[spikels]

Just to be clear - the story in the first paragraph is about royal jelly not honey. Royal jelly a totally different thing than honey: a bee glandular secretion rather than bee processed plant nectar [1].

However I doubt it should be given to infants either and would not base any health decisions on anecdotes like this no matter how appealing the narrative.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_jelly

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> not base any health decisions on anecdote

It's not even an anecdote. It's a "short story by Roald Dahl". You know, fiction from a writer known for his "unsentimental, often very dark humour." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

Really, don't base health decisions on surreal horror stories.

[radicaledward]

I guess I made a couple of assumptions when I wrote my comment. 1) I thought a lot of people wouldn't know the difference. 2) I guessed that royal jelly would be host to a similar spectrum of bacteria to honey. These are possibly not true, but I figured that caution was better than anything else.

Thanks for your clarification though!

[roghummal]

Royal jelly? +1 str. Would eat any day.