Beekeeper pipes up Was Re: raw honey

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Sharon,

--- In , " Sharon " <sharonz@v...>

wrote:

> Someone pondered the weight of 5 gals of honey. Well, that's highly

> dependent on the moisture content of the honey - it varies up to 11

> lbs., 14 ounces per gallon.

>

=======>Which is the one that weighs more, a gallon with high

moisture content or a gallon with low moisture content?

> told us:

>

> >I react terribly to filtered honey or to eating the pollen after

it's

> been filtered out, ....

>

> Sorry, I just can't understand that. What is your reaction?

=======>I react to filtered honey, and I react to pollen, so it's two

reactions. I described them in Message 30997 (Sat, Oct 11, 2003 4:44

pm). It's not anything strange or mysterious, there are foods that

are extremely high in enzymes (like pollen) that are known to be

irritating to a damaged gut lining. The honey buffers it enough that

I can eat it as a whole food, as long as I don't go overboard,

anyway. Some with greater gut damage than I have cannot even eat

unfiltered honey. When sugars are eaten as they're found in nature,

they tend to come packaged with a collection of nutrients that help

to body to metabolize it without difficulty. The less refined a sugar

is, the less likely a person with blood sugar problems would find it

to be stressful to their body.

I'd really

> like to hear more about it. Do you swell up?

=======>No...not from honey or pollen, anyway.

Breakout?

=======>No...not from anything!

--n