Why Supermarket Honey is FAKE 

Upvote!!!! I really hate people like this spreading misinformation to try and convince people conventional farming practices are bad. Like...if it's so easy, you feel 8million people daily.

@@chelseyaustin6015 seriously. The whole dramatization was distasteful.

Thank u for this. Knew this shit was a waste of time

@@chelseyaustin6015 well it aint misinformation if it's true, honey. what about conventional farming do you think is beneficial to the soil/ecology? it's a race to the cheapest possible price per calorie, USA is on it's way to 100% corn-fed fat fucks ASAP

Thanks.I know also,living when I was young 60years ago,so much good was the real honey from the Swiss alps,made by people in love with their bees! Now,living in Cambodia,I eat only the name honey,but I know that,coming from china and so cheap,it is sugar that I eat. I don't care anymore,but for people having childs,it is a disaster!😢

In the olden days the honey tin had an instruction on it that my dad (who had been a hobby beekeeper) was fond of reciting. “All honey will crystallize with age. Simply place in a pot of warm water to return it to its former state.”

honey has been found in ancient egyptian sites, although crystalized it was still edible. honey does not go bad.

I love the almost crunchy texture of crystalized honey!!

Totally agree, its like thousands of little creatures worked their asses off, had to barf in eachothers mouth just to create that

Totally agree, its like thousands of little creatures worked their asses off, had to barf in eachothers mouth just to create that

We have blackberry honey in southern Oregon and it is definitely one of the most delicious honeys out there.

Try tupelo honey from Apalachicola, Fla. It's the bomb.

Back in the late 1970s-1980s we sold honey for $2-$3.00 a pound and could hardly give dark honey away which always tasted better to me.

We need to learn more about honey!! That way we may protect ourselves from fake honey! My family had bad experience with beekeepers, that we know a lot of time, and they sold us bad honey, after some time we notice that the honey separated in two, one liquid part and the other one solid... We were ashamed to say anything, but we din't buy from him anymore... And always trying to find real honey. We don't buy on stores... Directly from beekeepers, but it's not guaranteed either.

@@kaerligheden You can guarantee and test honey by taking a sample (if you have time and if you can get a sample) and crystalizing it. If it crystalizes, you can for sure know that the honey is authentic. If it doesn't, then it's fake.

@@Thestargazer56 It depends on the person which honey tastes better. For example, I prefer Manuka and chestnut honey. My brother, on the other hand, loves Linden honey. It highly depends on the person. As for price, honey, at least in the south Balkans is going for 15-25€ per kg.

@@mohicanyt thank you, now I know, but I wish I could know before buying...

@@squirrelcovers6340 different FROM* No need to be picking holes over what may well be a typo, especially over a non-standard grammatical usage anyway. 😉

@@JustAnotherBuckyLover FWIW, in the UK, "different TO" is used. My mother taught high school English, and I'm somewhat of a language nerd, but I don't feel the need to "correct" everything I see in comments, especially if what has been typed is perfectly understandable.

@@bobjacobson858 Then your mother taught you wrong, Bob - or more likely, you're just talking out of your behind. Because the CORRECT grammatical form taught in the UK is "different from". It's always been "similar to" and "different from". I have post-secondary English language qualifications too. Also, you completely missed the point of my comment. Which was calling out the previous commenter who was, in fact, being the actual "grammar nazi" and pointlessly correcting someone unnecessarily. But go off, I guess. You might want to work on your reading comprehension as well as your grammar, too. 😂🤦

working my way through a quart of local honey that is mostly crystalized at this point. I don't understand the issue with it in that state, melts fine in tea and I rather like the texture on my toast, thank you. Good to know that is one way to identify real honey. Also, drop me in some comb, and no need to ultra purify... I know where it comes from, don't bother me a bit.

@@leefranklin3054 Consumers, American consumers in particular, are spoiled little prisses. They want their products to be pretty and perfect, not realizing nature itself is messy. Number 1, Honey is mostly sugar, and we eat way too much sugar to begin with. Number 2, via Number 1, it's not a big deal to spend a little more on raw honey, which does crystallize after some time but is still perfectly usable and never spoils. You shouldn't be using that much in the first place. If you look at most commercially available products, they reek of consumer ignorance, cuz that's what the large corporations want.

Amen to that! The taste factor is undeniable for sure 👀

Plus local honey can help with pollen allergies!

