What in the hell? You think this is ok? A honey blend implies a blend of…wait for it… different HONEY.
Not a blend of super cheap and super unhealthy syrup.
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Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 months ago
They say on the bottle that it's a blend so I don't think this is that infuriating. Though if I saw "Texas Honey Blend" I'd assume it's cut with crude oil.
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abracaDavid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
BakerBagel@midwest.social 7 months ago
I have news for you if you think there is a health difference between a teaspoon of corn syrup and a teaspoon of honey. They are both packed full of sugar
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You are being downvoted but HFCS and honey are almost exactly chemically identical. They have to inspect honey farms to make sure it comes from bees since looking at the final product you can’t tell the difference.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 7 months ago
Yeah they are both concentrated sugar extracts. Just because one is made by bees doesn’t make it suddenly not a heaping tablespoon of sugar you’ve just ingested. I eat plenty of honey and molasses but I don’t lie to myself and claim that they are any healthier than corn syrup or simple syrup. They are all just super concentrated fructose and glucose solutions.
Deebster@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I liked when the US National Honey Board funded a study that compared honey, cane sugar, and HFCS and found they’re all about the same (and all raised a key blood fat, a marker for heart disease).
Of course, the truth is that sugar’s sugar and you should have limited amounts of it, but when it’s as cheap a HFCS is in the States, they can stick it in everything.
rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
There is a health difference though …ucsf.edu/the-sweet-science-behind-honey.html
BakerBagel@midwest.social 7 months ago
Trace amounts of proteins and antioxidants, but it’s still an added sugar.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
But honey is natural, corn syrup has chemicals in it!
KISSmyOS@feddit.de 7 months ago
I prefer honey cause I’m no goddamn liberal hippie, so it’s important to me that animals were killed for my food.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 months ago
If it was a bunch of different honeys they would have listed the types on the front of the bottle, I'm sure. The word "Texas" heavily implies that it's made out of something terrible.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It seems not to be as well known as I thought, but most commercial honey sold in the US is not actually honey:
But the honey industry is hiding a secret. There’s a high chance that your store-bought honey is fake. While fake honey usually includes some amount of real honey, it is often mixed with other corn, rice, or sugar cane syrup to reduce its cost. These fillers are far cheaper than raw honey and are used to produce more honey, quicker. In fact, up to 76% of honey sold in the US is not really honey, at least not entirely.
There were a bunch of stories about this several years ago after a minor controversy, but it didn’t stay in the news long, so I guess it fell out of public consciousness.
If you want real honey, you’ll want to buy from small, local dealers.
SexWithDogs@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Maybe just me personally, but if they’re gonna put “blend” on the bottle I’d be more inclined to assume it’s intended as a selling point rather than a begrudging legal requirement.
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If they’re gonna put “blend” on the bottle I’d assume it was honey from different kinds of flowers mixed together, not honey mixed with something else!
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Plus, it says “made with real honey”. That plus it being a blend should have raised an eyebrow to investigate further.
TK420@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s a blend of honey and high fructose corn syrup, what in the ever living fuck is high fructose corn syrup doing in honey? Oh, making more profits by cutting it.
Death to high fructose corn syrup
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 months ago
I can see it being useful if you’re making candy. Different sugars crystallize differently, so it’s not uncommon to mix corn syrup and sugar to get the right ratio.
But they’re also making “pancake syrup” that is corn syrup dyed and flavored to approximate maple syrup which is a crime against nature.
decerian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you’re mixing things up in the kitchen, typically you try to be somewhat precise with ratios.
The difference in this case being that because the actual ratio of the blend is unknown, you don’t actually know how it would crystallize. Technically they could even change up the ratio week to week based on the price of high-fructose corn syrup so you wouldn’t even get consistency from it.
chetradley@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Even brands like log cabin who claim to use “no high fructose corn syrup” are just corn syrup and sugar. There are people who go their entire lives eating pancake syrup and table syrup on their pancakes, and die never having tasted actual maple syrup.
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nobody making candy would every use this pre-blended product; they’d want to combine the two different sugars themselves so they could control the ratio.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Isn’t that what the cheap syrup has always been? IHOP basically built their whole company on it.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Hot take, but it’s not a bad technology. It’s just heavily overused because US farm subsidies.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Eh, too much fructose and your body stops processing it. Fructose doesn’t actually trigger your body to use it, and if you don’t have enough other sugars present, it causes problems. Not an issue in moderation, but high-fructose syrup is used in so many things that it’s a real concern.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
TIL. It sounds like there’s some debate about that, from what I can see, but it is a thing.