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Bees - honey in Poland [13]
I am reading an article about the problems of Polish honey producers who have to struggle with the cheap import from Ukraine and China.
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Crucial info which you might find useful how to check honey`s quality:
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"Suspicious" honey
There is also another provision on jar labels: honey crystallization is a natural process. Surprisingly, these labels are largely applied to liquid honey, which immediately excludes its "naturalness".
- Honey cannot be liquid if it is natural and genuine. Rapeseed honey crystallizes within five days. Acacia honey lasts the longest. All mature honey should crystallize within four months, explains beekeeper Mikołaj. Other apiary owners also note that we end up buying cheap liquid honey, devoid of nutritional value, which is syrup, i.e. honey adulterated with sugars, and not a quality product from bees.On our kitchen table there are two big jars of honey we bought last summer holiday - both half empty. One is from a local producer who lives in a village next door to us and the other is from a shopping centre. This local one got crystalised quickly and nobody wants to eat it apart from me. The other one is still fully liquid although the label says it comes from a natural Polish producer.
People need to be educated about honey.
