BTW we charge £5 per 1lb / 454g jar if we sell honey at local events and we cover our costs with no great profits.
An empty honey jar costs us around 40p.
If you want to help the honey bees then by all means plant suitable flowers, but you could also support your local beekeepers by buying honey directly from them or at farmers markets etc..
Thank you for bearing with. Hot deal , but I won't be buying any.:wink:

I thought I was going to read a poem at first.

A blend of EU and non EU honeys...nothing pure...

where are you based bigredbucket?

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Just been into Blackburn Morrison's .The stock was all short dated to August 2016. The stock on the shelf had started to crystalize at approx 50% volume. In addition the content's are listed everywhere in the world blended honey which is exactly the same as "mum's choice" honey which is sold by supermarkets at just over a quid....Not a bargain and another example of Morrison's trying to have the customer over....

No one can truly claim their honey is organic as you can't control what the bees collect. You can site them on organic status land, but if they want, they can fly 5 miles to forage. They would need to be in a huge organic "oasis" for that to work - very unlikely on our cramped island. We do not pasteurise - honey is naturally antiseptic and if correctly processed there is no need. In fact we only warm it as much as necessary for it to pass through the very fine filters. Some folks don't even want to filter - but I don't like to find bee parts on my toast...

We would love to charge more! But as long as Rowse can be bought for £1.28 it's hard to do.
We might produce 100 - 200 jars per year. As an association we sell at 3 or 4 local community events - village fete, council open day, county show etc.
I have seen (rather expensive) honey in our local farm shop - it is local-ish but the methodology is more industrial. They can tell you the honey is from Hertfordshire, I can tell you which hive it came from and which season. :smiley:

Regardless if "food chemists" actually tested every honey product sold in the UK,
if it contains non-EU honey, it is not guaranteed to be pure.
In fact more likely to be impure (or "quality" as you put it).
The term I use for "fake honey"
includes very poor ratio honey-syrup blends (like 10% honey :confused:)
and anyway, these companies can get away with things you wouldn't believe.

Misleading labels like on products that say "made with organic ingredients"
may also contain non-organic ingredients/processing/contaminants/treatments, etc.

That's what I meant.
I don't know if 100% fake honey would be allowed to be labeled as honey
but to me even if it's 80% honey, it's still extremely misleading labeling.
But there's far worse out there than 80% honey for example.
As someone said, they bought some honey in this country that
had 10% honey and the rest syrup garbage! :confused:

I think what he meant was that non-EU honeys don't guarantee
purity, e.g. some Chinese honeys are fake or impure.

And I agree, it is suspicious that it contains non-EU honey.
Business as usual I suppose. :neutral_face:

Is your honey organic and unpasteurised?

BTW we charge £5 per 1lb / 454g jar if we sell honey at local events and we cover our costs with no great profits.
An empty honey jar costs us around 40p.
If you want to help the honey bees then by all means plant suitable flowers, but you could also support your local beekeepers by buying honey directly from them or at farmers markets etc..
Thank you for bearing with. Hot deal , but I won't be buying any.:wink:

I love honey. Always have. :sunglasses:

Used to buy local but I've had some that doesn't taste that good, tastes cheap, doesn't crystalise... are they filling jars with Lidl's crap?

Best out there on the shelves is Littleover Apiaries, currently on offer in Sainsbury's at 3 quid. Normally 4 quid.
Both set and runny varieties are superb! Genuine English honey, none of the 'blended' stuff. I buy this everytime, even over the local stuff after my experiences.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/honey/littleover-clear-wildflower-honey-340g
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/honey/littleover-english-set-honey-340g

They even do a version with 'royal jelly' but it's dearer, usually available in Waitrose just under a fiver. Doesn't appeal.

This quest for real local honey is all very noble, but if we spent all our time travelling to producers that are deemed suitable to buy the stuff, along with all the other products that are not all exactly 100% natural, then we would feel morally good about it, but would not only be financially broke, but would produce car pollution far worse than any gain from the product from all the travelling. It's not easy to just go to (or even identify) your local producer in the middle of Wigan :smirk:

Found a local bee keeper in my area thanks to that website - looking forward to buying and trying local fresh honey! Thank you.

A blend of EU and non EU honeys...nothing pure...

Voted hot for the deal BTW. Immaterial as to whether I personally like it or not, it's still a good deal.

Gales honey is the best... All British ingredients too..

Good price if you make mead or methlogin.

Funny that rowse link is on http://www.BBKA.org.uk

Thats not necessarily so, it depends on the bees forage, our honey is quite light and very runny until it granulates

BBKA doesn't include Scotland?
Did we get independence when I wasn't looking?

Contains non-EU honey. Pretty vague - how do you know that doesnt include Chinese honey?

Some nonsense on here - its not fake honey.

Now the question of quality is another matter - this is mass produced honey - and containing non- eu honey.

Foods coming from China should be avoided.

Is this sugar free ?

so does that means you dont consume honey from Rowse then ?

sure thing these honeys taste rather golden syrupy than anything else. pure honey is slightly darker and not very liquid.

Not a bad deal, but Asda pure honey is £1.35 for a much bigger jar (454g), which seems better?

Yes - the national British BeeKeeping Association (www.BBKA.org.uk) website has contact information for all the local associations and your local area can tell you where they sell, and/or which beekeeper lives nearest to you. Thank you for your support. :innocent:

Buzzzzzing deal bzzzzzzz

As a hobbyist beekeeper I am heartened that there are folks asking these questions.
In our house, 100% pure means - take frames from hive (at the right moment) uncap the wax cells by hand, insert frames into honey extractor (like a spin-dryer) extract honey, pass gently warmed honey through fine filter and into a jar. The honey will still contain pollen and wax particles small enough to go through the filters. It tastes amazing.

The mega producers blend honey from all over the world, they heat it strongly and force it under pressure through micro-filters so all the pollen is removed. It tastes...sweet.

Even cheaper than Lidl!

You'll never become a real SLIM shady if you keep eating this stuff

:wink:

Maybe it is, but in the same way that Fifty Shades of Grey is a book.

funny
but this just happened to me today too
treat my lot to a lovely looking slab in my local indian store
it looked like honeycomb in a tray of honey
i didnt think to check its ingredient list
it said honey on the label so i guess i believed it was honey
you know what i mean
then gets it back home
reads the label properly
blimmin glucose fructose. with ten percent honey
ouch
expensive mistake and one disappointed me

paid 3 quid only last week for pure unpasteurised is it? as in as it comes , with all of the honey nutrients you would expect

lesson learned, read every label....

If it's "fake (e.g. some kind of syrup like high fructose corn syrup)", it's not honey. If it's not honey, the presence of sugars and other chemicals not actually found in real honey wold be easily detectable to a food chemist.
With Rowse being a global player in the honey market, what do you suppose the chances are of them risking their reputation and their entire business to provide a special offer at Morrisons?

I knew nothing of this! Fortunately, I don't like the taste of honey. I'm sure while the US may have the resources to investigate such things, we don't, we can't even stop people coming into this country! The full frightening story about honey production is here.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/honey-laundering-the-sour-side-of-natures-golden-sweetener/article562759/?page=1

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% NOT a pure honey

heat,,thanks

cool, cheers

great find. is this sold at this price in m locals?

Thanks!!!