Food & Dining Fake/Adulterated honey

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  1. paulF

    paulF Well-Known Member

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    Was pretty disappointing hearing about some Aussie Honey makers faking their produce ...

    I consume honey daily and i get local honey from Victoria(Beechworth honey usually) and was pretty happy that they are not involved in this

    Anyone else likes their honey affected by this ?
     
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  2. datto

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    Capilano Honey on buttered toast with a cup of coffee.....bewdiful.

    That mixed blossom honey is a shocker. Yuk.

    So big business is ripping off customers with a little deluding.... unheard of!
     
  3. Perthguy

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    I bought a tub of the Allowrie honey, thinking it was Australian. It is neither Australian or honey. Sugar syrup is correct. It tastes wrong. I am sticking to locally sourced Perth honey now. It's great!
     
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    I’ll be sticking with Beechworth.
     
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  5. Peter_Tersteeg

    Peter_Tersteeg Mortgage Broker Business Member

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    The real concern is what else are they bringing in with the fake honey?

    Compared to the rest of the world, Australia and New Zealand have the healthiest bees on the planet. Brining in contaminated honey (and other foods) has the potential to bring in diseases and other insects that could be devastating to Australia's apiaries.

    If you don't think this is a catastrophe, consider that over 30% of crops are pollinated by honey bees. Australia actually exports live bees to other countries just for pollination purposes.

    China's bee stocks have serious health problems. Bringing bee products to Australia threatens the health of Australian bees, which threatens food supplies around the world. The same can be said for Europe, South America and elsewhere in Asia.

    We simply shouldn't be importing any bee (or other insect) products into Australia without very, very strict quarantine measures in place.

    BTW, my Dad was a commercial bee keeper from age 16 to 70, he retired about 6 years ago. He and his business partner managed about 1400 hives, moving between sites around Victoria, NSW and SA. I spend most of my school aged summer holidays working with bees in some very rough and remote locations.
     
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    I just imagined a doctor in a lab coat putting a drip into a bee and measuring its vitals! :D:D:D
     
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    Beehive yourself!
     
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  8. Peter_Tersteeg

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    Feeding them the medicine is even trickier. You get a tiny little eye dropper and administer it orally one bee at a time...

    Actually you just mix some antibiotics with water and sugar, and pour a cup full into the hive. It's also fairly easy to spot a sick hive, the bees aren't working, the wax looks brown instead of gold, the bees are angry and sting a lot.
     
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  9. geoffw

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    Not to mention the suppository thermometer.
     
  10. DaveM

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    This is fake news
     
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    No
     
  12. Angel

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    How can bringing in bee product - fake honey - cause disease to local bees? it's not like they are importing Chinese bees.

    BTW that Aldi honey is awful. I've been putting it on my husband's porridge to try and convince him to eat less honey. I buy the real stuff from my boss at work whose husband produces it on their acreage at home. it is as awesome as Lizzie's garlic, but still not producing enough to go commercial just yet
     
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    I thought it was an old news. I kind of remember Capilano was being on news a while ago.
     
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    Mine comes from Tassie - leatherwood is da bomb.
     
  16. geoffw

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    A pity it's not garlic flavoured honey.

    According to the website, the bee's forage in the tree's.
     
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    We learnt at Sunday school about committing adultery. They never explained it properly though. It was never very clear that it was about something sweet with your honey. Especially if you weren't married to her.
     
  18. Peter_Tersteeg

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    Don't get me started. Bee reproduction and plant pollination is basically quasi-consequential group sex.
     
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    Rumours/conspiracy theories have been floating around on the internet for a while now about Capalino honey and it's owner Kerry stokes (also owner of channel 7). Would be a shame if some of them turned out to be true
     
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    Have you tried Allowrie honey? It does not taste anything like Australian honey. It's not rank but it's not good. I doubt there is much honey in what they are passing off as honey. The tests confirm it has a high level of sugar syrup. I would say this goes beyond conspiracy theory
     
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