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by reaperducer 558 days ago
If you see honey at a supermarket, no you don't, that's sugar syrup.

I get my honey from a local beekeeper who delivers to my door. He welcomes people to tour his farm to see how it's produced.

He also sells his honey in the local chain supermarkets. Your broad generalization is false.

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His point is that there is no reliable way to differentiate between real honey and adulterated product for the average consumer in store.

If 1/3 of the honey in the store is fake, but you don’t know which 1/3 is fake, then what is the point of buying any honey at that store? If you need advice about where to buy pure honey because you don’t personally know the farmer then, “treat everything at the grocery store as suspect” is fine advice.

If you have personally toured an apiary, know the keeper, and happen to know that he sells at a few grocery stores as well, you don’t need the advice, and your addition isn’t helpful since the end result is the same: the average person can’t trust the honey at their large grocery store, and they should find a local beekeeper.