -
1. The species of the Bee
2. The Types of Flowers it collected from
3. The season
We have to Bee-Home in my house. There is no way you can tell difference until it is tested in a laboratory.
I always buy local honey and almost all of them are very thick some of them even had some beeswax and some a little bit grainy in consistency ... and i agrre honey are very healthy...
but if your firs example is real raw honey how it can be packed in this tube if real honey has to crystalize at some point , after 6 months it will become solid ...
Sometimes raw honey isn't that viscous :)
I thought raw honey had more of a solid state?
It does
CP Da Boi Wonda I'm a backyard beekeeper @BushBoysBeehives & I bottle my honey by hand twice a month so it is always fresh & liquid. Depending on the variety it takes 6-12mos to solidify.
Last year's crop crystallized pretty quickly. Had an average of 15% moisture content. The fall goldenrod crop crystallized really fast. This year will be different. No way we have another 2017 for a long long time. It was a great year. Huge crop.
viscosity of the honey varies depending how old honey is , fresh just pumped honey is hot and liquidy, the older the honey gets the thicker it gets to the point it will crystalize , also if you have allergies you have to buy/consume honey from the area you live in ,as you exposed to pollen in ur area from local trees/plants , and you need honey from same place for best results , as honey will have that pollen and all the enzymes , my dad lives few miles from my house we both have hives , but honey differs alot mine is darker and thicker, my dad's much lighter and tastes way different , some seasons we have honey purple/green/redish in collor and they all taste differently depending on the time we harvest honey. if you want real honey buy local honey , everything at the store has been boiled and purified to meet FDA. B. S
I always buy honey from local bee keepers. Simply look up bee associations and buy it from nearest keeper. It was known in Egyption times that it was excellent for many ailments. Often found next to mummies it can still be eaten 2000 years later!
I’m trying LOCAL HIVE (L.R.Rice) Southern California honey..
it’s 8.99 at the local supermarket..
if you think that’s expensive , 3.5 grams of legal marijuana can cost 40-60 dollars..
anyways, I’ll let you guys know how the honey goes.. honey is a better alternative for licking off a persons body.. rather than oils lubes and such..
In the UK they do sell raw honey but its kinda expensive like £2.99
Met a guy selling honey at a Swap shop and the man really went off after I told him I bought honeycomb at Costco with him claiming it was China made fake. How does one fake capped comb?
How do I get honey from your area, and what is the name of the brand?
Come here in the PH, you can find RAW unprocessed honey put inside alcohol bottles it even has some honeycomb and sometimes actual bees in it. Very delicious and quite cheap.
Thickness Varies and so does color Honey from Commercial sources are “Slop fed” instead of Sugar water or natural Feeding that bees get Commercial Sources use Corn syrup to feed the bees...
I just got it berryhill and it says it’s tru source certified
That organic honey is too thick but the one which i got from forest which is not a bottled one, it was not this thick but it passed in water test. It not at all dissolved in honey.
My Mom use to give me honey since i was 12 years. I am using Honey since that era. I gurreenteed you i never face any routine headache or any other problems like (constipation, eye sight, low energy etc etc etc. I used to take 1 Tsp of "Pure Organic Black Seed
hii! we just bought 2 of those big bottles of Kirkland's honey last June, and I've been taking it every morning until now. I'm afraid it did nothing to my body knowing its commercially made :(( we intend to cure my allergies.
its 1,000 pesos per bottle tho
I have bought raw honey from some local farms and I do prefer it over the store bought . there is a place in temple Texas that makes and sells honey and it is also sold in the local stores if you look on the label you can see there name. the problem with most raw road side honey is the cost. the last time I bought some near Cleveland Texas it was $6.50 for a small container. Pretty high I believe.
that would be highway robbery
Well I have been absolutely sick over the honey I bought .Suppose to be a reputable honey source .My quart failed every test known .I can read words on paper on the other side right through the jar ! The worst part is there is so much water content I don't have to stir it to dissolve.Pours like water .And the foam is horrible .
Sounds like you got some of the fake Chinese honey. Some companies import Chinese honey but don't label it as Chinese honey.
does your local honey store have a website?