​@@tehyas4622unfortunately that's not true. All the scientific studies that have checked have not found evidence to support that. Check out the asthma and allergy foundation of America for a good summary. It definitely doesn't hurt though. While we're at it, that stupid plastic on the banana stem doesn't do anything either.

Same, my bf always hated honey when I bought it from the super market because it always had that off after taste to it. I even tried raw honey from sprouts but it still wasn’t as good as fresh made honey from the farmers market

I don't travel a lot but when I do i like to buy local honey, it's surprising the difference the local ecosystem makes in the taste. One problem with local honey (at least here in argentina) is that there's little to no regulations, heck it could even be watered down, ideally you'd find what organization checks the quality of honey in your country and buy with their approval.

I do remember this very well - having lived in central valley of CA most of my life. Had to leave because of the almonds & their pollens was causing my hubby to develop severe breathing issues, but always seeing the beehives everywhere is some you don't forget .

Honey bees cannot pollinate tomatoes, as their tongues can't reach deep enough into the flowers to reach the nectar and the pollen is too deep for the bees to brush against it. Smaller pollinators can do it just fine though, and larger pollinators, like bumblebees, can shake the flower so vigorously that they shake pollen and nectar out. Bees do not hibernate, although they will go into a state of torpor, and it is good when they go into a partial state of torpor as they need less energy to get through winter - if they don't you'd almost never get a surplus from them. They do form a cluster, and the colder it gets, the tighter that cluster will be, to provide warmth for the queen and the (very small quantity of) brood that she will produce in winter. Worker bees in the cluster can disconnect the muscles in their thoraxes from their wings and just vibrate them like us shivering, to generate enough heat inside that cluster of bees to keep the queen and brood warm, while other bees are warmed just enough to move inside the hive to collect condensation from the inner walls and pass it to each other so that they can digest honey, which has to be thick for storage but has to be diluted for metabolising. The cluster moves upwards in the hive through the winter, warming the honey it covers as it moves up so that it can be used. The colder it is, the tighter the cluster and the less heat needs to be generated to keep the queen and brood warm, meaning the bees need far more honey to survive a warm winter than a cold one, just because they are more active and use more energy. If you want a decent honey, get to know a local beekeeper, and ideally, learn how to keep them yourself. You can get away with feeding bees pure white sugar syrup (2 parts sugar to one of water by weight, and you will need to heat the water) to top off their winter supply in the autumn if you take a bit too much, but you should never allow any comb that has been in the hive when you do that to be harvested. It isn't honey, it is bee-processed sugar syrup. Honey can only come from floral sources or from honeydew-producing insects. And if you add up the total production of beekeepers which goes into the commercial market, it is less than half of what is sold on supermarket shelves each year, which is all the proof you need that there is a heck of a lot of funny hunny out there. But migratory beekeeping is far from sustainable. It spreads disease and produces horrible bee stock that can't survive without heavy treatment against all the diseases that they never get the chance to develop a means of dealing with. The farmers of the crops should be less greedy and mix their crops up so that they can have their own hives on their own farms and those bees can make it through the year on what is available to them locally.

Wow, I see they kept the bees busy as, well, bees, all year round.

@@carolynridlon3988 I love that CALI honey. Hard to find the honest beekeepers selling it. Let's get cooking.

One fake beekeeper in my area has only one beehive. A 2 frame observation hive at the nature center building at a state park. It has his name and honey business number advertisement. He buys barrels of Chinese fake honey from 5 hours drive away, jars it up and puts a " local honey" label. His honey is at the farmers markets and local stores. Everyone buys it and doesnt care. I suspect he has my bees poisoned occasionally because he sells honey twice as much as mine.

Good luck finding anything that isn't a scam these days...buying cars, buying houses, buying food, buying plane tickets, etc.

Exaaaaactly 👀👀

Where I live, fake honey is the same price as local honey. The choice was easy there once I found where to buy them. Some of our groceries here don’t have local honey or they put them literally on the lowest shelf. Imported honey is incredibly expensive. In the middle of the shelf, you get “HONEY(in huge letters) flavored syrup (in much smaller letters)”

​@@rainecolubio Basically it's just a liquid sugar with honey flavor I've seen many of those and most of them only has 0.5 to 1% of REAL honey in ingredients

Half of the shelf is vegan "honey" now, that's at least easy to spot.

Same here it should be a luxury item like caviar.

What?!? Did not know this, that's awesome!

