High Fructose Corn Syrup and Honey – A Sneaky Relationship

i can’t believe they can sell honey like that without telling you how much high fructose corn syrup there is. i also always thought that i was buying pure honey, but i guess there must be some reason why organic honey costs so much more.

I had no idea that this was going on. You opened my eyes to HFCS prevents you from feeling full – our health seems like it is so difficult to stay on top of with so many people out there making products like this.

Thanks for your comments everyone!

@Rick, yes, the book I referenced in my article (above) is by Dr. Mercola – Sweet Deception. He doesn’t list names of the honey manufacturers…it does sound like these are full scale operations since they are keeping the hives under 24-hour hive light, rather than individual bee keepers. I don’t see any reason that he would fabricate this information, especially since this topic takes up less than 2 pages in his entire book.

I’m not familiar with the “honey supers” that you wrote about. In my article I wrote that I learned that the bees are being force fed high fructose corn syrup and other sugars, not honey, and that this honey makes up 2/3 of the total honey production in N.A.

I hope this helps!

@goyin, yes, I didn’t realize this before, either. Like I wrote in my article, I still wouldn’t recommend using 100% pure honey in excess if you have a problem with sugar addiction, but if I were going to buy honey, I’d definitely buy the pure stuff from now on!

@WM, right, mass production to meet the demand. Of course, you could save money by getting off of sugar altogether!

@Louiss, you might be able to find raw honey at Whole Foods, although I’m not sure because I haven’t looked for it there. It’s still sugar (so I wouldn’t use it), but the 100% pure is definitely a better choice if you are using honey!

Hi Adam, I hope you had a Merry Christmas with your family.

I know what you mean, I never knew this about honey until I researched it in Dr. Mercola’s book, and I’ve since found other references to the same topic re: hfcs in honey in the book Sugar Shock! as well as online.

Re: your question on why the bee’s don’t metabolize the hfcs….the bees ingest the nectar that contains the hfcs and they regurgitate it, so it’s not “passing through” the bee’s body and being fully metabolized. Now there are companies that do not feed their bees hfcs, and those are the ones who bottle and sell organic or raw honey. Those are the labels you want to look for in order to avoid the hfcs.

One note on this: if you want to avoid refined sugar, you’ll want to avoid all honey. It actually has a higher sugar content than table sugar. Since I’m addicted to sugar honey isn’t good for me, but if you don’t get sugar cravings and overeat from ingesting refined sugar, then honey might not give you cravings.

You said to tell you if someone finds honey that lists HFCS as an ingredent… well… I found some. It was at a fast food place, I think it was jack in the box or something like that. Either way, it’s on the little packets >>>>LABELED<<<< “Honey” but it actually doesn’t have ANY honey in it. Just HFCS and a carmel coloring, I believe. Crazy stuff. It really ticked me off. I thought I was getting honey and I was totally scammed. I’m seriously tempted to go and start a lawsuit about it, to be honest. I mean, when I go to the store and buy a 5 pound bag of sugar, I don’t expect to have to check the ingredents to make damn sure that it is, indeed, sugar (as it’s labeled and marketed as). If you’re willing to aid me in this lawsuit, please let me know. I’d like to form a small army and make a class action on this. Thanks.

Have you seen the recent TV commercials. The Corn Refiners Association decided to ’show’ high-fructose corn syrup was as safe as sugar.

They’re pretty crazy and I don’t think its safe advertising.