Can you suggest the name and the link from where i can buy tgt raw honey
do you live near kirkland?
I am a honey producer. I have 9 hives and will be expending to 20 this year (2020). Honey should have a water content of no more than 18%. The bees evaporate it down to this level to prevent fermentation in the comb. For "commercial" honey they dilute it down with water. This increases the water content beyond the fermentation limit. To prevent fermentation they heat it to kill any yeast spores. This also destroys the honey's health-giving enzymes and nutrients. The "honey" can be further diluted with sugar-syrup and colour adjusted with colourants. Flavouring can also be added. Some of the fake "honey" coming out of China, has no honey in it at all. Supermarkets often sell what they call "Honey" that is below the cost of production of real honey. As they are taking a hefty mark-up, the cost of whatever is in the bottle must be very low indeed. There is no way that it can be pure undiluted honey. It has to be fake or heavily adulterated. "You get you pay for" is very true in the case of honey. Stay safe. Buy local raw honey. You will not regret it.
In this particular scenario "tainted" and "tinted" can be used interchangeably.
Just shocking what they try to fob off as honey.
I bought raw honey with pollen and within minutes felt an allergic reaction. If you're allergic to pollen in the air, I would think you would be allergic to raw honey, but your video says otherwise. I want to eat raw honey but now hesitant. Thoughts?
SuperJoeitall if you had an allergic reaction before it is better not to risk it
ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND RAW HONEY PLEASER?
how does this help with allergies? I am allergic to every thing ie: ragweed,pollen,dust etc..will this help? and if I get raw honey vs organic does that matter as well?
+geremi Raw honey is best because it contains the pollen. Whatever reaction between the honey and the pollen alters your body's response to it when exposed to just the pollen. There's been studies on it, but that's the gist of it.
+SuperChocoNuttyFudgy thanks 👍👍I have to try it bc I think iam getting allergic to my baby's my cats 😢😢
+geremi Raw honey does not help with allergies. It's a marketing strategy. The mechanism posited by marketers are that eating honey teaches your body to tolerate and not launch an immune response about pollen, which has much truth in it; this is actually how allergy shots work. However, raw honey and local honey will not help you for two reasons:
1) When you eat raw local honey, you are eating pollen from plants that flowered months ago, not the ones causing allergies now, but more importantly
2) The pollen that causes allergies are not found in honey. Grasses and trees are the main offenders that cause seasonal allergies, but these do not require pollination by bees, since they evolved to simply dump as much pollen into the air as possible and let the wind spread it around. Pollen from the flowers that bees visit evolved to need bees to pick up and transfer their pollen. Because of this, these flowers produce a sticky pollen that doesn't blow around easily and very tiny quantities of it. The pollen you inhale when you take a breath outside contains almost none of this.
There are tons of studies that have demonstrated no immune boosting effects of raw honey. Most studies that find that raw honey prevents allergies are funded by the corporations that promote and sell raw honey. Independent scientists have never found this correlation. I can source if needed!
+Nicholas Morante You have no idea what you're saying! We are beekeepers, and sell at the local markets. Just yesterday a lady came to my door and told me how she is off of medication now thanks to raw honey. Did you make up this yarn yourself ^ , or did you get it from a source? I'd like to see it.
+geremi Do your own research, Nicholas is leading you astray. I am a firm believer in the benefits of raw honey. Honey is a healer, and has been helping people since the Egyptian times at least, if not farther back in history.
I have the imported kind of honey in my home right now, and I believe I've only ever tasted this kind of honey. It kind of grosses me out and it's made me a bit nauseous in the past. That being said, I want to like honey. It looks like it tastes good, especially the honeycombs. Does anyone know if local honey, generally speaking, tends to taste different (or better, in your opinion) from the kind of generic/internationally-sourced honey? I want another healthy snack option and opinions would be helpful. :)
Edit: Oops, he talked about this in the video. Yeah, my honey tastes like farts with a hint of sugar. It's disgusting. I'd still like to hear from others on this, though, if anyone is up for it.
Throw it away.
the block away honey does not appear as my usual raw honey which appears non clear and like lard.