(NaturalNews) Just because those cute little bear-shaped bottles at the grocery
store say "honey" on them does not necessarily mean that they actually contain
honey. A comprehensive investigation conducted by Food Safety News (FSN)
has found that the vast majority of so-called honey products sold at grocery
stores, big box stores, drug stores, and restaurants do not contain any pollen,
which means they are not real honey.
For the investigation, Vaughn Bryant, one of the nation's leading
melissopalynologists, or experts in identifying pollen in honey, and director of
the Palynology Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University, evaluated more
than 60 products labeled as "honey" that had been purchased by FSN from ten
states and the District of Columbia.
Bryant found that 76 percent of "honey" samples purchased from major grocery
store chains like Kroger and Safeway, and 77 percent of samples purchased
from big box chains like Sam's Club and Wal-Mart, did not contain any pollen.
Even worse were "honey" samples taken from drug stores like Walgreens and
CVS, and fast food restaurants like McDonald's and KFC, 100 percent of which
were found to contain not a trace of pollen.
The full FSN report with a list of all the pollen-less "honey" brands can be
accessed here:
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/...
So what is all this phony honey made of? It is difficult to say for sure, as pollen
is the key to verifying that honey is real. According to FSN, much of this
imposter honey is more likely being secretly imported from China, and may
even be contaminated with antibiotic drugs and other foreign materials.
Most conventional honey products have been illegally ultra-filtered to hide their
true nature
According to FSN, the lack of pollen in most conventional "honey" products is
due to these products having been ultra-filtered. This means that they have
been intensely heated, forced through extremely tiny filters, and potentially
even watered down or adulterated in some way prior to hitting store shelves.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) holds the position that any
so-called honey products that have been ultra-filtered are not actually honey.
But the agency refuses to do anything to stop this influx of illegitimate "honey"
from flooding the North American market. It also continues to stonewall all
petitions to establish a national regulatory standard for verifying the integrity of
honey.
Ultra-filtering eliminates and destroys all medicinal properties of honey
Assuming that there is any real honey at all in the phony honey products tested
by FSN, the removal of pollen and other delicate materials via ultra-filtering
renders them medicinally dead. Raw honey is a health-promoting food that can
help alleviate stomach problems, anemia, allergies, and other health conditions.
Ultra-filtered honey is nothing more than a health-destroying processed sugar
in the same vein as white table sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
The good news is that all of the honey products FSN tested from farmers
markets, food cooperatives, and "natural" stores like Trader Joe's and Whole
Foods, were found to contain pollen and a full array of antioxidants and other
nutrients. Local beekeepers are another great source of obtaining raw,
unprocessed, real honey.
Be sure to read the entire FSN report at:
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/...
Shock finding: More than 75 percent of all
'honey' sold in grocery stores contains no
honey at all, by definition (Updated)
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