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Does anybody know a reliable test to show whether Honey is fake or not?

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Es_1a

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In case you didn't hear, there was news of a massive, massive scandal regarding honey being faked using sugar syrups, including the dreaded high-fructose variations: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/mar/26/uk-honey-fails-authenticity-test

I really wish to try giving eating honey in place of ordinary sugars and sweetners a try, especially based on news from this very site that consuming honey can help to improve cardiometabolic risks

Problem then is finding a way or means to know if honey is even real. I imagine the last thing people want is to think they're getting the potentially very nourihsing benefit of honey only to find they may as well be eating pure sugar by the sppon full because it's fake.
 
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I’ve no idea, I don’t buy honey as it raises my BG, but if you like to use honey I suppose buying locally made from a small producer rather than off the shelf honey would just about rule out this problem.

My friend keeps bees and sells her own honey on a stall outside her gate - she makes a small fortune
 
Es_1a said:
In case you didn't hear, there was a news of a massive, massive sc andal regaridng honey being faked, using sugar syrups, including the dreaded high-fructose variations: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/mar/26/uk-honey-fails-authenticity-test

I really wish to try giving eating honey in place of ordinary sugars and sweetners a try, especially base don news form this very site that consuming honey can help to improve cardiometabolic risks

Problem then is finding a way or means to know if honey is even real. I imagine the last thing people want is to think they're getting the potentially very nourihsing benefit of honey only to find they may as well be eating pure sugar by the sppon full because it's fake.
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I think it would take a lab analysis to show what was actually in the jar.
What nourishment do you think there is in honey that other high sugar syrups would not provide?
 
Resurgam said:
I think it would take a lab analysis to show what was actually in the jar.
What nourishment do you think there is in honey that other high sugar syrups would not provide?
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Yes, I came across those labs too who conduct pollen analysis and so on. Not sure how much they'd charge a retail user but was thinking about a practical means to test thing out at home before thinking abkut going down that root.
 
I hope I can post this in here.

A friend of mine keeps bees and said that untreated harvested honey is completely different from shop honey.

Is “real” honey straight from the hive, off of the honeycomb safe for T2 diabetes or am I just wishing hopefully? :)

JoMar
 
I wouldn’t use the word safe or unsafe regarding any food, but I think you may be wishing hopefully, wherever it comes from and however it’s treated it’s still pure sugar, but to put it into context eating it off a spoon is very different from using a teaspoon of it in a recipe for four people say.

I don’t think it’s an ideal food for anyone with T2, I suppose you could try it and test before and after to see what it does to your BG levels, personally I wouldn’t use it
 
lovinglife said:
I wouldn’t use the word safe or unsafe regarding any food, but I think you may be wishing hopefully, wherever it comes from and however it’s treated it’s still pure sugar, but to put it into context eating it off a spoon is very different from using a teaspoon of it in a recipe for four people say.

I don’t think it’s an ideal food for anyone with T2, I suppose you could try it and test before and after to see what it does to your BG levels, personally I wouldn’t use it
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Thank you! I appreciate your guidance.

JoMar (always learning)
 
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