Not only taste but color and consistency also.

There are studies that show that local honey can help with allergies as it exposes your immune system to a treated version of the pollen that is the allergen.

My mom's neighbors are beekeepers here in Arkansas. We get honey from them all the time. One summer it tasted just like peaches. I always hope when I get honey from them again it will have that peach taste, but it's still always amazing. It absolutely taste like the smell of our fields in our area. I'm actually drinking green tea with some of the honey in it right now.

​@@FutureProofTVYesh there are different types of honey due to this. Citrus blossim honey for instance carriers citrus like notes. I did buy some yet my taste buds are trash so I can't taste it sadly. Yet others say yeah it is good. Honey is like the supplement market it seems TBH. A lot of false advertisement so you absolutely have to be careful I hear to stay away from different brands due to the fact they themselves have been sold by their sources regular honey as something else. Some shady bee keepers are a thing!

I remember it too. Sometimes I would have honey open face sandwiches and the honey would thicken on the bread and get crunchy. Sooo good.

You and I have the opposite experience. The cheapest bottle of honey at the grocery stores for me always crystalize.

@@Tom-cn4cm Are you in here in the states or somewhere else? I only ask because it seems the US is the only place that it's 100 percent legal to sell fake honey and pass it off as real honey.

@@jolo3118 that happens here in UK too, there used to be penalties for false advertising but they don't seem to be enforced nowadays, they would probably have to take the majority of products off the shelf.

​@@jolo3118 happens in eu to

The royal jelly is even more potent for health reasons.

I plant both. I give bee feed to get hives going from splits or new hives. Usually to draw out comb during non honey producing months.

Might as well double dip and plant some flowers underneath those trees, right?

Another added bonus with trees, they convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. The Earth & everyone in it can't live without that.

Some years are dry and less blooms for bees to feed on, some years late frost kills blooms. There are several reason a beekeeper has to feed his bees to keep them alive, some years they only make enough honey to sustain themselves over winter. They are several reasons why feeding them is a necessity at times.

@@YippingFox It may or may not work depending on the type of trees and flowers, growing anything under trees can be very challenging.

Can do! Love the enthusiasm 😁😁

Would definitely watch that. Also, I read somewhere that corn sugar - used in the US - is a major contributor to obesity, whereas beet sugar in Europe has a "healthier" effect on our metabolism. Unfortunately, I can't find the article right now.

@@FutureProofTV Looking forward to it! 🤠❤

Can’t wait to s the it! Omnivore’s Dilemma is one of my favorite books

@@FutureProofTV Omgg I can't wait for this one!!

🙄

Such things as "honey" candles don't exist. Those are candles made of bee's wax. Bees produce both. Wax and honey. Of course in the most cheapest store they lie about everything and there might not even be genuine bee's wax in those candles.

@@Tokru86 While you're correct on all points, the original comment is talking about canDIEs, not canDLEs. Easy mistake to make on a small screen. 🙂

I look at foods at the dollar tree as a joke, although, sometimes I'm surprised to find actual food. It's kind of neat to see "sugar", "cocoa" or any other real ingredients, instead of "corn syrup", "high fructose corn syrup" and "hydroxytryglycerouraniumhexaflouride 2, 4-D".

@@manictiger Same here. Also recently found some weirder fakes from chinese companies such as: fake rice, fake eggs, fake beer, etc.

Sorry to break your heart, but ... everything at the dollar store is cheap on purpose. They get more profit selling less natural ingredients.

Brah please elaborate on this story... how on earth did you manage to get the honey from the live hives? lol.

@@nahor88 You know, you don't destroy a hive when you harvest honey, right? You only take out a portion of the hive and leave the rest for the colony to thrive on.

@@TroyBrophy Um, when did I imply that you destroyed anything??? You said you have hives in your garden, you didn't say you're a beekeeper. That's why I wanted more details. Jeez such negativity.

@@nahor88 ok "Brah"

@@TroyBrophy I'm sorry you're an old fogey that doesn't get millenial lingo. There, you see how unnecessary that negativity was?

This is actually really cool info. Thanks for sharing! I'm learning about apiculture, and I was wondering about the management of Nosema, how common it is, and how detrimental this parasite is in your experience?

@@Larsoff It's not terribly common. Of course every beekeeper has the nosema scare when they come out of winter and the bees all come out of the hive after the winter and start pooping everywhere. Nosema isn't too hard to treat, but of course when you treat you have to make an effort to take the honey supers off so that none of the treatment gets mixed in with your honey. Happy to answer questions.

