Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
I am not surprised. This is what you get when you involve big money in food making and cut corners. Although I am not a big fan of honey I do keep a jar or two at home. I buy them from the beekeeper himself and if you keep it in the right conditions the real honey doesn't spoil. I recently read an artikle about a jar of honey found in an Egyptian tomb, it had lost some of its qualities but it was still edible, this can make you think
Honey simply does not spoil, so the issue of "increasing shelf life" just doesn't makes sense. Honey can crystalize over time, but if you put the jar into a pot of boiling water it will liquify again and is perfectly good.
I don't understand where antibiotics would come from, that could get into honey. Bees are not fed antibiotics, I cannot imagine how one would even try to do that.
How does removing the pollen turn honey into "not honey?"
I think these issues kinda make the original article a little iffy, not sure if someone is trying to push an agenda and might be making some things up?