Raw Honey

[Bruski-101]

Yes i prefer it, as i've replaced sugar with honey several years ago and feel much better for it.

 

[Corny]

is there NOT raw honey ?

 

[jubalon]

I have never encountered the term raw honey, but I'm pretty sure that the honey I use is pretty decent. I get it through my grandfather who has a friend that produces honey in a small farm some place on the Norwegian countryside. It's by far the best and most natural-tasting honey I've tried.

 

[3nipples]

That's the only type of honey we have.

 

[Fire]

is there NOT raw honey ?

Americans are obsessed with pasteurization, or rather with "cleanliness" in general--especially if it's just the impression of being clean (read: germ-free).

Hence air sanitizers, antibacterial soaps, blemish-free but inedible produce, supertoxic lawn care chemicals, disposable everything, pasteurized milk/beer/honey, circumcision, etc.

 

[versatastic]

fermented raw honey is also great

 

[Lube]

Americans are obsessed with pasteurization, or rather with "cleanliness" in general--especially if it's just the impression of being clean (read: germ-free).

Hence air sanitizers, antibacterial soaps, blemish-free but inedible produce, supertoxic lawn care chemicals, disposable everything, pasteurized milk/beer/honey, circumcision, etc.

Ain't that the truth.

Plus you must cook your meat until it is charred, black, dry, and tasteless. Wouldn't want a single bacterium in them thar steaks, would we?

Yum!

 

[buddy1970]

Dr. Timothy Brantley says that you should eat everything raw. He says to stay away from sugar, though. If you're going to eat it, you should eat it raw.

It makes sense to me. Nature makes our food raw, so we should eat it raw. I'm trying to do that as much as possible.

Raw bee spit. Mmmmmmm....

 

[blankslate]

Keep raw honey away from infants. It could give them botulism and they could die.

 

[looseliam]

Honey isn't raw. It's already digested.

 

[versatastic]

wow their must be some awesome health benefits to fermented raw honey.

I dunno too much about it, but it helps digestion better than regular raw honey and it's used to make mead, a very tasty beer. My great grandma uses it to make very tasty bread.

 

[Corny]

Keep raw honey away from infants. It could give them botulism and they could die.

It says that on every jar of honey here.

 

[Fucker29]

Dr. Timothy Brantley says that you should eat everything raw. He says to stay away from sugar, though. If you're going to eat it, you should eat it raw.

It makes sense to me. Nature makes our food raw, so we should eat it raw. I'm trying to do that as much as possible.

Raw bee spit. Mmmmmmm....

That's so...what's the technical term? Oh yeah...fucking boring!

Well...to me anyway.



I like honey. I have no idea if the honey I have here at home is raw or not but I like it. Oh and when you're going through some throat issues (infection, flu or just hoarseness) honey with tea or honey with lemon (natural lemon juice...squeeze the lemon, then add the honey) does wonders for your throat.

 

[buddy1970]

That's so...what's the technical term? Oh yeah...fucking boring!

You're absolutely right. It is boring. But raw sugar still tastes like sugar, so I can at least recommend that. (I still eat plenty of cooked food, though. Switching to all raw foods if very hard. And, like you said, boring.)

 

[dunno260]

The raw food new craze thing is just stupid (in general). I read one article that talks about not wanting to denature any of the proteins in what you eat by cooking them. I can't think of a single protein that the body actually uses that it doesn't synthesize itself. And for protein synthesis, you have to first break down any protein into the constituent amino acids. And it also presents a fairly naive view of the digestive system and the environment. But that applies to things like meat and the like. That guys website just screams giant hoax as well (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence which he doesn't have). To be fair, cooking can really mess up the nutritional value of foods depending on the method employed and what various nutrients you are talking about.

As for raw honey, I have had some that I have really liked. I didn't find it that much better than some of the various "mass market" honey's for what I was doing. Although I don't go through a ton of honey anyways. I did have some chocolate type raw honey that was incredibly rich and delicious and awesome, but it was one of those thing that was so potent that it was tough to find a way to truly enjoy it. Though you can certainly get some amazing subtle flavors when you use a type of honey for the sugar component of a dish.