Would you spend over £30 on a jar of honey?

[JTG]

Manuka is Arabic for your mum shags around and likes it.

Your mum is Arabic for your mum shags around and likes it

 

[Pingu]

i am not into alternative medicines (or as i like to call them "hippy shit") but...

real doctors and vets have said to put manuka honey onto wounds as it has proven antibacterial properties. it has to be the good stuff though to work properly

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

i am not into alternative medicines (or as i like to call them "hippy shit") but...

real doctors and vets have said to put manuka honey onto wounds as it has proven antibacterial properties. it has to be the good stuff though to work properly

You're into Big Pharma?

 

[Pingu]

You're into Big Pharma?

i am a firm believer in that the various herbs, poultices and stuff that worked best are now generally known as "medicine" and that collidial silver etc are known as "bollocks"

 

[Pickman's model]

i would pay £30 for a jar of honey. a big jar of honey.

 

[Supine]

A 20+ rating is high for manuka. Get something with a lower rating and it will be cheaper. Although possibly not as effective if your trying to use it to cure something.

 

[fractionMan]

A 20+ rating is high for manuka. Get something with a lower rating and it will be cheaper. Although possibly not as effective if your trying to use it to cure something.

"rating".

What does that mean?

 

[treefrog]

How much manuka is actually in it IIRC. You can lead a bee to extremely profitable plants but you can't always make them drink.

 

[Supine]

It's the amount of anti microbial activity achieved and depends on how much manuka the bees have got busy with.

 

[Pickman's model]

"rating".

What does that mean?

is it the navy equivalent of a private?

 

[fractionMan]

£1

 

[Supine]

27p

Makes your toast soggy though

 

[fractionMan]

Makes your toast soggy though

Thick Bleach?

I've changed it for the more tasty version.

 

[Cid]

I bet there are people happily munching away on Manuka honey while they sip at Yakult.

 

[friendofdorothy]

The Manuka 10+ honey I had was ok - I had it in honey & lemon drinks when I was poorly - but the person who had given it to me as a gift kept saying I should just eat it by the spoonful - which I didn't. You wouldn't know it was so special if it wasn't for the price.

For taste I love the greek mountain honey that is from Thyme flowers, its almost savoury yum, but haven't had that in ages, it used to be cheap enough in Greece but that was ages ago. Now I normally buy my honey in Lidl - £1.50 ish or Poundland.

 

[geminisnake]

You want lavender essential oil for minor burns. Works absolute wonders - I always have a bottle in the kitchen as I'm partial to inadvertently trying to barbecue my hands. And it smells nice.

Please tell me you are applying the lavender AFTER you've run the burn under cold water. Tbh Aloe gel is ace for burns.
I wouldn't spend £30 on a jar of honey that size. I'd spend up to about £10 though because ime it has beneficial healing properties. Anything less than 10+ is a waste of time though.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Please tell me you are applying the lavender AFTER you've run the burn under cold water. Tbh Aloe gel is ace for burns.
I wouldn't spend £30 on a jar of honey that size. I'd spend up to about £10 though because ime it has beneficial healing properties. Anything less than 10+ is a waste of time though.

Once a year they sell fresh Aloe vera leaves in Brixton Market - I bought one cut it up into small pieces and put it in the freezer it's great for cooling / soothing small burns.

 

[geminisnake]

Lidl sometimes sell the plant(probably loads of other places do too). It's very easy to keep and you can just break a bit off when needed

 

[Mogden]

If I thought it was worth £30 and it would do what I needed it to do I would. So many people these days only know the price of an item and not the value of it. I've no qualms, when I am able, paying more for certain foodstuffs if they give me more enjoyment and a little of it sates me rather than filling my belly with rubbish and finding myself peeved and still hungry.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

How about spending £60 on a manuka honey candle? I bet some people here would do that.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

More manuka honey is sold than is actually produced.

More honey, in general, is sold than is produced. Its also the same with olive oil.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Apparently Preperation H is good for eye bags and wrinkles

Is that Manuka stuff not for crumpets then?

People here swear that Mane and Tail shampoo is far superior to salon shampoos.

Bag Balm (udder cream) is also good for wrinkles.

 

[Callum91]

I have, yes. I've spent £30 on worse things, too. All relative innit?

 

[Maggot]

More honey, in general, is sold than is produced. Its also the same with olive oil.

How can you sell more of something than you produce?

 

[ska invita]

HOney is one of the things i happily buy no frills ones of - i can taste no difference between them.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

HOney is one of the things i happily buy no frills ones of - i can taste no difference between them.

The bad news with cheap honey is it's full of antibiotics, and the bees have been fed on corn syrup.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Vaughn Bryant, an anthropology professor at Texas A&M and a melissopalynologist ― someone who studies the pollen in honey ― tested honey samples from grocery and big box stores, farmers markets, and natural food and drug stores around the country and found more than 75 percent of the honey being sold has all of the pollen filtered out, according to Food Safety News, which sponsored the study.
“Large importing companies take all the pollen out of honey because they claim it makes the honey clearer and prevents crystallization, therefore making it easier to sell,” Bryant explains. “However, by removing the pollen, you also remove clues needed to verify where the honey was produced and what nectar sources are dominant. This means that with no traces of pollen, honey sellers can take cheap honey and claim it’s a type that sells for a premium price.”
Certain types of premium honey can sell for upwards of $50 a jar, and this high price has opened the door for honey fraud.
The FDA doesn’t require pollen in honey sold in the U.S., Bryant says, so importers are free to remove it. “This makes it possible for some companies to buy cheap honey with no pollen and there are no clues to know where it comes from,” he asserts.

http://tamutimes.tamu.edu/2013/07/2...ers-bad-for-consumers-says-prof/#.U41YRm9OWpo

The rules might be different in Europe.

 

[ska invita]

The bad news with cheap honey is it's full of antibiotics, and the bees have been fed on corn syrup.

is that right? I dont eat honey anyway tbh, only occasionally buy it for guests!
will look for a link on this, sounds a bit nasty

 

[DotCommunist]

How can you sell more of something than you produce?

you sell inferior/ersatz product under the label of the real thing

 

[Greebo]

How can you sell more of something than you produce?

Adulteration - extra virgin olive oil is often diluted with lower grades of olive oil, and sometimes even other nut or seed oils. For the same reason that you get the purest refined cocaine close to the source but hardly ever see it anything like that quality over this side of the Atlantic.

The same goes for honey (single source eg heather honey is always more expensive than mixed honey) and maple syrup (often diluted with other syrups, water, fructose etc) always check every bit of the label before buying.