Honey, I have a question about honey.

[Guest guest]

K. Oland, or someone, was mentioning that honey can potentially be

glutaminated.

Please clarify for my any issues about honey.

To me it's as opaque as the citric acid issues.

I thought honey came from bees, and didn't know it had any other source.

Can you please explain to me why some honey is problematic?

Thanks!!

[Guest guest]

Yes, I need to know this too as we eat lots of honey here...

I just checked this big jug of Honey I got at Walmart (Walmart's Great Value Clover Honey) and guesss what-- it says Gluten-Free right on the label, imagine that!! I didn't even look when I bought it because I didn't know honey could have gluten.

:-) in VA

Honey, I have a question about honey.

K. Oland, or someone, was mentioning that honey can potentially beglutaminated. Please clarify for my any issues about honey.To me it's as opaque as the citric acid issues.I thought honey came from bees, and didn't know it had any other source. Can you please explain to me why some honey is problematic? Thanks!!

[Guest guest]

Along the subject of " gluten-free " labels, at Wal-Mart today, I was

looking for some creamer (dry) to add to my coffee, and found a latte

creations that has " gluten-free " label right on it LOL my first gf

happy dance, oh yeah I work at the one I was shopping at, so now I

have witnesses who know me and see me practically everyday so I'm sure

I'll hear about that

Angie

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> Yes, I need to know this too as we eat lots of honey here...

> I just checked this big jug of Honey I got at Walmart (Walmart's

Great Value Clover Honey) and guesss what-- it says Gluten-Free right

on the label, imagine that!! I didn't even look when I bought it

because I didn't know honey could have gluten.

> :-) in VA

>

> Honey, I have a question about honey.

>

>

> K. Oland, or someone, was mentioning that honey can potentially be

> glutaminated.

>

> Please clarify for my any issues about honey.

>

> To me it's as opaque as the citric acid issues.

>

> I thought honey came from bees, and didn't know it had any other

source.

>

> Can you please explain to me why some honey is problematic?

>

> Thanks!!

>

[Guest guest]

Must have been someone else - honey is from nectar, gluten grasses dno't

have any and have no pollen the bees would collect (they are wind

pollinated, grown in huge fields where the bees would starve if set out, as

they spray all the weeds to kill them), even if the pollen contained any

gluten (which it doesn't).

If someone were to adulterate the honey by adding something else, of course,

anything goes (although most cases of this that are uncovered in the US

involved high fructose corn syrup).

Citric acid, tho, is made either from extraction from citrus products

(rarely, this is the expensive way) or by growing on a starch (fromm a

single cell organism that excretes citric acid, just as alcohols and

vinegars are made). In the US, corn starch is almost always used (it's

cheap). In asian and EU countries, wheat starch is almost always used (cheap

again). The question is: is there enough gluten remaining in the citric

acid to matter (since it was grown on starch, with most protein removed, and

the critters consume nearly all of what they are grown on, further reducing

any protein that remains).

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> K. Oland, or someone, was mentioning that honey can potentially be

> glutaminated.

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