Up to 90% of honey sold in Malaysia is artificial, says expert (www.straitstimes.com)

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[-] Crogdor@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Clickbait title. What the article says is that honey made by Kelulut bees, which is considered a premium product, is being counterfeited by taking regular honey and adding things like vinegar to it to try and make it taste the same.

The honey is still real honey, it’s just not made by Kelulut bees.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

And i was wondering how you would make artificial honey.

[-] venoft@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Apparently its a huge market. You can buy artificial sugar syrup from China that mimics real honey sugars and just dilute your honey with that. In the EU at least the standard honey quality test doesn't detect it so no one knows how much diluted honey there is.

[-] colourednumbers@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-honey/

Does not seem too complicated.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

I don't really eat or like honey, so i wonder what the difference is like. Because ut really seems pretty easy to leave bees alone.

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This article talks about two completely different topics, and didn't give enough detail about either to know what to do with this.

90% of honey is fake, but what is it replaced with? Why are lab tests required? What are the health implications? Is it being exported under fake labels, or is it a domestic problem?

Then, the article switches to talk about the health benefits of honey from "stingless bees". What are stingless bees? How do they relate to "regular" honey bees? Are these bees being studied/grown anywhere else? Why are there health advantages over" "regular" honey?

I could go on. This article doesn't really answer many questions. I'm more confused about this topic than when I read the headline.

[-] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Fascinating!

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