This is super interesting, thank you so much for sharing!!

Corrections: 1. Treatment-free beekeeping exists, ergo 2. not every hive needs chemicals to treat varroa, and 3. while it scales poorly, can certainly be sustainable, especially on a smaller scale. This is another reason to try to get honey locally; you're more likely to find someone willing to put up with the additional complications of treatment-free beekeeping on a hobby level.

@@hadrast besides your first point, which isn’t a correction of anything I said, your comment directly conflicts with the entire scientific beekeeping body and the authority of varroa research and treatment, Randy Oliver. He is the closest anyone has gotten to treatment free beekeeping and he only has a 25% success rate with VHS queens. I browse the treatment free section of the beesource forum and nobody has figured it out. Please dont spread misinformation.

Beecause heat of a certain temp. will kill off the natural antibiotics etc.

What signs did he teach you to differentiate real from fake honey?

I'd never heard of "raw honey", because I didn't think there was honey that isn't "raw". A quick search led me to discover that honey is, at least in some cases, pasturized. Apparently: "Pasteurization of honey reduces the chance of fermentation and also delays granulation. " This is honestly baffling to me, when stored in a cool, dry place, honey has years long shelf life. I've also never heard of honey fermenting on it's own. Another quick search revealed why, it needs to have moisture above 17% to have a chance at fermenting, which would essentially mean taking out the honey from the hive before it's ready.

Who could have possibly guessed that its more expensive for a reason

Made me appreciate these even more whenever we get them.

So, kind of like taxpayers who work and then there's the welfare recipients are off kilter.

But I hate mosquitos!

I'm a beekeeper. What you said is exactly right.

@@joejones4296 and no real progress in figuring out colony collapse disorder. Thankfully, it's looking like nature is figuring it out. After a decade of seeing nearly zero honeybees, I'm seeing a *lot* of them now. Including one pair of bees on a sunflower that were around 2/3 normal length.

And a lot of people don't bother to inform others but just make random statements about people not paying attention?!

I heard of some beekeepers using copper wires/strips on hive entrances to kill varroa, so the bees crawl over/rub onto the wire.. Copper is highly nasty to small organisms due to electric charge it carries. It's why you spray copper/etc on plants for certain pests. Maybe worth a look into :) Can't hurt and doesn't take much time to set up.

Buying local is a scam. Look it up. Many farmers markets have sellers who buy from wholesalers and rebrand it to be "organic" or "homegrown"

@millirabbit4331 I don't agree, it might be like that in your area. But in every country areas we've ever lived the people selling the honey are the people with their own hives.

@@Aussie_Truth The greater problem is income. Organic foods and local are inherently more expensive. When such a large population of underpaid workers are unable to afford the difference, they choose affordable. This is worsened by other costs like housing and transportation being jacked by greedy multinationals. So, the problem isn't the consumer but the governments and regulations, the very Best governments money can buy.

@@millirabbit4331 hardley.. most regional towns have a very active bee keeping community and we have access to local honey. It really is not good business to do what you say.

I bake with honey and was casual about it, mostly using local but sometimes not, without giving it any thought but one time I ran out and picked up some honey at the grocery store. When I tasted my cake, it was crap! It didn't take long to figure out that the grocery store honey had ruined it. It said honey on the label but I'm betting that it wasn't. That was when I started to really pay attention to the honey I was using. Now I bake with local honey exclusively.

if they're anything like the good people around these parts, don't forget to give the beekeeper a bottle or two from time to time, they'll appreciate it

America is unique in the degree to which we are subjugated to food adulteration for the sake of profit.

Great tips! It's all about fostering that sense of community hey?

Best advice for finding affordable raw honey is to buy and bulk and to follow the mead makers

I get Nates 100% pure raw and unfiltered honey, it's the most expensive you can get at Walmart. I also write LOVE AND GRATITUDE on the back of the container as well as all my water bottles. Water is alive and has been scientifically verified to respond to sound, emotions, etc. Experiments were conducted with putting different labels on jars. Adding Love and Gratitude to your bottles will surprise you with it's benefits. Water bottles with these words added will not start to stink. For Honey, adding these words seems to slow down the rate of Crystalization and improves the taste once it does, but I only just started doing this on honey.

