Honey can only be made by bees. However, what’s labelled as honey in our supermarkets isn’t always pure. It could be mixed with other sugars such as corn syrup or rice syrup. While fake honey is not necessarily harmful to our health, it is a threat to beekeepers’ livelihoods.
“It makes us feel bad, as beekeepers who love our job, because this kind of honey creates unfair competition in the market, as it reaches very low prices that traditional beekeeping cannot compete with,” says food detective Julio Fernández Lópe
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