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  • @[email protected]English
    27•9 months ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•9 months ago

        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.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•9 months ago

            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

        • DeebsterEnglish
          6•9 months ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•9 months ago

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

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
      10•9 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•9 months ago

      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.