new research debunks trad views on nutrition

[Sally PB]

Yeah all my honey comes from locals.

I'm glad to hear that. I get my honey from Ed, my "bee guy." Someday, my bees will make me some honey... come on girls...

I don't mean right now, of course. I mean next summer/fall.

 

[saysfaa]

If I correctly understood the people at the bee club, there is more to crystalizing honey than age and/or temperature, and/or purity. They said some pure honey will never crystallize (really pure, not legally pure although blended with other things). When it will, it will at different ages and different temperatures. They said the more easily it will crystallize, the higher the quality of the honey.

 

[Sally PB]

I hadn't heard that. Very interesting!

 

[BDutch]

If I correctly understood the people at the bee club, there is more to crystalizing honey than age and/or temperature, and/or purity. They said some pure honey will never crystallize (really pure, not legally pure although blended with other things). When it will, it will at different ages and different temperatures. They said the more easily it will crystallize, the higher the quality of the honey.

It depends on the flowers they forage too.
Some types of honey like pure clover honey is always solid.

 

[NagemTX]

It depends on the flowers they forage too.
Some types of honey like pure clover honey is always solid.

In our area it's wild flower and clover.

 

[Molpet]

Not enough slow growing chickens for KFC to stop using CX
https://www.theguardian.com/food/20...ledge-to-stop-using-frankenchickens-in-the-uk

 

[NagemTX]

Not enough slow growing chickens for KFC to stop using CX
https://www.theguardian.com/food/20...ledge-to-stop-using-frankenchickens-in-the-uk

Dang.

 

[Perris]

we do not need more poultry units of any industrial type
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-people-data-shows-river-pollution-wye-severn

Edited to add, the caption to the first photo says it all: "Free range laying hens inside a shed on a British farm" Free range only in the sense that somewhere out of sight is a pophole to a muddy patch at the side of the shed.

 

[Altairsky]

The crystallization of natural honey depends on the flower types. Mixed flower honey always crystallize with cold temperatures, other flowers like pure dandelion and pure canola honey are always solid, the most popular acacia honey and chestnut honey never crystallize no matter what.
What makes the difference is the proportion between fructose and glucose that each plant produce. Honey rich in glucose tend to crystallize a lot more than those rich in fructose.

 

[Molpet]

Free range only in the sense that somewhere out of sight is a pophole to a muddy patch at the side of the shed.

Yes it's the same here, which is what prompted me to raise my own.... Raising my own also helps me to reduce portion sizes.