@@jodylecompte ni just find a honey producer :)

​@@EsotericBibleSecretswhat the fuck

I'm in Dayton, and would like to find a local source for occasional honey purchases. Are you close?

Fun face my husband was a bee keeper in California about 750 super hives, any ways he produced a lot of eucalyptus honey, it is clear enough to read print through, and taste like rich butterscotch...if you can order some it is exotic.

Do you have a website or able to ship to other states?

Pine honey sounds like nectar of the gods and we will be on the lookout for this stuff for the rest of our days 😅😅

that Paz marijuana guy made honey from his marijuana garden about ten years ago. amazing stuff

@@notfiveoWhat did they replace the honey with?

I didn't know pine honey was a thing. They don't have flowers. But looked it up, and apparently the bees are collecting honeydew off another insect to make it - learned something new

Not surprising coming from a country that makes and drinks restina. Man, that stuff is definitely an acquired taste (and I haven't acquired it). I'm sure pine honey is much better, but I can't help but be a little suspicious... lol.

I have fond memories of helping my mom and dad take honey back in the 1980s ( I was early inn my 30s at the time). Dad would talk to his bees and I did the smoker when I helped.

Are mites still a problem?

Where did you source new bees 2 years ago ? Did it take long, where the queens from ?

today I learned what a bain-marie is (a double boiler!/water bath)

@@guillermomonroy7319 just warm it up in the microwave for like half a minute, same but less fuss.

@@sashkad9246 This might destroy some precious enzymes though. Just leave it crystallized and it won't slide off your bread 🤤

they have found edible honey in ancient egyptian sites.

​@sashkad9246 My mom did that a couple of days ago, and found it quickly melted all over the floor of the microwave. 😂😅

The one I find funny is canned "pumpkin." Used to be purely pumpkin, but a few started cutting it with butternut squash. Those brands got more popular for being tastier. Cut to today, and all brands use 100% butternut squash. The funniest bit of all is that, in this essentially blind taste taste experiment, people prefer butternut squash. But if you offer it to them AS butternut squash, they refuse.

@@stevenn1940 Used to give that to my dog when he wouldn't eat

Can. You share the list?

@@stevenn1940 Butternut squash is a superior product to orange jack-o-lantern pumpkin. I bake split butternut squash wrapped in aluminum foil and render it into a puree soup in the blender with some added water and soy sauce. I blend the whole thing, skin, and seeds included. The blender produces a smooth product with no hint of the seeds or skin. I do the same with acorn squash and Panama pumpkin.

@@stevenn1940I love butternut squash soup , and pumpkin pie , both are my favorite

Using it to water down gas and claiming for the climate while driving down mileage by 25 % ! That a billionaire who made a fortune on it and drove food prices sky high ! Then again he can do a show on fake men fake woman and a dozen made up things calling themselves humans.

Yes! So much comes from corn. Ethanol, sweetener, syrup, food for both humans and livestock, biodegradable plastics and much more. This would be an amazing topic because of the enormous versatility of corn.

🏊‍♂️on our way!

That is, unfortunately, quite common. As far as I know it's also quite difficult to catch, because feeding bees sugar syrup for the winter is a standard practice, so a beekeeper buying bulk sugar is completely normal.

I am a beekeeper, I only use sugar water during early spring dearth (lack of flowers) and starting a hive from a package. Then in the winter I give them an emergency sugar supply in the top in case they run out of honey late winter, but that kind is just table sugar on a paper since sugar water is too cold to access that time of the year. It should only be used in times of emergency and to tide them over till more flowers come out. Sugar water made into a syrup consistency and sugar syrup made from high fructose corn syrup are two different things and I was warned NEVER to use high fructose corn syrup because it lacks nutrients and any substance for the bees in their hour of need (and makes your honey taste horrible) If my bees don't have enough for themselves for winter, I get none for myself that fall. By fall, the bees should have utilized all that sugar water for making bee bread (which is their primary food) and what should be left in the fall is honey they got from flowers and will be better for them for winter rationing and excess is harvested for honey for humans.

interesting

Problem we get with European honey in the supermarkets is that it's a mix of many runs of honey from multiple countries and as such has an odd taste. Local is always better. Also, I think you meant parking spaces and not lots ;)

@@czechgop7631You're right ofc, not a native English speaker :)

@@Eteokles81 No worries, me neither :D

@@czechgop7631That much I expected from your name :D

Bees will return to the same flowers. I had a jar of blueberry honey once, and oh my! It was so delicious; got in Bar Harbor, ME.

