This prompted Food Safety News to test more than 60 different samples of store bought honey for pollen. If the liquid gold doesn’t contain pollen, it isn’t honey. In fact, they’re almost guaranteed to be fake.Īccording to the FDA (as well as the food safety divisions of the World Health Organization and the European Commission), the one test that authenticates honey is the presence of pollen. But those rows and rows of non-local honey from major distributors found in the supermarket? Those aren’t safe. According to my recent research, that means I’m safe. The other is from a farm in the town next door. My favorite is from a little old lady who keeps bees just a few miles from me. Thankfully, I always buy mine from one of two local farms. But I didn’t know that the vast majority of the major labels of honey sold in the U.S. Almost all of them fessed up to being what they are - honey-flavored corn syrup. That’s because I read the ingredients label. Oh, I’d known about the fake “honey” they serve in single-serving packets at restaurants and cafeterias. After my post revealing the shocking truth about olive oil adulteration, I received a number of outraged comments along the lines of this one: “Is nothing sacred? First honey, and now this?!!!”
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