filtering honey

[Guest guest]

I was wondering if anyone filters their own honey?

I want to use local raw honey to pre-medicate for allergy season.

I don't use honey at all due to yeast issues but I figure this may help me from

needing strong medications that in the long run also bother my gut. I think

trying this would be the lesser of the evils for -me-. The reason filtered honey

is not technically raw is because it is heated usually way above 140 F. If I

follow the raw food guide and I don't heat above 114 degrees F or something like

that- than all the therapeutic enzymes and properties that I need for allergy

season will hopefully still be in the honey. It is also wildly unhealthy to

heat raw honey.

So the bee guy told me today that if I let raw honey sit all the wax will float

to the top- and my husband should eat that. The rest of the honey does look

very clear- clear like filtered honey. Is this something I should not take a

chance with eating as it wasn't commercially filtered? If so, I can filter it

on my own using some mild heat and then run it through a cheese cloth. Do you

think this will be adequate for the SCD? Would it be considered legal?

Thanks!!

PS. I am very picky when it comes to buying honey and after learning about the

filtration process really makes me raise my brow and wonder how the %2 rule must

factor into this one.

Jodi

[Guest guest]

Hmmm...I've been eating raw local honey for the last 3 months. Is that bad? It

doesn't have any honeycomb or anything in it. The desert honey I bought looks as

clear as pasteurized honey. The orange blossom (from the same beekeepers) isn't

though. It's very thick, but that could be because it was the last of the honey

from last season (new orange blossom honey won't be available till May or June).

My mesquite honey (different beekeepers) is also pretty thick, and it also has

some little dark specks in it. I never thought about it before, but maybe the

specks are bee pollen? This is a conundrum, as I've been tolerating the honey

fine.

I have found it helpful for my allergies. I haven't had the itchies yet this

spring, and plants have been blooming for a month or so (I live in Arizona).

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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> I was wondering if anyone filters their own honey?

> I want to use local raw honey to pre-medicate for allergy season.

> I don't use honey at all due to yeast issues but I figure this may help me

from needing strong medications that in the long run also bother my gut. I

think trying this would be the lesser of the evils for -me-. The reason filtered

honey is not technically raw is because it is heated usually way above 140 F.

If I follow the raw food guide and I don't heat above 114 degrees F or something

like that- than all the therapeutic enzymes and properties that I need for

allergy season will hopefully still be in the honey. It is also wildly

unhealthy to heat raw honey.

>

> So the bee guy told me today that if I let raw honey sit all the wax will

float to the top- and my husband should eat that. The rest of the honey does

look very clear- clear like filtered honey. Is this something I should not take

a chance with eating as it wasn't commercially filtered? If so, I can filter it

on my own using some mild heat and then run it through a cheese cloth. Do you

think this will be adequate for the SCD? Would it be considered legal?

>

> Thanks!!

> PS. I am very picky when it comes to buying honey and after learning about the

filtration process really makes me raise my brow and wonder how the %2 rule must

factor into this one.

>

> Jodi

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