Commercial honey is often pasteurized and filtered to avoid crystallization, be smoother and be pollen free. While it can effect the shelf life raw honey isn’t enormously dangerous (or illegal anywhere as far as I’m aware) like raw milk but should still be avoided by infants and immunocompromised people. I am also not american.
That’s unfortunately untrue. Raw honey contains too little pollen to have an effect, and what little is there is rapidly broken down in the stomach.
It’s also the wrong type of pollen as the type collected by bees is from plants that utilize insects, not wind, for fertilization. It’s heavy and stickier, so isn’t airborne in substantial quantities, and thus not the type of pollens responsible for most seasonal allergies.
Is cristalised honey considered unproper for consumption? Honey doesn’t go bad. That is the only food that is so. Cristalised honey is just that: honey that doesn’t have the same texture as a more recent more.
What is raw honey? Is it just honey? I’m not american.
Commercial honey is often pasteurized and filtered to avoid crystallization, be smoother and be pollen free. While it can effect the shelf life raw honey isn’t enormously dangerous (or illegal anywhere as far as I’m aware) like raw milk but should still be avoided by infants and immunocompromised people. I am also not american.
Isn’t eating local honey supposed to help with allergies because it contains local pollens? So it like builds an immunity or something?
Honey can contain botulism, which is why you need to avoid it with babies and those with weak immune systems.
That’s unfortunately untrue. Raw honey contains too little pollen to have an effect, and what little is there is rapidly broken down in the stomach.
It’s also the wrong type of pollen as the type collected by bees is from plants that utilize insects, not wind, for fertilization. It’s heavy and stickier, so isn’t airborne in substantial quantities, and thus not the type of pollens responsible for most seasonal allergies.
Lol, this was exactly my first thought as well.
Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old pots of honey that are still edible.
Well, it wasn’t in a shelf, was it? Check-mate.
Can, not will
Isn’t honey supposed to be avoided by infants anyway?
Only unpasteurised because of the risk of juvenile botulism. Some creams that treat sore nipples are made with pasteurised honey.
In Finland honey is never pasteurized but also not recommendes for children under 1 year old
Is cristalised honey considered unproper for consumption? Honey doesn’t go bad. That is the only food that is so. Cristalised honey is just that: honey that doesn’t have the same texture as a more recent more.