Honey is one of my favorite foods of all time. I put it on EVERYTHING. If you saw how I ate you would instantly think of the kid movie Elf and proclaim me as his relative. I put honey on pasta, sandwiches, and eggs. Not to mention I lighten my hair with raw honey and wash my body with it as well. I love honey and it's amazing benefits for my health so when I heard about the honey epidemic I was appaled.
haha yep...that's me ;p
I found out today that the honey being sold in supermarkets is not real and they do not contain any pollen. Here is what I read:
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
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 (truth-theory para 1-5).
Here is a video of my favorite honey called Manuka Honey:
Why raw honey is THE BOMB:
Buy your healthy raw honey here...you won't regret it!
http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/organic_raw_honey.htm
Stay groovy and eat your honey!
Sincerely,
Radical Rose
http://radicalrose.wordpress.com
Resources:
http://truththeory.com/2012/07/30/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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