Honey beware

[old'un]

I was reading on a bee keeping forum about honey for sale in most of the UK super markets, after tests it was found that up to 90% of honey on the shelves was adulterated with sugar syrup.

The UK is one of the biggest importers of cheap Chinese honey which was found to contain high levels of sugar syrup.

One such honey is from Lidl, priced at 75p for 340g jar and labelled Produced in UK, produce of China.

If you like your honey make sure your buying honey and not sugar syrup.

[ditchman]

i have also read this .....FAKE HONEY......

[enfieldspares]

20 minutes ago, old'un said:

I was reading on a bee keeping forum about honey for sale in most of the UK super markets, after tests it was found that up to 90% of honey on the shelves was adulterated with sugar syrup.

The UK is one of the biggest importers of cheap Chinese honey which was found to contain high levels of sugar syrup.

One such honey is from Lidl, priced at 75p for 340g jar and labelled Produced in UK, produce of China.

If you like your honey make sure your buying honey and not sugar syrup.

Thank you and a timely warning. I try not to buy any foodstuff made in China. 

[old'un]

28 minutes ago, ditchman said:

i have also read this .....FAKE HONEY......

No, its real honey, its just been cut with sugar syrup, the members on the bee keeping forum are not happy as the cheap Chinese honey is effecting sales of honey produced by UK bee keepers.

[samboy]

I buy honey from a local beekeeper at £12.50 a jar. But for all i know he could be buying cheap honey and sticking

his own labels on it i wouldn't know as i don't eat it. How can you tell if it's the right stuff ?.

[Scully]

We get all our honey locally. There’s an old boy in the village who keeps bees and sells it for 6 quid a jar. 
He can’t eat it himself as he’s diabetic. 
If he sells out there are plenty of other local suppliers. 

[bruno22rf]

1 hour ago, enfieldspares said:

Thank you and a timely warning. I try not to buy any foodstuff made in China. 

Not always the bad guys, they're not keen, generally, on Chicken breast so it is not in high demand and is often frozen and sold cheaply, Chinese ,again generally, avoid frozen food if they can and many would prefer to go without rather than buy frozen, thus frozen Chicken breast is exported at low prices overseas. China do not have such high standards in Animal Welfare as we do in the UK, but then if you've spent anytime around a modern hatchery you will know that standards are mainly only present on paper. All this is only from my limited knowledge of course and I'm happy to be corrected.

[Cranfield]

Its not just Chinese "honey". Most sold in large UK supermarkets shows origin as "European", this is mainly eastern Europe and comprises of sweet syrup.
If you want to compare the products, buy genuine English honey and try it, the taste and consistency is very different.
We buy some honey locally from known bee keepers, but also Black Bee honey via Amazon. 

[gmm243]

I sell my honey for £5.50 or 6 a jar.

I saw some honey in M& S a few weeks ago and it was far cheaper. It can't be pure honey at that price with the work that goes into producing honey especially in a year like this year where I was feeding my bees from the end of July. 

Where I live August is the most productive month for honey yet there was only about 6 days in August where my bees were able to get out. 

I didn't gave enough to sell as much as usual so just sold a few to a butcher friend and kept the rest for gifts or use at home.