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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    1673 months ago

    They say on the bottle that it’s a blend so I don’t think this is that infuriating. Though if I saw “Texas Honey Blend” I’d assume it’s cut with crude oil.

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    • @TK420@lemmy.world
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      943 months ago

      It’s a blend of honey and high fructose corn syrup, what in the ever living fuck is high fructose corn syrup doing in honey? Oh, making more profits by cutting it.

      Death to high fructose corn syrup

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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        343 months ago

        I can see it being useful if you’re making candy. Different sugars crystallize differently, so it’s not uncommon to mix corn syrup and sugar to get the right ratio.

        But they’re also making “pancake syrup” that is corn syrup dyed and flavored to approximate maple syrup which is a crime against nature.

        • @decerian@lemmy.world
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          253 months ago

          If you’re mixing things up in the kitchen, typically you try to be somewhat precise with ratios.

          The difference in this case being that because the actual ratio of the blend is unknown, you don’t actually know how it would crystallize. Technically they could even change up the ratio week to week based on the price of high-fructose corn syrup so you wouldn’t even get consistency from it.

        • @chetradley@lemmy.world
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          153 months ago

          Even brands like log cabin who claim to use “no high fructose corn syrup” are just corn syrup and sugar. There are people who go their entire lives eating pancake syrup and table syrup on their pancakes, and die never having tasted actual maple syrup.

        • @grue@lemmy.world
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          73 months ago

          I can see it being useful if you’re making candy. Different sugars crystallize differently, so it’s not uncommon to mix corn syrup and sugar to get the right ratio.

          Nobody making candy would every use this pre-blended product; they’d want to combine the two different sugars themselves so they could control the ratio.

          • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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            43 months ago

            Yeah, I was commenting on the notion of mixing honey with corn syrup generally, not this shit.

            Though I’m sure there’s a bunch of old ladies in Texas who have recipes on old, yellowed card stock that call for this.

        • Tlaloc_Temporal
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          13 months ago

          Eh, too much fructose and your body stops processing it. Fructose doesn’t actually trigger your body to use it, and if you don’t have enough other sugars present, it causes problems. Not an issue in moderation, but high-fructose syrup is used in so many things that it’s a real concern.

          • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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            TIL. It sounds like there’s some debate about the severity of that, from what I can see, but it is a thing.

            • Tlaloc_Temporal
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              13 months ago

              Yeah, just about any diet will have enough other carbs to work, but if all you eat is white bread and pepsi, that will be another issue with your diet.

    • @abracaDavid@lemmy.world
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      203 months ago

      What in the hell? You think this is ok? A honey blend implies a blend of…wait for it… different HONEY.

      Not a blend of super cheap and super unhealthy syrup.

      • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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        It seems not to be as well known as I thought, but most commercial honey sold in the US is not actually honey:

        But the honey industry is hiding a secret. There’s a high chance that your store-bought honey is fake. While fake honey usually includes some amount of real honey, it is often mixed with other corn, rice, or sugar cane syrup to reduce its cost. These fillers are far cheaper than raw honey and are used to produce more honey, quicker. In fact, up to 76% of honey sold in the US is not really honey, at least not entirely.

        There were a bunch of stories about this several years ago after a minor controversy, but it didn’t stay in the news long, so I guess it fell out of public consciousness.

        If you want real honey, you’ll want to buy from small, local dealers.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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        -33 months ago

        If it was a bunch of different honeys they would have listed the types on the front of the bottle, I’m sure. The word “Texas” heavily implies that it’s made out of something terrible.

      • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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        -83 months ago

        I have news for you if you think there is a health difference between a teaspoon of corn syrup and a teaspoon of honey. They are both packed full of sugar

        • @SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world
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          83 months ago

          You are being downvoted but HFCS and honey are almost exactly chemically identical. They have to inspect honey farms to make sure it comes from bees since looking at the final product you can’t tell the difference.

          • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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            63 months ago

            Yeah they are both concentrated sugar extracts. Just because one is made by bees doesn’t make it suddenly not a heaping tablespoon of sugar you’ve just ingested. I eat plenty of honey and molasses but I don’t lie to myself and claim that they are any healthier than corn syrup or simple syrup. They are all just super concentrated fructose and glucose solutions.

            • @kofe@lemmy.world
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              13 months ago

              I thought the “benefits” to honey were kinda more for kids >1 so they can be exposed to different types of pollen. I dunno if it actually helps with immunity to allergies in the same way, but iirc it’s similar with peanuts. Kids exposed to them young are much less likely to develop allergies to them

              • @BakerBagel@midwest.social
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                13 months ago

                That makes sense at first glance, but it’s not true when you think about it for a bit. People have allergic reactto grasses and trees that broadcast spawn their pollen all over the place. Bees collect nectar from flowering plants and spread pollen around that way. Plants only choose one over the other since they are both very resource intensive mating strategies. No one is allergic to lillac, but plenty of people are allergic to ragweed.

          • Deebster
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            I liked when the US National Honey Board funded a study that compared honey, cane sugar, and HFCS and found they’re all about the same (and all raised a key blood fat, a marker for heart disease).

            Of course, the truth is that sugar’s sugar and you should have limited amounts of it, but when it’s as cheap as HFCS is in the States, they can stick it in everything.

          • @KISSmyOS@feddit.de
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            23 months ago

            I prefer honey cause I’m no goddamn liberal hippie, so it’s important to me that animals were killed for my food.

    • @SexWithDogsOP
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      Maybe just me personally, but if they’re gonna put “blend” on the bottle I’d be more inclined to assume it’s intended as a selling point rather than a begrudging legal requirement.

      Many thanks.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        83 months ago

        If they’re gonna put “blend” on the bottle I’d assume it was honey from different kinds of flowers mixed together, not honey mixed with something else!

    • TragicNotCute
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      63 months ago

      Plus, it says “made with real honey”. That plus it being a blend should have raised an eyebrow to investigate further.