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Adulterated Honey: Not Pure, and Not Simple Either But then, neither is honey
20 November 2023

The available figures on honey adulteration are pretty alarming: 46% of samples in the EU, 100% of honey exported from the UK, more than a quarter of Australian samples “of questionable authenticity”. However, as Matt Phillpott pointed out in a recent episode of Eat This Podcast, one of the great difficulties honey poses is that […]

Honey and Adulteration Follow the Money
13 November 2023

Why is honey the world’s third most-adulterated food? Because adulteration delivers profits.

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