That gourmet luxury blend...

They say on the bottle that it's a blend so I don't think this is that infuriating. Though if I saw "Texas Honey Blend" I'd assume it's cut with crude oil.

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Only in America.
OK maybe not, but at least here it's illegal to label it honey if it isn't 100% pure honey. that goes for all of EU, where it's illegal to add sugar, according to the EU honey directive.
The result is that you buy either Honey or Syrup, you know what you get, and you get what you pay for.

Edit:

Apparently it's illegal in USA too, whether adding the word "blend" makes it legal IDK. It is sort of a warning sign but still misleading.

I was permanently banned from the Reddit sub without recourse for posting this

Looks at username

You're sure it wasn't for... other reasons?

Honey is a commonly faked food. At least they label it so you can avoid it.

Hmm that would be illegal in the EU and UK, where nutritional info and proportion of honey would be required.

Quite tempted to write in though. Anyone else?

I live near by this area. I also buy honey from Kelley's regularly, but have never seen this abomination. The honey they sell around here is 100% grade a raw unfiltered. It also has nutrition information on the bottle.

ITT:

Americans: I'm so used to being lied to about literally everything that this doesn't seem that bad.

Smh...

Remembering bees get fed corn syrup, started reading & wow:

Honey adulteration using HFCS was especially rampant in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it was virtually impossible for regulators to determine that honey had in fact been adulterated (in some cases up to 80%) with HFCS. This practice was so epidemic that the American Beekeeping Federation developed a program of testing suspect honey samples sent in by beekeepers. This was only possible, however, through the efforts of Dr. Jonathon White, who literally came out of retirement to develop a reasonable testing procedure.

I'm okay with the product itself existing. I mean blah blah Americans put corn syrup in everything sure, you're allowed to buy honey and you're allowed to buy corn syrup, you're allowed to mix them in your own kitchen, I'm okay with this substance being allowed on the store shelf.

"Honey Blend" strikes me as one of those FDA required weasel phrases like "processed whey product" or "beef-related substance". You don't usually see the word "blend" on a honey bear bottle, says something's up.

The ingredients are plainly listed.

The nutrition facts are not; you'd have to lick a stamp to learn them, which I hope isn't legal.

Okay, this is the line that should not be crossed, we should evict Texas.

This is fine, they’re telling you what’s in the bottle. I mean I don’t agree with messing up honey with corn syrup and the fact that the bottle sort of leads you to think you’re getting just honey, but that’s par for the course in a lot of processed food packaging at least in the US.

You might say that Reddit is mostly just high fructose corn syrup, while Lemmy is pure, responsibly sourced honey.

This reminds me of KFC and how they switch from "Honey" to "Honey Sauce".

I got a shock random permaban in one of my preferred niche subs from someone obviously having a bad day and projecting it outwardly. It made me sit up and ask why I was putting up with so much nonsense and abandoned reddit that very moment. I had been dipping my toes into Lemmy but this made me dive in head first.

As a beekeeper of 30 odd years, that hurts

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I'm confused there are no packaging standards in the US. Is the first ingredient the largest? How do you know if there's no percentage given?

How old is that bottle? I looked at their website and they don't even sell this product.

All text in large print, but you have to write them snail mail for the nutritional information, which is required by law to be printed on the label.

I see no problem here. It's very clearly labeled.

I worked a contract job at a honey bottling plant in Mich where they would simply take 55 gallon drums of raw honey from all over the world, dump them into a giant tank, churn it up.... then bottle it. That's was it, nothing more nothing less. At one point in the past they used to add water, but they had stopped when I was installing the new mixing system (it was a patent thing). Makes me shake my head to see companies adding anything else to such a simple operation...

At least it's labelled. Better than China sneaking sugar syrup into the supply chain without being open about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/mar/26/uk-honey-fails-authenticity-test

I would guess the ban came from an overzealous application of the "no personal info" doxxing rule, because that pic has an address on it which is technically a company address, but there ya go, that's my guess. I was banned once for something similar.

Would corn syrup stop it from becoming solid? I love honey but budget mind thinks, "buy bulk" and 1 yr later I have like half a quart left to practice my own tar experiment.

Times like this I'm glad I have not one but two friends who are backyard beekeepers. They are more than happy to give away the enormous amount of honey they collect each year...

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At least the ingredients are being honest. It's a massive problem around the world. They even have insanely sophisticated testing machines that are even fooled sometimes.

"Made with..."

Report them to… I think it’s the FDA that oversees food labels?

They’re violating federal regulations.

ITT: a bunch of stolen bee vomit fetishists. Why pay so much money for something weird, gross, and every bit as unhealthy as sugar and corn syrup? Maple syrup (while also unhealthy) tastes way better. And date sugar, whole blended dates, or molasses are healthier alternatives.

Honey is 95 to 99% a solution of a roughly equal proportion of glucose and fructose with other sugars, pollen etc. making up the remainder. HFCS is a solution of ~50 to 55% fructose with the remainder glucose.

TLDR: honey is essentially HFCS with some pollen and a small amount of other sugars mixed in.

I'm seeing the nutritional value thing, but I don't see what the other comments are talking about...

Look at that, it's a product that is entirely dependent on the idea that no one ever actually reads the label... Sadly this unscrupulous company has probably made a fortune this way

Adulterated honey is a massive issue around the world; at least these people are being honest about it.

That is absolutely revolting.

This is just another day in america, is it not?

Welcome to Lemmy, you don't need to go back to reddit. It gets better here everyday.

Also - do I just put a letter with Kelly Honey Farms in the mail and hope it gets there? A full address would be nice.

all economy of the Empire (aka USA) is a SCAM

it had me worried for a minute: same bear, same colored label, grocery store brand so it could be from anywhere. I had to check. Nope, not Texas. Whew. (Jk, not corn syrup)

Your username may have something to do with it