Are most store brand honey fake?

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How do they produce millions of bottles of honey? Simple. They use millions of bees. The US, according to figures from 2013, had 2.64 million bee colonies. Each colony probably has about 50,000 bees, and produces about 66 lbs of honey per year.

If you choose not to believe the labels that say "pure honey" and decide that what's in the jar is not pure honey, feel free to do that. Must be difficult buying food, if you don't believe that what the label says is what you're getting....Show more

Organic honey means that it's not processed except for cleaning it up a bit. It is quite a bit darker than processed honey. Better for you to of course.

I've never seen artificial honey but it would def be labeled as such on the bottle. We have a large group of monks near here that have a LOT of bee hives and make a tremendous amount of honey.

BTW, if you get organic honey you should always get one that's made near you. It will help with allergies to local plants and things.

Also, if you ever see honey popcorn get some. The monks make it and it's sooo good. It's like carmel popcorn only with honey. MMMmmmmmmm...Show more

Honey is really expensive to make. It's cheaper to fake it when lots of people can't tell the difference, even though it's obviously just corn syrup....Show more

A lot of the honey is mixed with corn syrup, which is also sweet and has a similar consistency as honey. It makes it cheaper to produce. Pure, natural honey has no corn syrup in it. It doesn't have to be "organic" though....Show more

If you live in GB, if it is sold as honey it must be honey and made by bees. Anything else would breach the Trade Descriptions Act. Any additives must be declared on the label....Show more