We shouldn't eat honey!

People have known about the healing properties of honey for a long time.
Great for sore throats.

no it isnt
www.verywellhealth.com/honey-vs-sugar-11825483

Yes but it has positive properties that refined sugar does not have.

Isn't honey almost pure sugar?

I buy local honey (from a family in the next village). The only supermarket honey I’ve bought in the last decade or so is single-apiary honey from M&S.

Piffle! Destroying the countryside is what is harming the eco system. Schools need to teach about how nature works. I don't think this government understands how vital plants and trees are. Honey was used before we discovered sugar, it's a perfectly natural food.

Here's more information about native bees, and you can even get a Bee Saver Kit.
Friends of the Earth The Bee Cause

Can I just bring up again the problems our wild native bees are having as mentioned in the OP.

I also found the following:
Native wild bees in the UK are in severe decline, with 35 bee species under threat of extinction and 13 species already lost. Around one-third of pollinator species have declined since 1980, with about a quarter of British wild bees showing long-term decline due to habitat loss, intensive farming, and pesticides.

So can you do anything to help our native bees? If you watch the programme My Garden of a Thousand Bees you'll see a magical place full of wild flowers and pieces of wood with holes (they love holes of course). It looks very much like I imagined a fairy garden as a child.

I just hope anyone with a garden can recreate that, even if just in a tiny corner of their garden.

Maple syrup is a good substitute for honey in lots of recipes.

Horrible stuff with a yucky flavour but not too bad if you mix it with soy sauce.

The honey I’m using currently comes from beehives that sit on the Scottish mountainside all summer. When I open the jar, the scent of a Scottish hillside covered in gorse and heather comes flooding out - it’s glorious. I don’t use much honey, a jar a year at best, unless I bake with it. The beekeepers had 55kilos of honey last year - they were giving it to all and sundry!

I'm sure we don't need sugar and sweet things.

Unfortunately, I like them, but don't take sugar in tea or coffee.

Allira, I don’t eat fruits unfortunately as they set off IBS but I eat a lemon every day as they don’t affect me negatively. I do eat every kind of vegetable and love them all.

Allsorts

I won't buy cheap honey, it's now being imported from China and sold for less than a pound a jar by a certain supermarket known for its cheap prices. I buy mine from a local supplier, as I have allergies and just have a little each day, a jar that costs me 10.00 lasts me for ages. Won't buy cheap meat either, you can imagine how animals are treated to produce it, I would rather eat less meat and bulk it out with lentils or mixed beans or go veggie. I look at trolleys full of processed food and boxes of cakes and crisps, such a waste of money that could be spent on good food.

TK Maxx often has lovely, organic honeys from Greece and Italy.

I won't buy cheap honey, it's now being imported from China and sold for less than a pound a jar by a certain supermarket known for its cheap prices. I buy mine from a local supplier, as I have allergies and just have a little each day, a jar that costs me 10.00 lasts me for ages. Won't buy cheap meat either, you can imagine how animals are treated to produce it, I would rather eat less meat and bulk it out with lentils or mixed beans or go veggie. I look at trolleys full of processed food and boxes of cakes and crisps, such a waste of money that could be spent on good food.

Don’t like honey, happy to leave it to the bees.

Unfortunately my mum, a lifelong, avid nature lover, has developed an incredibly sweet tooth as her dementia has progressed, 4 spoonfuls in every cup of tea or coffee. Don’t think I’ll be able to dissuade her 🥺

but my family worry because I rarely eat anything sweet

I don't think we need sugar or sweet foods and drinks.
You are probably getting all the sugars you need from fruits etc.

I'll take a bet your teeth are better than most people's of your age!

I really don’t like honey but my family worry because I rarely eat anything sweet. My husband buys me very expensive honey from the Yemen and I have to say that it’s bearable with some Greek yoghurt but would much prefer a curry or chilli con carne.
My mum also worried about my lack of eating sugar. We lived in Trinidad for a while and went through the sugar cane fields. A beautiful sight and for me it’s a vegetable not something to dismiss.
Today I ate a Gu coffee caramel pudding but gave up after about four mouthful. It had no sugar and was tasteless.
My favourite pudding is golden syrup sponge and because I never eat sugar I smother it with golden syrup. When I go sweet I go really sweet.
Yemen honey is recommended by me if you’re a fan.

I like to buy local honey and, if anyone suffers from hayfever, it will, anecdotally, help alleviate symptoms.

OH is a beekeeper and sells his honey locally. It is delicious.

I live in a fairly rural area where there are several beekeepers to choose from. There is a discernible difference in taste and consistency from keeper to keeper even in a smallish area. I stir a little into Greek yogurt. I know it’s expensive but much better than supermarket “honey”.

I have my source of locally produced honey .
It's an important part of my diet.

I'm getting more fussy with my diet - I can't tolerate some foods anymore and other foods make me nauseated .
I don't want to end up like my mother,who was a nightmare to feed .

Clover honey and Acacia honey are just delicious 😋

I only buy local honey not commercially produced ones. I read that a lot of supermarket so called honeys are made in China from liquified sugar - yuck!

Sorry, forgot to post the link

www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/09/nine-in-ten-honey-samples-from-uk-retailers-fail-authenticity-test