Benefits of various types of honey

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golok

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I have always like honey. I have been putting honey in my breakfast cereals for decades.

Some honey sellers have educated me to some small degree about honey.
It seems honey from different kinds of flowers have different properties.

I have seen some bottles of honey being sold at extraordinary prices.The shopkeeper told me that the expensive ones are really worth the price.

What are some of the really good types of honey? Any beekeepers out there?

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I don't know anything about honey other than I like it. Does anyone know if there is truth that Baby's shouldn't eat honey as it can harm/kill them? If it is bad for infants, why?? I know a guy who was a beekeeper, but I don't think he knows much about the honey, more about bee's and getting stung.
 
It is bad for babies because there are a small amount of Botulism spores present in honey. Adults are unaffected by the spores, but babies can get very sick (so says Alton Brown). In regards to the different types of honey and the prices, it all has to do with the flowers that the bees used to make it. Honey tastes like the flower it came from, for example Orange blossom honey tases like oranges. The high cost comes when you try to limit the bees to one kind of flower to the exclusion of all others. As for special properties, I wasn't aware of any other than varying tastes and strength of flavor.

Pascal
 
I use unpasteurised honey and have done so for a long time. The properties alleged differ according to the flowers involved. Manuka honey is a fortune. There's Royal Jelly and propolis honey, but that's different.
Honey has different enzymes and so forth, but every study I have seen concludes that there is no measurable advantage or effect from one type to the other. Taste clearly differs.
Despite the studies, it doesn't make sense to me that sugars are all the same and that natural honies will be chemically indistinguishable from refined sugar. So I eat the good stuff anyway. rarely the manuka, but good "natural" honey from small makers. It tastes better, it digests better and even if it's only a placebo effect, I'm happier. But the prices can be ridiculous.
 
I have heard to eat local honey if you have allergies and it will lessen the effects of the Pollen come spring.

Who knows?

Gadget54
 
I thought the problem with babies and honey was with Aflotoxin, toxin from molds, but I could be wrong, just ask my wife!

Here's a tip, don't eat honey from bees that have been working tobacco blossoms! ...unless you chew!
 
I've used various types of honey to make mead. In the process I've found that I can taste the difference between some types, but not others. In general, for me, the darker the honey is, the stronger the flavor. Buckwheat honey (very dark, almost black) is quite tasty. Makes a great mead too!
 
I was wrong, it is as Pascal says -- botulism. We all eat botulism spores all the time on our food, especially fresh vegetables, but our immune system can handle them -- babies cannot. It's when the spores germinate in food and produce toxin that we "all" get in trouble. The bacteria are not toxic, it's the toxin (byproduct of their matabolism) that's poisonous to us.

Bruce
 
Local honey is getting hard to find around here. For me buckwheat ( almost impossible to find) and goldenrod are tops. Heather honey from scotland is is great too.But there is a huge variety so what is 'best' is a matter of taste. Honey has also been used for thousands of years as a wound dressing and it has been researched and proven effective . Germs can't live in honey so it has antibacterial effect and it also increases the flow of leucocytes therefore speeds healing.
 
I discovered a honey farm close to me and I am going to give the local pollen reduces allergies claim a try. My allergies aren't really bad, I don't take anything for them, but I do notice some annoyances in the spring and fall.

If you want Buckwheat honey the place near me has it. Hunter's Honey Farm has had it on his shelves for a while now. It definitely stands out from other sources. He says he there are fewer and fewer people growing buckwheat all the time and he has to take his hives about 150 miles north of us to get it. I'm developing a taste to Tupelo myself, Tulip Poplar is great too. Next year he might be offering Blackberry that will come straight from the blackberry patch on my hunting property, if the hives do well enough and I don't eat it all.
 
I prefer wildflower honey, even if it's not from my area purely for a balanced taste if nothing else.

Good thing is I'm living now in a small country where the fauna is simmilar more or less, And yes I tried the Local Wildflower honey thing, and it worked for me in Virginny.

Also Honey (in general)is the best OTS burn treatment.
 
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