That gourmet luxury blend...

Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 936 points – 4 months ago

I was permanently banned from the Reddit sub without recourse for posting this despite not breaking any rules. I'm slowly making the migration over thanks to such encouragement.

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What in the hell? You think this is ok? A honey blend implies a blend of.....wait for it..... different HONEY.

Not a blend of super cheap and super unhealthy syrup.

It seems not to be as well known as I thought, but most commercial honey sold in the US is not actually honey:

But the honey industry is hiding a secret. There’s a high chance that your store-bought honey is fake. While fake honey usually includes some amount of real honey, it is often mixed with other corn, rice, or sugar cane syrup to reduce its cost. These fillers are far cheaper than raw honey and are used to produce more honey, quicker. In fact, up to 76% of honey sold in the US is not really honey, at least not entirely.

There were a bunch of stories about this several years ago after a minor controversy, but it didn’t stay in the news long, so I guess it fell out of public consciousness.

If you want real honey, you’ll want to buy from small, local dealers.

If it was a bunch of different honeys they would have listed the types on the front of the bottle, I'm sure. The word "Texas" heavily implies that it's made out of something terrible.

I have news for you if you think there is a health difference between a teaspoon of corn syrup and a teaspoon of honey. They are both packed full of sugar

You are being downvoted but HFCS and honey are almost exactly chemically identical. They have to inspect honey farms to make sure it comes from bees since looking at the final product you can’t tell the difference.

Yeah they are both concentrated sugar extracts. Just because one is made by bees doesn't make it suddenly not a heaping tablespoon of sugar you've just ingested. I eat plenty of honey and molasses but I don't lie to myself and claim that they are any healthier than corn syrup or simple syrup. They are all just super concentrated fructose and glucose solutions.

I thought the "benefits" to honey were kinda more for kids >1 so they can be exposed to different types of pollen. I dunno if it actually helps with immunity to allergies in the same way, but iirc it's similar with peanuts. Kids exposed to them young are much less likely to develop allergies to them

That makes sense at first glance, but it's not true when you think about it for a bit. People have allergic reactto grasses and trees that broadcast spawn their pollen all over the place. Bees collect nectar from flowering plants and spread pollen around that way. Plants only choose one over the other since they are both very resource intensive mating strategies. No one is allergic to lillac, but plenty of people are allergic to ragweed.

I liked when the US National Honey Board funded a study that compared honey, cane sugar, and HFCS and found they're all about the same (and all raised a key blood fat, a marker for heart disease).

Of course, the truth is that sugar's sugar and you should have limited amounts of it, but when it's as cheap as HFCS is in the States, they can stick it in everything.

But honey is natural, corn syrup has chemicals in it!

I prefer honey cause I'm no goddamn liberal hippie, so it's important to me that animals were killed for my food.