That's so cool! I'm from Portland Maine so that is cool to hear!@@jennifermarlow.

It's not burned marshmallow 😂 it's over smoked honey

​@@Paul-hr6ygyou don't smoke honey🤦🏼‍♂️

​@@TheCAB207 yeah, I cannot keep it lit.

There was this Russian guy who’d give my family giant jugs of this really dark honey. It was fantastic.. my aunt made all types of stuff with it. Makes the stuff in grocery stores seem like raw sugar

@@Errcyco The Dark is my favorite! I get that from their late summer foraging.

30 years ago, I used to make mead regularly, using varietal honeys sourced from local beekeepers (my faves were usually local wildflower, amish blueberry blossom from PA, and mesquite honey from AZ). Won a few awards in the AHA nationals too (for my muscat grape and basswood honey melomel, and my blueberry and blueberry blossom honey melomel). It always boggles my mind when imbecilic consumers think their honey has somehow gone bad because it crystalized, and they throw it out. Heck, ive even seem some stores sell it at a discount if it begins crystalizing. Morons.

​​@@baronratfish3865Dark honeys like buckwheat or avocado never ranked high on my faves list. While excellent as table honey, they're often too pungent or monodimensional in flavor for meadmaking.

Wow I can't give that much honey away. It is odd but people will buy honey from me but I have a hard time giving it away.

They should consider making mead. It's super simple. They could do it as a local co-op and add value to the honey. I make great mead not because I'm a great mead maker but because the bees in Hawaii are great honey makers. All I do is add it to water and wait.

@@jodyfulford8215 Oh, that's what mead is?? Time to go read up on this, I feel!

They really should get together and invest in some marketing

Can I order some of that Swedish honey?

The taste itself is probably due to it being made from different pollen and because it wasn't fillitered nothing else

In the Philippines they sell honey in literal recycled alcohol bottles and some of those bottles have bees outside of it

I get Nates 100% pure raw and unfiltered honey, it's the most expensive you can get at Walmart. I also write LOVE AND GRATITUDE on the back of the container as well as all my water bottles. Water is alive and has been scientifically verified to respond to sound, emotions, etc. Experiments were conducted with putting different labels on jars. Adding Love and Gratitude to your bottles will surprise you with it's benefits. Water bottles with these words added will not start to stink. For Honey, adding these words seems to slow down the rate of Crystalization and improves the taste once it does, but I only just started doing this on honey.

My favorite was the "spring" honey when the trees were blooming, very distinct flavor.

Does this guy have a name? Might wanna visit him if he's not too far lol

@@LukeLantern Kisner's Honey just West of Washington PA. They have a Facebook page and they might even mail it to ya.

Glad it could help ya out! Thanks for taking the time to comment and show support 😀

I get Nates 100% pure raw and unfiltered honey, it's the most expensive you can get at Walmart. I also write LOVE AND GRATITUDE on the back of the container as well as all my water bottles. Water is alive and has been scientifically verified to respond to sound, emotions, etc. Experiments were conducted with putting different labels on jars. Adding Love and Gratitude to your bottles will surprise you with it's benefits. Water bottles with these words added will not start to stink. For Honey, adding these words seems to slow down the rate of Crystalization and improves the taste once it does, but I only just started doing this on honey.

@EmeraldEyesEsoteric lol wut?

you can buy local products in a store too lol

@@user-xn4dq6wo7p you're misunderstanding my point. I didn't know what the difference was between local honey and not local honey. It all seemed to be the same thing.

It isn't just direct dilution in the bottle. Feeding the bees a cheap syrup is an indirect way of diluting the honey. The bee picks up syrup and puts it in the comb, farmer extracts it from the comb and it can be called pure honey with a very low proportion of actual flower nectar. This also has a massive boost in production per bee because they travel a shorter distance and the syrup requires less evaporation. (Some syrup feeding is a legitimate practice to help the hive in lean years, but it can be taken to an extreme.)

There was a big scandal a few years ago about Honey in Australia. If you buy Capilano (or any similar priced "honey") you are pretty much buying corn syrup. The more expensive it is the more likely it is honey.

What about the manuka honey that is sold online? It never crystalizes so they must be scamming us.

