When is honey not honey? When you buy it at an American grocery store, apparently—the majority of honey sold in U.S. supermarkets and drugstores has been*processed into nutritional oblivion, according to Food Safety News. In fact, it's been so ultra-filtered it doesn't even meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's standards to be considered honey. Testing of more than 60s jars, jugs and plastic bears of honey found 76% was entirely free of bee pollen, which is what gives honey many of its vast medicinal and nutritional properties. Any product that's had the pollen filtered completely out of it isn't actually considered honey, according to the FDA. Without the pollen, that honey you're buying is nothing more than sweet-tasting syrup. More »Post from: Blisstree