Honey actually has little nutritional benefit, but beats table sugar if you need a sweetener.
I don't know where you're getting these ridiculous fables, but that's all they are.
Please folks let's not go off on some silly "evil American corporations feeding us poison" alt-med tangent...it was just an interesting tidbit of trivia IMO.
"That is the question raised in an eye-opening
new study published by Food Safety News. The group’s food scientists say that over three quarters of the honey sold in American supermarkets and drug stores may not be what the bees created"
These highly nutritious grains (pollen) are frequently filtered out of the final product leaving no way to determine whether it is really honey, or a highly processed syrup (hfcs) which bears that name(honey).
U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules state that any product that contains no pollen cannot be called honey.
But the understaffed FDA isn’t checking.
Bryant’s results were astonishing: virtually all drug store honey and small individually packaged honey served up in fast food outlets does not contain pollen, and 76 percent of the amber stuff sold in America’s leading supermarket chains is likewise devoid of this telltale evidence of its origins, and therefore does not qualify as honey
"the unregulated liquid is often heavily adulterated with high fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners, as well as being tainted with chloramphenicol, heavy-metal toxins and a witches brew of agro-chemicals, including some illegal animal antibiotics, which are fatal to a small percentage of the population."
"In an effort unveiled at the 2011 North American Beekeeping Conference in Galveston in January, a group called
True Source Honey announced a voluntary certification program for producers and distributors who are able to prove that their honey comes from legal and legitimate sources. They are also lobbying the FDA to take more effective measures in strictly defining honey and regulating its sale.
Until that happens, better to stick with certified organic and raw honey, which is likely to be closer to what the bees have so generously provided us."
Most Store Bought Honey Isn't Honey According to the FDA | HuffPost