Just go with the country roadside stall dudes, if you can find 'em that stuff is like gold. Store brand honey, I like to know what native flowering tree blossoms the bees fed on (besides commercial crop plants). Australia has the tallest native flowering plants on Earth (Eucalyptus Regnans), bees notice that sort of thing. Dawson's Bee is one of our native bees, and pretty big, we have others. Thing is aussie honey is unique for those kinds of reason that we gots the bushes that bees got their mojo from.

I'm not defending store bought honey, I've always had honey directly from beekeepers who are family friends and on the rare occasions I've eaten store bought honey I've been squarely disappointed. That said, the taste of honey very much depends on what the bees made the honey from. For example, rapeseed honey is almost white and has a taste I think is closer to sugar than most types of honey. My favorite honey is a bouquet honey from all sorts of plants, it's from my mother's uncle who lives in the mountains. Because it's colder, the bees have a shorter season and produce less honey, so he's sort of forced to make bouquet honey since he can reasonably only take honey once per year. It's dark brown in color and delicious. Acacia honey is quite popular here and while it's tasty, it still falls below my favorite. The point I'm trying to make is that you could hae eaten plenty of real honey and not liked it very much, because different honey has different flavors.

I feel this way about lots of natural products. They don't need to have magical properties to be worth supporting. And don't even get me started on stoners and the magical properties of their weed when like, can't we just enjoy it cause it's fun and not pretend most of us are using it as medicine? It just makes everyone else look at these groups of people as nuts

@@squirrelcovers6340 it's "medicine" if you don't go by any meaningful definition - it doesn't treat or cure any disease other than CBD working for some very specific forms of seizure disorder (and isn't marijuana flower but a specific extract) and at best helps to relieve some nausea or pain in a less effective manner than existing drugs while also raising heart rate and causing anxiety in some people, and smoking anything is bad for the lungs period. My partner receives a prescription for medical cannabis and has done for nearly two years, so don't you dare tell me to educate myself you presumptuous twat.

same! I love to see them in bee heaven in my squash blossoms. They are so diligent and incredible

I agree with making our ecosystems more diverse for the bees, but do be careful about planting random things haphazardly. There are some plants out there that are not so good, and planting different combinations of things together could create some unexpected results. Don't plant anything dangerous.

Part of the reason for this has to be to keep the packets from crystallizing.

@@SG-df9er Romania.

@@cosmindvd#freetopg

@@CraigTheBrute-yf7no #sendhimbacktojail

I totally agree.

Same here

I have a hard time believing that. If you study bees, you realize that the different bees don’t all like the same flowers. Bumblebees like Deutzia bush flowers, but honeybees do not, and there are many flowers that the bumblebees don’t prefer, but the honeybees do. The problem is that many flowers like holly tree flowers, dandelions, cottoneaster bushes, and knotweeds are being killed off and they are some of the favorite foods for the bees. Likewise, and probably most importantly, the use of herbicides (roundup) and pesticides are killing ALL the bees. As a wild gardener with a lot of flowers in my yard, I’ve never seen bees fighting over a flower, and if you want to help the bees, plant borage, which is one flower all the bees like. It’s not the honeybees threatening the wild bees, it’s man “not so kind’s” use of chemicals, like herbicides and pesticides, that’s killing off the bees and making them weaker. Remember, the people telling you it’s the honeybees are the same ones telling you to “trust the science” and get the clot shot. You are being propagandized. Next, they’ll have you eating bugs to stop global warming. 🙄🙄🙄

It may be a regional thing (SE WI, US), but from my experience, I cannot recall the last time I saw a honey bee in my gardens. Bumble bees, ground bees, and various other bees I cannot identify all abound, but no honey bees. Seems I used to see them a lot more in the past.

I have given up on calling myself a beekeeper at this point. I'm more of a bee landlord, keeping them happy and housed in exchange for a small portion of their income.

@@rosem7042 yeahh thats what we call a beekepper haha

More like they can’t be domesticated because they’re dumb bugs. Domestication requires at least bird-level intelligence.

@mushyroom9569 idk man, bees can be trained on an individual level and their communication is pretty advanced for just being dumb bugs.

