{"id":9581,"date":"2011-12-08T05:54:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T10:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2011-12-08T16:51:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:51:16","slug":"food-safety-news-just-because-the-label-says-honey-doesnt-mean-a-bee-would-eat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/12\/food-safety-news-just-because-the-label-says-honey-doesnt-mean-a-bee-would-eat-it","title":{"rendered":"Food Safety News: Just because the label says “Honey” doesn’t mean a bee would eat it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because it says \u201choney\u201d on the label doesn\u2019t mean that a bee would have anything to do with it.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s grocery shelves are full of imported honey that is little more than sugar gel \u2013 and lacks many of the key elements of what makes honey the stuff that honeybees feed their kids \u2013 a beehive\u2019s larvae.<\/p>\n

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Just because it's labeled "honey" doesn't mean it is honey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For years, honey has been believed to provide nature\u2019s own immunotherapy. In normal immunotherapy, the allergic person is exposed to minute amount of the allergy-causing protein, usually in the form of an injection. The idea is that if a person is allergic to pollen, then some of the allergy-causing proteins will be in the honey.<\/p>\n

If you eat local, raw honey everyday, you expose yourself to a small amount of the local pollens and this is supposed to sensitize you to that pollen’s proteins.<\/p>\n

However, imported honey \u2013 such as fromChinaorIndia\u2013 has no local pollen. And according to a recent study, often imported honey has no pollen at all \u2013 and may be packed with pollutants and antibiotics.<\/p>\n

In other words, all the good stuff has been filtered out, leaving only bad stuff plus sugar.<\/p>\n

TexasA&MUniversityprofessor Vaughn Bryant is the nation\u2019s premier melissopalynologist \u2013 someone who studies sweet pollens. Food and Safety News asked him to look into reports that commercial honey manufacturers are taking all of the pollen out of their honey.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you take the pollen out, you don\u2019t know two things: The first thing you do not know is where the honey was produced, and the<\/p>\n

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