Why your honey might be fake and what you can do about it
telegraph.co.uknot-so-sweet scandal.According to the Food Fraud Database, it’s in the top three most faked foods in the world, along with olive oil and milk.
It’s not cheap either, so if you like a spoonful of honey stirred into your yogurt or spread on toast, it’s worth knowing where your money is going.There are two main ways that honey is faked.
One is adulteration: added sugar syrup, plus a bit of colouring. It’s perfectly legal as long as it’s made clear on the label, so check the small print – the other day I picked up a tempting urn-shaped jar, only to find that while it was indeed a chunk of real honeycomb, the syrup it was bathed in was a mixture of honey and corn syrup.The other ‘fake’ is real but poor-quality honey passed off as a more expensive kind.
It may contain only some of the honey advertised on the label, blended with a cheaper or heavily heat-treated and filtered variety, so it’s lost its subtlety of flavour.
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