@@rosem7042Maybe they understand more than we think. I have wasps nests all over my plot and everyone is scared but ive been stung twice when first disturbing a new nest in about 5 years. i give them water all summer and they just hover about without being a threat at all

I think you are making a really good point, especially when at around the four-minute mark Levi talks about the monocultures, I don't think apples and grapes are the problem, it's the massive land usage of corn, soy, etc., which is pretty much all destined for use in the agricultural industry. However, I do think you slightly misrepresent the issue of using corn for the production of biofuel. First of all, regardless of the increased CO2 intensiveness relative to gasoline, it would still be preferred as a fuel, as it is a renewable fuel rather than a fossil fuel (i.e. the extra CO2 was pulled out of the atmosphere first). Secondly, Much of the biofuel research is focused on making 2nd gen biofuels commercially viable. 2nd gen fuels use the inedible parts of crops rather than the crops themselves for fuel production. I hope this can clear some things up, it's a topic I have been studying quite intensely for the last couple of years, so I hope you don't mind me clarifying some of those points.

There are a few vids on YT that shows how it takes more pollution to make ethanol than it saves. Also touches on the subsidies and incentives part and how some of these "programs" were just forced on us to get rid of excess corn..

so old news

Replace the corn fields with grazing plots and have more pastured beef.

@@adamrogowski2748 I think you're vastly overestimating how many cows could be sustained on that amount of land

I'm glad that your son didn't react badly to the honey. Your doctor was wrong - research has demonstrated that honey doesn't do anything to help allergies, and in fact, can trigger allergic responses up to, and including, anaphylaxis if you're allergic to the pollen in the raw honey. If you enjoy it because of the flavour, that's fine. But as someone with allergies myself, I choose to go with the filtered option as it's far less likely to make me sick (especially as I already deal with anaphylactic reactions to other substances).

@@JustAnotherBuckyLover I am curious, what medical school did you graduate from and what state are you licensed in as a Doctor? I am asking since you are so free with medical advice and to accuse a Dr of being wrong (or even malpractice).

@@rburn6677 LMAO do you think that doctors are magically prevented from being wrong and behind, or can't believe in woo? Because if so, I'd like to introduce you to Dr Oz. There are SO many doctors who fail to keep up with the latest research and in fact, it's almost impossible for a single doctor to keep up to date on every aspect of medicine. That's why they specialise. And actually, I *do* have a qualification in the medical field, and I am familiar with the process of actual scientific research, but you wouldn't believe me if I told you so I won't waste my time. But thanks for playing. Try looking at any of the major medical authorities (the AAFA is on the first page of Google), who will say the same thing. And I'm sure if you really want to, you could stop acting like a butthole, and you could research it properly in medical literature, not woo sites and honey sellers.

As an American, it's becoming emotionless how common and legal it is for food companies to sell actual junk and lie about it. The corruption here is mind-numbing. It's like an onion of organized crime, but there's cheerful music and smiling, attractive people selling it to you in an advertisement, as the best thing in the world.

Do you have any information on this ?

@@jjjdgd5 Yes, our family did send in some stuff once in a while. I remember a jar of honey from a local bee keeper that looked almost white, an uncommon colour in our area. The guy was an alcoholic so we got suspicious. Another time one of our hens hathed some eggs. The chickens grew up nicely but several of them suddenly got sick and died quickly. We feared that somebody did throw something poisonous in the yard. But they found it was an infectious disease and the chickens did not get vaccinated. In this case we paid a fee to get the answer. But it was worth it.

@@adamabele785 Ok.How is it called ?

This agency was called "Wirtschaftskontrolldienst" which was a part of the police. But the whole branch got restructured some 20 years ago. These checks are local, under the umbrella of the Landratsamt and it is organized under the local administration. It might be under the umbrella of customs as these have lost some work due to the establishment in the common market. They do checks of workhours and if workers are registerd with social security. You'd go to the local police branch and they would tell you where to go exactly.

US corn is mostly genetically modified and sprayed with nasty (probably bee killing) chemicals.

Blended honey is still honey.

@@jhoughjr1 well it is except if it's pasteurised (applying high heat) then it removes the good properties (natural yeast, enzymes) you get and it's just to make it smoother and extend its shelf life. A good deal of the blended honeys are all heat treated and filtered to stabilise them for sitting on a shelf in the supermarket. Honey which is untreated and raw actually crystallises and so needs to be gently heated at home before you can use it for drizzling etc. Also some honey these days can literally taste like syrup, honey should have a distinct flavour and normally reflects the trees/flowers/plants it's eaten the nectar from.

I don't know anybody with a 4x4 and the latest iPhone.

@@oldbatwit5102 do you know like two people?